By Sarah Yu
A homicide investigation is being conducted over the discovery of a man’s body at about 10 p.m. last night by Champaign police. The man’s body was found in his home in the 1600 block of Prospect Street. The police found the body after they were contacted by concerned family members. (more…)
Here is Hong’s memo which presented a great round-up of our class trip to the Champaign County Courthouse.
(1) If you want to keep good working relationship with officials of the courtroom, the first thing you should do is: learn the system. Associate Judge Rich Klaus said that in court they speak a foreign language. If you want to get things quick and right and correctly understand what is going on, you should learn “court jargons” first and try to speak the language that court officers speak. As a journalist, if you always ask stupid questions, it would be very hard to build trust and rapport with officials in the courtroom. (more…)
Here’s a link to the College of Education Web site, where Ros Dumlao’s story on community colleges was recently published: http://education.illinois.edu/news/2009/comm-college-opportunities.html
Champaign citizens speak out on shooting
By Hong Shen
CHAMPAIGN – Several hundred people attended the “audience participation” period of the city council’s meeting Tuesday night to talk about a shooting on Oct.9, which resulted in the gunshot death of a 15-year-old Kiwane Carrington.
Mr. Carrington was fatally shot in a scuffle with Champaign police, as the result of a burglary call to police at 906 W. Vine St., C, on Oct.9.
The incident, which involved Police Chief R.T. Finney and Officer Daniel Norbits, remains under an investigation by the Multi-jurisdictional Investigative Team led by the state police and an internal investigation by the Champaign Police Department. (more…)
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