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Illinois Department of Public Health aligns with new CDC guidance
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced Tuesday it is fully adopting updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) masking recommendations. The CDC Tu...
Jul 27, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. CDC recommends vaccinated Americans wear masks indoors in many cases
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 should go back to wearing masks in indoor public places in regions where the coronavirus and especially the Delta variant are spreadin...
Jul 27, 2021 REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Biles uncertain if she will continue at Tokyo Games
TOKYO (Reuters) -Simone Biles was left weighing her Olympic future on Tuesday after dropping out of the women's gymnastics team final at the Tokyo Summer Games after one disappointing vault saying she...
Jul 27, 2021 REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Non-profit announces plans to renovate Peoria's Madison Theater
PEORIA, Ill. -- An effort to restore the historic Madison Theater in downtown Peoria is taking shape. Plans to reopen the theater, built in 1920, would be part of a larger project that would relocate ...
Jul 27, 2021 (Madison Preservation Association)
Olympics-Gymnastics-Russia Olympic Committee win women's team gold
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Russian Olympic Committee won the gymnastics women's team event at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, denying American Simone Biles the first of what she hoped would be six gold meda...
Jul 27, 2021 Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Gymnastics - Artistic - Women's Team - Final - Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - July 27, 2021. Angelina Melnikova of the Russian Olympic Committee, Vladislava Urazova of the Russian Olympic Committee and Liliia Akhaimova of the Russian Olympic Committee react wearing face protective face masks REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Olympics-Gymnastics-Biles out of team event, can still get medal
TOKYO (Reuters) - Simone Biles's quest to become the greatest female Olympian here in Tokyo took a bizarre twist on Tuesday, when she dropped out of the women's team event after one vault. After a dis...
Jul 27, 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
Police who defended U.S. Capitol to testify at riot probe's first hearing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four police officers who worked to defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of then-President Donald Trump's supporters are due to testify on Tuesday at the first hearing before a con...
Jul 27, 2021 REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Peoria man sentenced to federal prison for gun theft
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria man has been sentenced to 5 1/2-years in federal prison for stealing nearly 100 guns, including one that that was used in a mass shooting last summer. The guns were stolen fro...
Jul 27, 2021 Midwest Communications
PPS will require masks; COVID pay approved
PEORIA,Ill. -- Peoria Public Schools will require all students and staff to wear masks this school year. Peoria School Board President Gregory Wilson said the decision was made to put safety first. PP...
Jul 27, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
UPDATE: Juvenile killed last Wednesday was just 12; now being investigated as homicide
PEORIA, Ill. -- A 12-year-old boy was the victim of a shooting last Wednesday morning just after 5:00 a.m. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the victim as Deshawnteris Edwards, who li...
Jul 26, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
