Urbana (Champaign, Illinois)

The Associated Press reports Indiana House Democrats are expected back in the House chamber in Indianapolis at 5pm today. WISH-TV in Indianapolis reports the Democrats are leaving their hotel in Urbana, Illinois, and heading home.    

(From WTHR.COM)  The members of the Indiana House Democratic Caucus have issued the following statement on today's events at the Indiana House of Representatives: "The past few days have seen an unprecedented attack on Hoosier families by a radical...

— House Speaker Michael Madigan on Thursday announced that he has struck a preliminary deal with the state's universities and community colleges that will require them to slowly pick up the cost of teacher pensions over several years even as tuition...

Marcy Henrikson was a supporter of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and marched for women's rights in the 1970s. But she wasn't proud of her initial reaction 30 years ago when she learned her teenage daughter was lesbian, her family said. She...

MEN'S TENNIS Vanguard 5, Warner 1 MOBILE, Ala. — The No. 3-seeded Lions improved to 23-0 by trouncing the Florida-based school in the second round of the NAIA Tournament on Wednesday at the Mobile Tennis Center. Lions freshman Stefan...

Tom Livingston may be new to the village presidency, but he's no stranger to La Grange. In addition to serving as a trustee for eight years between 2003 and 2011, Livingston, 45, grew up in the village, attending grade school at LaGrange Highlands and...

Larry and Dianna Barker of Gravel Switch announce the engagement of their daughter, Jamie Marie Hamblin, to Steven Sockwhan Kim, son of Nancy Kim of Des Plaines, Ill. The bride-elect is a 1997 graduate of Boyle County High School, 2002 graduate of...

Lehigh University's men's tennis team will play its first ever NCAA Tournament match Friday, when it meets No. 6 Mississippi at the Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center in Oxford, Miss. A new starting time of 4 p.m. (ET) has been announced, a change from when...

Richard Herman doesn't have to do much teaching as part of his $212,000 faculty job at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When he resigned as chancellor after a high-profile admissions scandal, he made a deal to teach just two classes a...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys on both sides of a case involving a prominent Indianapolis lawyer charged in a $4.5 million fraud are waiting for a federal judge to decide whether his bond should be revoked. The case against William F. Conour is...

In college, Nathan Gunn studied Franz Schubert’s lieder (art songs) as an “open major” option. It seems so specific — focusing on one category of the oeuvre of one composer. As a professional, by contrast, Gunn has tried...

Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....