Illinois Senator Burris Ethics Invesigation
Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) (R) meets with University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois on May 27, 2009. (UPI Photo/Mark Cowan)
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A British court ruled in favor of a businessman who decided to bill cold-calling telephone marketers for his time.
Former University of Illinois law school Dean Heidi Hurd testified top state and school officials abused their power to admit a student into the school.
A top University of Illinois official says he's sorry politically connected students with weak academic credentials have been admitted to the college.
The parents of a black man mistakenly shot by Anaheim, Calif., police say they want Disneyland to erect a statue of their late son at the theme park.
Three-time University of Illinois graduate Thomas M. Siebel is giving his alma mater $100 million -- the largest gift in the school's history.
Nobel Prize winner Paul C. Lauterbur, who helped develop magnetic resonance imaging, has died at 77 of kidney disease in Urbana, Ill.
U.S. authorities in New York said an Indian businessman pleaded guilty to bribing a former senior U.N. official to obtain $50 million in contracts.
The female stalker of actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has been sentenced in a Los Angeles court to three years in prison.
University of Illinois' chancellor is calling for changes at the student newspaper, the Daily Illini, for what he said is a pattern of anti-Semitic incidents.
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