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State COVID roundup 2/20: ICU and ventilator use slightly down
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Saturday reported 1,922 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, including 42 additional deaths. As of Friday night, 1,551 ind...
Feb 20, 2021 Midwest Communications
Morton School District 709 COVID update: student cases and quarantines down
MORTON, Ill. -- Morton School District 709 announced Friday their weekly COVID-19 numbers approached year-long lows. As of Feb. 19, three students had coronavirus, a two student decrease from the prev...
Feb 20, 2021
Biden approves Texas disaster declaration
HOUSTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden approved a major disaster declaration for Texas on Saturday as the state struggles with the fallout from a winter storm that killed at least two dozen people an...
Feb 20, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks after a tour of a Pfizer manufacturing plant producing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S., February 19, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
U.S. House Democrats advance $1.9 trillion COVID-19 aid bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's push for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill took a step forward on Friday as a U.S. House of Representatives committee unveiled the legislation Democrats...
Feb 20, 2021 REUTERS/Bing Guan
U.S. extends travel restrictions at land borders with Canada, Mexico through March 21
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. land borders with Canada and Mexico will remain closed to non-essential travel until at least March 21, the one-year anniversary of the restrictions to address COVID-19 tra...
Feb 19, 2021 REUTERS/Lars Hagberg
Local COVID roundup 2/19: region metrics don't improve
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Woodford County woman in her 70s died between Thursday and Friday of COVID-19 complications. She did not live in long-term care. A total of 76 new cases were reported throughout Peor...
Feb 19, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 2/19: 2M mark surpassed
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- After a week of delays in COVID-19 vaccine shipments and low numbers of people throughout Illinois going out to get their shots, both because of inclement weather, the state betwe...
Feb 19, 2021 Midwest Communications
Bradley grad develops helpful voting app
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Bradley University graduate has created a new app to help you be a more informed voter. Jonathon Braun told WMBD's "The Greg and Dan Show", the Perikles app provides all the election...
Feb 19, 2021 Midwest Communications
'Fragile' Texas energy grid comes back to life, steep challenges remain
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - A "fragile" energy grid has fully returned to life for frigid Texans who have spent five days dealing with blackouts caused by a historic winter storm, but challenges in fin...
Feb 19, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Volunteers hand out meals at a Salvation Army facility after winter weather caused electricity blackouts in Plano, Texas, U.S. February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Shelby Tauber
U.S. begins admitting asylum seekers blocked by Trump, with thousands more waiting
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Reuters) - The United States will on Friday begin rolling back one of former President Donald Trump's strictest immigration policies, allowing in the first of thousands of asylum se...
Feb 19, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Migrants, mainly asylum seekers sent back to Mexico from the U.S. under the "Remain in Mexico" program officially named Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), are seen at provisional campsite near the Rio Bravo in Matamoros, Mexico February 26, 2020. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photo
