Cycling group prepares for Tour de Champaign this weekend

As the only cycling group in the area, Wild Card Cycling ride year-round.

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Cyclists Prepare for Local Race
Relatives go to Ill. cemetery looking for answers

A constant stream of relatives hoping to find their loved ones showed up Saturday as officials exhumed one grave in a cemetery where four former employees are accused of digging up and dumping hundreds of bodies in a scheme to resell plots.

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7/11/2009 - 9:30 PM    Post your comment
Crisis Nursery in Urbana celebrates 25th anniversary

Amid gardens and tricycles1,200 multi-colored pinwheels filled colored buckets in the back of Crisis Nursery in Urbana Thursday.

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CIA Director terminated secret program

CIA Director Leon Panetta has terminated a "very serious" covert program the spy agency kept secret from Congress for eight years, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a House Intelligence subcommittee chairwoman, said Friday.

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News

Cemetery workers made $300K in gruesome gravedigging scheme

ALSIP, Ill. — Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300,000 in a scheme believed to have stretched back at least four years, authorities said Friday.

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Budget cuts lead to loss of jobs, programs

Illinois lawmakers have cut social services funding in the face of overwhelming budget deficits, forcing local agencies to cut jobs and eliminate programs. Developmental Services Center in Champaign, which serves children and adults with disabilities, has been directly affected.

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Sports

Cardinals add on to successful road trip

MILWAUKEE — Joel Pineiro trusts his sinking fastball again, and that is making all the difference this season.

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Diversions

Artist sculpting NASCAR racer in chocolate

For more than a week, artists have been holed up in an Elgin warehouse creating, in chocolate, a life-size replica of the No. 18 Toyota Camry "M&M" car driven by Kyle Busch in chocolate.

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FIT examines political fashion's style statements

The "Fashion and Politics" exhibit at FIT showcases the role of politics and social movements in clothing design.

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