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City Council to vote on $300 million campus development
8:32 PM 5/20/2008 — The Champaign City Council will be deciding the future of the University District at its meeting Tuesday night.
The University District Action Plan, which will be presented to the Council for approval, provides the framework for some of the strategies and plans the city of Champaign will implement in the coming years.
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Parkland Pathway to assist transfer students get to UI
2:11 PM 5/20/2008 — In an effort to facilitate the experience of transfer students, the University has launched a dual-admissions program in conjunction with Parkland Community College. Starting in fall, the Parkland Pathway to Illinois program will admit 60 registered Parkland students in total to the University's colleges of Engineering, ACES and FAA.
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Federal aid uncertain for flooded areas of Ill.
5:31 PM 5/20/2008 — Officials from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be in southern Illinois this week to reassess the water damage to homes and businesses from flooding caused by heavy rains in March. The damage was first examined by both agencies soon after the flooding, but much of the damage could not be quantified because there were buildings still underwater.
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Brain cancer yields grim diagnosis for Sen. Kennedy
2:50 PM 5/20/2008 — BOSTON - A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics' most enduring figures.
"He remains in good spirits and full of energy," the doctors for the 76-year-old Massachusetts Democrat said in a statement.
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BP scorned for refinery expansion
11:23 PM 5/19/2008 — SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Three environmental groups are trying to stop BP from continuing its expansion of an oil refinery along Lake Michigan, contending in an appeal to the state Monday that an air permit granted to the company was improperly granted.
The Natural Resources Defense Council filed the appeal with the Indiana Office of Environmental Adjudication on behalf of the Save the Dunes Council, the Sierra Club's Hoosier chapter, the Hoosier Environmental Council and two Lake County residents.
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UI vending machines burglarized
2:01 PM 5/20/2008 — Two reports of burglarized vending machines in University buildings were added Monday to the University Police Department's list of similar crimes since the end of March.
Money was removed from seven machines between March 31 and Monday. Five of those burglaries occurred before May 4.
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Senators ask Energy Department to continue funding FutureGen
11:47 PM 5/19/2008 — ST. LOUIS - The senior U.S. senators from Illinois and Missouri pressed anew Monday for the Energy Department to hold off on plans to scuttle its deal with an alliance of big power and coal companies to build a nearly emissions-free power plant.
Sens. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, and Kit Bond, a Missouri Republican, urged Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman in a letter to continue funding the project known as FutureGen into March of next year, allowing the next president to consider its fate.
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NASA's latest robot to explore ice reservoir beneath surface of Mars
2:08 PM 5/20/2008 — LOS ANGELES - Like a miner prospecting for gold, NASA hopes its latest robot to Mars hits pay dirt when it lands Sunday near the red planet's north pole to conduct a 90-day digging mission.
The three-legged Phoenix Mars lander fitted with a backhoe arm is zeroing in on the unexplored arctic region where a reservoir of ice is believed to lie beneath the Martian surface.
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Urbana creates public arts plan
2:51 PM 5/20/2008 — The Urbana City Council passed a motion Monday night establishing the city's Public Arts Plan.
The plan, effective from 2008-2009, will facilitate various forms of art, be it music, sculpting, murals and television, all over the city.
"This is the time to announce this to student artists," said Danielle Chynoweth, Ward 2 Council member.
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Presidential candidates vie for delegates' votes
2:09 PM 5/20/2008 — WASHINGTON - Barack Obama will reach a significant milestone Tuesday as he marches toward the Democratic nomination for president - a majority of pledged delegates at stake in all the primaries and caucuses.
Obama will still be short of the overall number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination, unless he were to suddenly receive an avalanche of endorsements from the party and elected officials known as superdelegates.
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Police reports
10:35 PM 5/19/2008 — Champaign The Twilight Lounge, 120 N. Neil St., was cited for over occupation by the Champaign Fire Department May 9. According to a police report, the 23-year-old male manager on duty was cited for the violation after firefighters counted too many occupants in the establishment.
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Odds 'N' Ends: 14 tons of spilled Oreo cookies snarl Ill. traffic after trailer overturns
10:38 PM 5/19/2008 — MORRIS, Ill. - Got milk? Police say a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos has overturned, spilling the cookies still in their plastic sleeves into the median and roadway. Illinois State Police Sgt. Brian Mahoney says the truck's driver was traveling from Chicago to Morris on Interstate 80 around 4 a.
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