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CDC to scale back data collection as US ends COVID health emergency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday it would stop reporting or monitoring COVID-19 case data and transmission rates after the government end...
May 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell/File Photo
PPD investigating Friday morning death
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called early Friday morning to the area of W. Wiswall Street and W. Lincoln Avenue on reports of a person on fire. PPD Spokesperson Semone Roth says officers arrived...
May 05, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US job growth accelerates in April; jobless rate falls to 3.4%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth accelerated in April while wage gains increased solidly, pointing to sustained labor market strength that could compel the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates...
May 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign with a QR code is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
World leaders gather in London for King Charles' coronation
LONDON (Reuters) - King Charles will hold a reception on Friday for world leaders gathered in London for his coronation this weekend, the biggest ceremonial event to be staged in Britain for 70 years....
May 05, 2023 A man walks past a shop's display window in Durham, Britain, May 5, 2023. REUTERS/Lee Smith
Car with suspected shooter crashes into home
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are looking for someone who might have used a gun near Northwoods Mall early Thursday morning. Police say an officer parked on War Memorial Drive near the mall heard the s...
May 04, 2023 Midwest Communications
Man, arrested for sixth time this year, accused of attempted arson
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - A Hanna City man has been arrested for the sixth time this year in Peoria County -- this time for allegedly attempting to set a home on fire. The Peoria County Sheriffs Departmen...
May 04, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail March 2023)
California man charged with defrauding Central Illinois investors
URBANA, Ill. - A California man and his company are accused of defrauding Central Illinois residents out of more than $20 million. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Brett Bartlett, 37, and his companies...
May 04, 2023 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Chokehold death of homeless man on New York subway ruled a homicide
(Reuters) - The death of a man who was placed in a chokehold by a fellow passenger on a New York City subway train earlier this week has been ruled a homicide by the city's medical examiner as calls f...
May 04, 2023 Subway riders walk at the Broadway-Lafayette subway station, after according to local media reports a 30-year-old man acting erratically on a F subway train died on Monday afternoon after a fellow rider restrained him with a chokehold according to the police and a video of the encounter, in New York City, U.S., May 3, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Republican debt-limit plan would cut US jobs, slow growth, economist tells Senate panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican plan to cut federal spending in exchange for lifting the U.S. government's debt ceiling would lower employment, slow economic growth and "meaningfully increase" the...
May 04, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A cyclist passes by the U.S. Capitol building, on the morning of the first day of the 118th Congress in Washington, DC, U.S., January 3, 2023. REUTERS/Jon Cherry/File Photo
Illinois fallen officers memorialized at ceremony in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Officers in Illinois who made the ultimate sacrifice in the past year were honored Thursday in Springfield. The annual ceremony took place at the Illinois Peace Officer Memorial sc...
May 04, 2023 (Illinois Fraternal Order of Police)
