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University student stabbed while visiting Rome
8:35 PM 4/8/2007 — ROME - A school spokesman says a University student from Park Ridge was stabbed with an umbrella during an altercation in Italy and remains hospitalized in Rome.
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Records show 98 percent of illegal border-crossers are never prosecuted
1:53 PM 4/6/2007 — EL PASO, Texas- For all the tough talk out of Washington on immigration, illegal immigrants caught along the Mexican border have almost no reason to fear they will be prosecuted.
Ninety-eight percent of those arrested between Oct. 1, 2000, and Sept. 30, 2005, were never prosecuted for illegally entering the country, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data.
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Blagojevich's tax plan supports health care
12:13 AM 4/6/2007 — DANVILLE - On the fourth day of a bus tour promoting his "Investing in Families" tax plan, Gov. Rod Blagojevich made a stop at the Laura Lee Fellowship House in Danville Thursday evening.
The tax plan uses gross receipts to identify businesses that earn $2 million or more in in-state sales per year and taxes those businesses accordingly.
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Climate report predicts poorest will suffer most from global warming changes
1:05 PM 4/6/2007 — BRUSSELS, Belgium- The world faces increased hunger and water shortages in the poorest countries, massive floods and avalanches in Asia, and species extinction unless nations adapt to climate change and halt its progress, according to a report approved Friday by an international conference on global warming.
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Disney opens Fairy Tale Wedding service to gay couples
1:28 PM 4/6/2007 — LOS ANGELES- Same-sex couples who want to exchange vows in front of Cinderella's Castle now have the chance.
The Walt Disney Co. had limited its Fairy Tale Wedding program to couples with valid marriage licenses, but it is now making ceremonies at its parks available to gay couples as well.
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Creator demands Chief logo back from Board of Trustees
11:09 PM 4/5/2007 — CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The man who created the circular, orange-and-blue Chief Illiniwek logo for the University of Illinois 27 years ago wants it back.
But the University's board of trustees, which decided in February to retire the long-controversial Chief symbol, said last week that it would retain ownership of the logo, even though it had voted March 13 to stop using the Chief's image, name and regalia.
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FBI agent shot to death in gunfight with robbers
12:10 AM 4/6/2007 — READINGTON, N.J. - An FBI agent was killed in a shootout with three bank robbery suspects Thursday in north central New Jersey, a law enforcement official said. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the agent's family had not been told of his death, said the agent was alive when brought to University Hospital in Newark by helicopter, but efforts to save him failed.
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University to partner with bank for ATM card
12:00 AM 4/6/2007 — A young girl carefully places cash, a credit card, driver's license and her University i-card in the various pockets of her jeans before heading out for the night. She must find space for everything she would normally fit into a purse. But soon, students at the University could have a few less items to cram into their pockets and purses.
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Students to observe Good Friday on the Quad
11:11 PM 4/5/2007 — James Becker has to get in the zone. The sophomore in LAS concentrates, trying to drown out the crowd around him and focus his mind at the task at hand. But Becker does not pick up a football or basketball. He lifts a 60-pound cross onto his shoulder, and with a crown of sharp thorns on his head, he begins a slow walk through the events that preceded the death of Jesus Christ.
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Rate of younger college students increasing
1:07 AM 5/6/2008 — A new trend has begun to emerge with high school students: going to college early. Click on the icon to hear The Daily Illini's Sydney Langford bring you more on the story.
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Police tip students on how to stay safe
8:30 PM 4/8/2007 — One week after a string of robberies hit the campus area, law enforcement officials are encouraging students to maintain safe practices. The first four of five armed robberies on campus occurred early Saturday morning as revelers from Friday night's bar scene headed home.
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Militia activities lead to casualties in Iraq
11:07 PM 4/5/2007 — BAGHDAD - The U.S. military reported Thursday that eight U.S. soldiers were killed in the Baghdad area over the past three days as militants fought back against a security plan in its eighth week.
An Army helicopter went down south of the capital, wounding four, after an Iraqi official said insurgents fired on it.
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