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Reditus Labs confirms Delta's dominance
PEKIN, Ill. -- Reditus Labs in Pekin is reporting that 95% of positive COVID-19 tests they processed in a sequencing run on July 29 were the Delta variant. Reditus Labs CEO Dr. Aaron Rossi said on Mon...
Aug 03, 2021 Credit: Reditus Labs
Olympics-Gymnastics-Guan wins gold, Biles returns to claim balance beam bronze
TOKYO (Reuters) - Simone Biles made a fearless return to competition on Tuesday, capping a tumultuous Tokyo Games with a bronze medal on the balance beam. The final gold of the women's artistic gymnas...
Aug 03, 2021 Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Gymnastics - Artistic - Women's Beam - Final - Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - August 3, 2021. Simone Biles of the United States reacts. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner
PPD and neighborhoods ready to celebrate National Night Out
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police, Peoria Firefighters and public officials will make the rounds of the City's neighborhoods Tuesday night in celebration of National Night Out Against Crime. A number of P...
Aug 03, 2021 MWC-PPD
Some Republican U.S. senators snipe at $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will try to complete work this week on a $1 trillion infrastructure investment bill that would bring long-awaited improvements to roads, bridges and mass-transit...
Aug 03, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Vehicles are parked outside the U.S. Capitol building the morning the Senate returned to session in Washington, DC, U.S., July 31, 2021. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
UPDATE: Officer ran towards gunfire after being shot in leg Sunday morning, arrest made
PEORIA, Ill. -- More details have been released surrounding the officer-involved shooting early Sunday morning near Taft Homes. According to Sgt. Amy Dotson, the officer observed a large fight near th...
Aug 02, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham says he tested positive for COVID-19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham announced on Monday that he has tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated, has flu-like symptoms and will be self-quarantining ...
Aug 02, 2021 REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool
New Illinois law expands background checks to all gun sales
AURORA, Ill. -- Gov. JB Pritzker Monday signed House Bill (HB) 562 into law, which expands background checks on all gun sales in Illinois and provides mental health funding for communities most impact...
Aug 02, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. Republican report says coronavirus leaked from Chinese lab; scientists still probing origins
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A preponderance of evidence proves the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic leaked from a Chinese research facility, said a report by U.S. Republicans released on Monday, a c...
Aug 02, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication together with Trinity College in Dublin, shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus which is the type of virus linked to COVID-19, shared with Reuters on February 18, 2020. NEXU Science Communication/via REUTERS
UPDATE: Man who died in Monday morning motorcycle crash identified
UPDATE -- Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley has identified the motorcycle rider who died after a crash Monday morning as 20-year-old Samuel Rodgers, of Mason County. The Tazewell County Sheriff's...
Aug 02, 2021 (25 News)
Olympics-Biles to compete in balance beam, Belarus athlete enters Polish embassy
TOKYO (Reuters) -Simone Biles will compete in the balance beam competition, officials said on Monday, in what would be the U.S. superstar gymnast's last chance for gold in Tokyo after pulling out of o...
Aug 02, 2021 Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Gymnastics - Artistic - Women's Team - Final - Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - July 27, 2021. Simone Biles of the United States wearing a protective face mask is seen leaving a medical station during the final REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
