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Fund childcare to allow more moms to join workforce, Biden says
HARTFORD (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden touted a crucial part of his economic plan, funding for childcare that will free parents, mostly women, to work for pay, in a speech at a Connecticut chil...
Oct 17, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden is welcomed by children at the Capitol Child Development Center in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., October 15, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
No more 18th District in proposed Illinois Congressional Map
PEORIA, Ill. - If you believe what mostly Illinois Democratic lawmakers have just proposed, Congressman Darin LaHood just got himself drawn right out of a Congressional District. A proposed map releas...
Oct 15, 2021 Proposed Peoria-area Congressional Districts (Illinois General Assembly)
Pritzker: Indoor mask mandate still needed
CHICAGO, Ill. - Don't get your hopes up about the lifting of the state's latest indoor mask mandate, even though many places aren't even enforcing the mandate, and even though cases, hospitalizations,...
Oct 15, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Florida school gunman Cruz to plead guilty to murder, lawyer says
(Reuters) -Nikolas Cruz will plead guilty to murder in the 2018 mass shooting that killed 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, his lawyer told a judge on...
Oct 15, 2021 Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz looks on before pleading guilty on all four criminal counts stemming from his alleged attack on a Broward County jail guard in November 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. October 15, 2021. Amy Beth Bennett/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. FDA advisers vote in favor of booster for J&J COVID-19 vaccine
UPDATED 1:28 P.M. (Reuters) -Outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday voted unanimously to recommend regulators authorize a second shot of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 v...
Oct 15, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A vial of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is seen during a vaccination event hosted by Miami - Dade County and Miami Heat, at FTX Arena in Miami, Florida, U.S., August 5, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello
County Board cuts Auditor's office after State's Attorney alleges mismanagement
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County Auditor Jessica Thomas' office staff will be reduced to just the auditor herself after the County Board voted for next fiscal year's budget Thursday night, but not before ...
Oct 15, 2021 Jessica Thomas (WMBD/Peoria County)
Water main repairs shut down West MLK Jr. drive in Peoria
Peoria, Ill (WMBD) -- Water main repairs will frustrate drivers along West Martin Luther King Junior Drive in Peoria and it's not known how long the work will take. On Friday, Illinois American Water ...
Oct 15, 2021 Dagny Mol / CC
British lawmaker murdered in knife attack at meeting in church
LEIGH-ON-SEA, England (Reuters) -A British lawmaker was stabbed to death on Friday in a church by a man who lunged at him at a meeting with voters from his electoral district, knifing him repeatedly. ...
Oct 15, 2021 Police officers are seen at the scene where MP David Amess was stabbed during constituency surgery, in Leigh-on-Sea, Britain October 15, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Couldridge
Victim of fatal Peoria house fire identified
UPDATE - Peoria, Ill - The Peoria County coroner has identified the victim of a Thursday morning house fire in Peoria. DeShawn Jones, 40, was pronounced dead at the scene of the fire at 903 W. Thrush ...
Oct 15, 2021 (25 News)
Ex-President Bill Clinton recovering from infection in hospital, doctors say
ORANGE, California (Reuters) -U.S. former President Bill Clinton is recovering after two days of treatment for an infection in a California hospital, his doctors said on Thursday. The 75-year-old was ...
Oct 15, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton attends a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Action Network in San Juan, Puerto Rico February 18, 2020. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo/File Photo
