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Bitter cold raises awareness of in-home pipe bursts and water main breaks
Peoria, Ill -- Illinois American Water continues monitoring their system for water main breaks as bitter cold puts pressure on pipes all across the region. As of mid-day Wednesday, there was no notice...
Jan 05, 2022
Pandemic-wary U.S. Supreme Court to weigh Biden vaccine mandates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court, which has restricted its own operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, is preparing to decide whether to block President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates for ...
Jan 05, 2022 Protestors demonstrate against mandates for the vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as they rally outside the New York State Capitol in Albany, New York, U.S., January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Segar
U.S. can't be complacent on Omicron despite reduced severity - Fauci
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States cannot be complacent about the Omicron variant of the coronavirus despite signs of its lower severity compared to the Delta variant, top U.S. infectious diseas...
Jan 05, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks about the Omicron coronavirus variant during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
At least 13 people, including 7 children, killed in Philadelphia fire
(Reuters) -At least 13 people, including seven children, were killed in an early morning fire on Wednesday in a Philadelphia apartment building after smoke detectors failed to go off, the Philadelphia...
Jan 05, 2022 Midwest Communications
UnityPoint Health suspending elective procedures at area hospitals
PEORIA, Ill. -- UnityPoint Health-Central Illinois is suspending all elective procedures. Hospital officials said in a statement on Wednesday, that due to an increase in positive COVID inpatient admis...
Jan 05, 2022 1470-100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
Chicago cancels school as record-setting Omicron wave spurs more disruptions
UPDATED 10:58 A.M. CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago officials canceled classes in the nation's third-largest school district on Wednesday amid a dispute with the teachers' union, the latest disruption to U...
Jan 05, 2022 FILE PHOTO: An exterior view shows Joseph Jungman Public School in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, as Chicago Public Schools suspended in-person learning after Chicago Teachers Union members voted to work remotely due to concerns around the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) precautions in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., January 27, 2021. REUTERS/Eileen Meslar
U.S. lawmakers weigh new COVID-19 stimulus funding -report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers are discussing another possible round of COVID-19 stimulus spending for businesses, seeking to blunt the impact of the fast-spreading Omicron variant, the Washing...
Jan 05, 2022 FILE PHOTO: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer display the "American Rescue Plan" during the enrolment ceremony following passage of U.S. President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus disease (COVID-19) relief bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 10, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott
Biden to speak 'truth' on Jan 6 anniversary; Trump cancels event
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden will mark the one-year anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump's followers with a speech on Thursday warning of the threa...
Jan 05, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team on the latest developments related to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the South Court Auditorium at the White House complex in Washington, U.S., January 4, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
FOLEPI sets new attendance record in 2021
PEORIA, Ill. -- For a second year in a row, East Peoria's Festival of Lights saw a huge number of visitors in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. But that wasn't the only obstacle in the way for the s...
Jan 05, 2022 Rick Hirschmann/1470-100.3 WMBD
Manchin's reluctance leaves Democrats' U.S. voting rights bill at risk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Democrats' efforts to pass voting rights legislation in Congress appeared in jeopardy on Tuesday, as a centrist Democratic senator said he had little interest in a strategy ...
Jan 05, 2022 U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) confer before addressing reporters following the weekly senate party caucus luncheons at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. July 9, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
