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Thaimon T. Crawford, 41, pleaded guilty Monday to possessing 17.5 grams of cocaine, just 2.5 grams more than minimum quantity that required him to be charged with a Class X

Champaign woman gets 30 months probation for paralyzing another in 2020 DUI accident

Champaign woman gets 30 months probation for paralyzing another in 2020 DUI accident

Champaign woman gets 30 months probation for paralyzing another in 2020 DUI accident

The judge said the “careless use” of firearms by teens who should not have them cannot be tolerated and that the Department of Juvenile Justice has services to help the

The judge said the “careless use” of firearms by teens who should not have them cannot be tolerated and that the Department of Juvenile Justice has services to help the

Mitchells attorney said Mitchell thought a stranger who had punched her in a dispute over shoes was also going to shoot her so she shot him.

This story is part of a partnership focusing on police misconduct in Champaign County between the Champaign-Urbana Civic Police Data Project of the Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit public accountability journalism organization, and Illinois Newsroom,which provides news about Illinois & in-depth reporting on Agriculture, Education, the Environment, Health, and Politics, powered by Illinois Public Media. This investigation was supported with funding from the Data-Driven Reporting...

URBANA — A Champaign man facing decades in prison for weapons offenses had his sentencing hearing continued Wednesday after trying unsuccessfully to get a new lawyer. Judge Randy Rosenbaum allowed Herbert Shah to talk uninterrupted for more than an hour about his dissatisfaction with Cierra Norris of Chicago, an attorney he hired to represent him. She was his third attorney in the case filed against him 18 months ago. Charged in July 2019 in a June 22 shooting that occurred outside Hollywo...