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Board of Trustees approves 2008 budget, energy policy for University
11:01 PM 11/14/2007 — The University Board of Trustees passed the budget for the 2008 fiscal year during its meeting in Springfield, Tuesday.
The budget, projected at $3.9 billion, is a 6.1 percent increase from the fiscal year 2007 budget.
Only Trustee Kenneth Schmidt voted against the bill, saying the budget did not address the needed money for the university's medical program.
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Carle expansion worries neighbors
8:38 PM 11/15/2007 — There is an unmarked dividing line directly to the south of Jeff and Cathy Cunningham's home at 801 N. Coler Ave., Urbana. Only steps from the garden the couple planted outside its dining room's picture window, the line separates the houses owned by Carle Foundation Hospital and those bought from the facility since about 1995.
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Union demands board attention
4:16 AM 11/15/2007 — SPRINGFIELD - Supporters for Service Employees International Union Local 73 made their presence known at the Board of Trustees meeting in the Public Affairs Center at the University's Springfield campus Wednesday morning.
The group of 22 demonstrators travelled from Chicago to get the board's attention in hopes of renewing its contract at the University of Illinois at Chicago campus.
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Debate over mandated silent prayer continues in Champaign
12:06 AM 11/15/2007 — The public classroom is a place for learning, Champaign Mayor Gerald Schweighart said, not for sex education and moments of silence.
"I'd like to see them concentrate more on education instead of all the social stuff that they're doing," he said.
The state of Illinois became a focus of national debate when lawmakers overrode a Gov.
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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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Illinois Student Senate rejects funding regional LGBT meeting
11:02 PM 11/14/2007 — The Illinois Student Senate spent a majority of Wednesday night's meeting discussing an appropriation that would sponsor the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference by giving it $500.
After several failed attempts to negate the resolution or re-send it to the appropriations committee, the measure was defeated by an 13-11 vote.
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Man in Atlantic City casino standoff peacefully surrenders to police
12:03 AM 11/15/2007 — ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - A masked man who claimed he was armed and had planted four bombs in a casino held police at bay from a shuttle bus for nearly six hours, demanding $3 million before surrendering peacefully early Wednesday, police said.
During the standoff, the man blamed the Showboat Casino-Hotel for the suicide of his brother, who he said was a former employee who developed a gambling problem, according to a person with knowledge of the standoff who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized by law enforcement to release the information.
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Bar for law school admission still high
11:23 PM 11/14/2007 — Applications to law schools may be on the decline, but there is no reason for applying students to get excited.
Half of law schools have reported a decline in applicants over the past two years, but 79 percent say their admissions process is no less competitive, according to a survey conducted by Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.
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Federal judge blocks moment of silence in Chicagoland school district
11:04 PM 11/14/2007 — CHICAGO - A federal judge on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking a suburban Chicago school district from enforcing a new state law requiring a moment of silence, calling the statute "likely unconstitutional" and vague.
Judge Robert W. Gettleman asked the parties in the case to return to federal court on Thursday when he said he would consider making the injunction statewide.
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Negotiators abandon talks about mass-transit funding
11:05 PM 11/14/2007 — CHICAGO - Two key negotiators walked out on a Wednesday meeting aimed at resolving a bitter legislative stalemate over mass-transit funding and casino expansion that House Speaker Michael Madigan said devolved into "nonproductive shouting."
Gov. Rod Blagojevich called the meeting with top lawmakers and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to try to break a logjam over transit funding, casino expansion and a massive statewide construction program - projects that all have stalled because of contentious relations among lawmakers during a protracted legislative session.
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Police reports
11:06 PM 11/14/2007 — Champaign A 21-year-old woman reported assault at the 100 block of Fourth Street, Monday night. According to a police report, the victim reported that a 25-year-old man pointed a gun at her and threatened to kill her. The victim was not harmed. No arrests had been made at the time of the report.
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Odds and ends: Warden wants satellite TV so inmates can watch NFL
8:13 PM 11/14/2007 — ATLANTA - The warden of the Clayton County Correctional Institution wants permission to spend money for a "management tool" - satellite TV to keep his 226 inmates occupied watching football. Warden Frank Taylor is asking the Clayton County Commission to let him sign up for direct-broadcast satellite service for less than $100 a month.
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