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Update: Victim of Peoria County crash identified
UPDATE: 12/22 10:13 a.m. PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 24-year-old Cheyenne Edwards, of Canton, rolled her vehicle and struck a power pole in the 18-thousand, 2-hundr...
Dec 21, 2021 Midwest Communications
Kasper: Not surprised by Omicron's spread; but rather acceleration
PEORIA, Ill. -- With the Omicron variant of COVID-19 spreading rapidly in the U.S., there is one thing you can definitely do to help protect yourself...that's getting the vaccine if you haven't yet, o...
Dec 21, 2021 Midwest Communications
University of Illinois returns to remote learning after the holidays
URBANA, Ill. -- The University of Illinois will temporarily switch back to remote learning in January before students return to classrooms. Students and staff in Champaign-Urbana and Chicago will also...
Dec 21, 2021 Midwest Communications
Dozens test positive for COVID at Peoria Co. Jail
PEORIA, Ill. -- Over 50 inmates and jail staff have tested positive in a COVID outbreak at the Peoria County Jail. The Peoria County Sheriff's Office told news partner 25 News that 41 inmates and 11 j...
Dec 21, 2021 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
No verdict yet as jury deliberates in trial of Minnesota police officer who killed Daunte Wright
(Reuters) -Jurors retired for the evening on Monday after starting deliberations in the manslaughter trial of Kimberly Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who mistook her handgun for her Taser...
Dec 21, 2021 Kimberly Potter, the white former Minnesota police officer who killed Black motorist Daunte Wright in April after claiming she mistook her handgun for her Taser, breaks down in tears as she testifies during her trial in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, U.S., December 17, 2021 in this image taken from court television footage. Pool footage/Handout via REUTERS
As Omicron surges, Biden to expand testing and warn unvaccinated
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration will open federal COVID-19 testing sites in New York City this week and buy 500 million at-home rapid tests that Americans can order online for free sta...
Dec 21, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A woman gets a COVID-19 test during the coronavirus disease pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., December 17, 2021. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
State: COVID-19 is causing hospital beds statewide to run out
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The State of Illinois is sounding an alarm similar to the one local health officials sounded last week, about hospital capacity right now, thanks in part to COVID-19. As of Sunday ...
Dec 20, 2021 Midwest Communications
State minimum wage goes up again Jan. 1
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - You might have forgotten, unless you're a business owner. The State of Illinois minimum wage goes up to $12 an hour, from $11, on New Years Day. But, that won't necessarily be the ...
Dec 20, 2021 Paul Sableman / CC
State Climatologist: Tornado patterns are changing
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A top weather expert in Illinois says as if you needed any more proof recently, tornado patterns are changing. State Climatologist Trent Ford says "Tornado Alley" -- typically Texa...
Dec 20, 2021 Midwest Communications
Jury begins deliberations in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial
UPDATED 4:00 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -The jury in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial began deliberations on Monday after hearing closing arguments over whether the British socialite set up teenage gi...
Dec 20, 2021 Ghislaine Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein associate accused of sex trafficking, sits next to defense attorney Jeffrey Pagliucca as she takes notes during a charging conference in a courtroom sketch in New York City, U.S., December 18, 2021. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
