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Ronnie Spector, leader of the music group Ronettes, has died at 78
(Reuters) - Ronnie Spector, singer of the 1960s hits "Be My Baby" and "Baby, I Love You" has died at the age of 78, her family said in a statement on Wednesday. Spector, leader of the girl group the R...
Jan 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Musician Ronnie Spector performs during the 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, March 15, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
Pritzker: Hospitals are getting temporary help to address COVID-caused short-staffing
CHICAGO, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker has a message for what he says are continually-tired healthcare workers in the state still treating patients while in some cases themselves battling COVID-19. Help...
Jan 12, 2022 Midwest Communications
OSF: 'Influx' of patients because of competing hospital closure
GALESBURG, Ill. - Peoria-based OSF HealthCare says, in a sense, they had a fear the closure of a competing hospital in one of their areas might happen. OSF says Saint Mary Medical Center in Galesburg ...
Jan 12, 2022 Courtesy Rick Heath
Biden says 'price increases still too high'
UPDATED 4:02 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden admitted on Wednesday that his administration still had "more work to do with price increases still too high" even as he stated that th...
Jan 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden looks on as he delivers remarks on the October jobs report at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 5, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Tazewell County State's Attorney to run for judge
PEKIN, Ill. - The Tazewell County State's Attorney is trying again to run for a higher public office. Stu Umholtz is running for a seat on the bench in the local 10th Judicial Circuit, looking to repl...
Jan 12, 2022 1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Komen's MORE THAN PINK Walk moving back to Mother's Day weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- Susan G. Komen Memorial announced on Wednesday that it's Peoria MORE THAN PINK Walk will officially return to the Saturday before Mother's Day this year. The event will kick off at the...
Jan 12, 2022 (Susan G. Komen Memorial)
Chicago schools reopen after teachers agree to end COVID-19 walkout
(Reuters) -Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest U.S. education district, resumed in-person classes on Wednesday after a union backed ending a walkout over COVID-19 fears in an agreement it said w...
Jan 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Darwin Elementary after Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third-largest school district, said it would cancel classes since the teachers' union voted in favor of a return to remote learning, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
U.S. consumer prices increase strongly in December
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices rose solidly in December, with the annual increase in inflation the largest in nearly four decades, which could bolster expectations that the Federal Reserv...
Jan 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Shoppers browse in a Home Depot building supplies store while wearing masks to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in north St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. April 4, 2020. Picture taken April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant/File Photo/File Photo
White House says will double COVID-19 tests for schools
(Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a new set of measures to keep classes open, including doubling COVID-19 testing capacity in schools with 10 million more tests, as the Omicr...
Jan 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Nurse Alisa Ellis-Balogun, from Sphere, tests 7-year-old Thomas Byrd for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Seneca High School a day before returning to school in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., August 10, 2021. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud/File Photo
Illinois launches new vaccine campaign
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Illinois is launching a new COVID-19 vaccine campaign in hopes of reaching people who are still on the fence about getting the shots. The initial rollout features four videos from Ill...
Jan 12, 2022 Midwest Communications
