The family of slain University of Illinois scholar Yingying Zhang have left Champaign to go back to China. Yingying's convicted killer Brendt Christensen admitted earlier this month that her remains could be in a landfill in Vermilion County. According to...

Yingying Zhang's family has created an endowment fund in her name at the University of Illinois for international students and their families whenever they experience emergency situations. The Zhang family made the first donation to the fund of $30,000. The...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will announce an endowment fund to honor slain Illinois scholar Yingying Zhang on Monday. It will be announced by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at 10 a. m. on Aug. 19 in the...

Yingying Zhang's convicted kidnapper and killer's life was spared after two jurors refused to agree to a death sentence on Thursday while deliberating at the Federal Courthouse in Peoria. An alternate juror in the Yingying Zhang murder trial told Fox...

A memorial service was held Friday, at 1 p. m. for the murdered University of Illinois scholar Yingying Zhang at First Baptist Church in Savoy. Yingying's family, friends and the community gathered to pay their respects to the life and...

Illinois authorities have said the remains of a slain 26-year-old scholar from China may never be found despite a vow from prosecutors this week that the search will continue. Brendt Christensen, a former physics doctoral student at the University of...

4:38 P. M. UPDATE: Yingying's family addressed the media after Brendt Christensen was sentenced to life behind bars. Christensen's sentence was announced after jurors spent approximately nine hours Wednesday and Thursday deliberating. He was sentenced to life behind...

Closing arguments have ended and the jury is now working to decide if Yingying Zhang's convicted kidnapper and killer should live or die. The 12 jurors were dismissed at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday. The federal prosecutor's last words to the...