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It’s Year 3 of Flyin’ Illini star Kenny Battles basketball camp, which benefits the kids of Douglass Park’s First String league.

After two grant applications failed, the Champaign City Council voted to approve $400,000 in funding to construct a building with a concession stand and restrooms along with a third field.

1. 72-year-old Steamboat man gets 60 days in jail for fraud A 72 year-old remodel and construction contractor from Steamboat Springs was sentenced on Thursday, July 7, to 60 days in the Routt County Jail...

Holiday museum events for 2021 include The Wadsworth Atheneum’s Festival of Trees and Traditions, which runs from Dec. 2 to 12.

Elliott Carter’s Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master A composer of famously thorny music had two failed forays into ballet, given fresh reconsideration on a new album. Elliott Carter’s score for “The Minotaur,” above, premiered in 1947 by the company that would become New York City Ballet, was written in a style that he would soon abandon.Credit...Larry Colwell Published March 17, 2021Updated March 19, 2021 The composer Elliott Carter, looking back on his early balle...

By FAITH E. PINHO | Los Angeles Times | Published: March 13, 2021 LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) — She had been drifting in the cold Pacific water for a night and most of a day. Kept afloat by her orange life jacket and the bow of her familys capsized boat, 9-year-old Desireé  Rodriguez had watched helplessly as one family member after another let go of life. First her mother began foaming at the mouth and then went still. Her 5-year-old sister died soon after. Her uncle went next,...

35 years ago, boaters saved girl, 9, after her entire family died at sea; now, they meet again Updated Mar 13, 2021; Posted Mar 13, 2021 Desireé Rodriguez Campuzano in San Pedro, California on Feb. 7, 2021. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)TNS Facebook Share By Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — She had been drifting in the cold Pacific water for a night and most of a day. Kept afloat by her orange life jacket and the bow of her family’s capsized boat, 9-year-old Desire...

LOS ANGELES — She had been drifting in the cold Pacific water for a night and most of a day.

Listen to this story She had been drifting in the cold Pacific water for a night and most of a day. Kept afloat by her orange life jacket and the bow of her family’s capsized boat, 9-year-old Desireé Rodriguez had watched helplessly as one family member after another let go of life. First her mother began foaming at the mouth and then went still. Her 5-year-old sister died soon after. Her uncle went next, followed by her aunt. Advertisement Now she was alone, with no idea where her father...