Shooting at Market Place Mall
On Sunday, May 1, a very dramatic day occurred in Champaign's Market Place Mall. Around 4:00 pm, shots were heard...
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Vampire Plastic Surgery?
Teen girls swoon over the sparkling Edward from Twilight, but now full-grown women are getting “vampire face-lifts.” The Vampire Facelift...
Osama Bin Laden Killed, News Spread Through Several Media Sources
Osama Bin Laden was a man that was hated throughout many countries. Bin Laden ran an organization called Al Qaeda,...
UHS Students Debate Use of Gay Slurs
Urbana High School is said to have a no-tolerance policy on bullying of any kind. Despite that policy, many students...
UHS Takes Part in National Day of Silence
On Friday, April 15 the hallways were quieter than usual as a number of Urbana High School students participated in...
Kidnapping Victim Jaycee Dugard Held Captive for 18 Years
Eighteen years... 18 years! That's how long registered sex offender, Phillip Garrido, kept Jaycee Lee Dugard in his backyard prison...
Grace Mitchell Retiring After 34 Years at UHS
For the past 34 years, Grace Mitchell has served Urbana High School. Mitchell has been the Secondary Alternative Education Director...
UHS Annual Blood Drive Coming Up
On Tuesday, May 3, Urbana High School will be hosting its annual blood drive from 8 a.m. to 2:30 pm...
New Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act
The average school lunch has about 821 calories and 30 percent fat. While, according americanheart.org, the average sedentary teenage boy...
Teachers on Tenure
According to Time magazine, the early 1900's started an era of teacher unions being involved in something called tenure. Tenure...
