Angklung. Djembe. Berimbau. Such foreign terms may be unfamiliar to most, but for a number of local fourth- and fifth-graders, these terms are immediately recognized and with good reason: they play them. Children from Champaign-Urbana elementary schools demonstrated their newfound skills on world instruments such as these at the World Music and Dance in the Schools fall concert on Saturday.

Many of the prevention and safety responses to the recent increase in campus area crime are programs or features that are also in place or in the works at other Big Ten schools.

A winter storm warning for heavy snow and severe weather conditions has been issued for the Champaign area until 6 p.m. tonight by the National Weather Service.

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Carpe diem, or seize the day, should be the slogan for children at the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club in Champaign, who are ambitiously learning Latin.

Wednesday marks World AIDS Day, and a recent study about an HIV pre-exposure drug may provide an equal amount of hope and difficulty for HIV prevention.

A charity campaign that started in 1929 at the University is determined to make a change this year in Champaign-Urbana, throughout the nation and worldwide.

A program at Parkland College will offer area youth who have dropped out of school the opportunity to obtain their high school diploma and gain valuable job skills.

Three Champaign organizations are in the running to receive grants from the Pepsi Refresh Project.

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This year’s Holiday Tree Lighting in downtown Champaign will take place Saturday, Dec. 4 at 6:45 p.m. The celebration will host the First Annual Gift Drive.

The Champaign County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) is seeking additional volunteers to speak up for abused and neglected children.