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Local COVID roundup 4/20: Six new area deaths
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department Tuesday reported six new area deaths due to COVID-19. Peoria County reported two deaths; a female in her 80s and a male in his 70s with comobid...
Apr 20, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 4/20: Positivity rate drops again
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Tuesday reported the state's seven-day statewide positivity rate is down to 4.5%. Last Wednesday, the positivity rate was 5% and ha...
Apr 20, 2021 Midwest Communications
Kasper: Our response to COVID-19 looks different a year later
PEORIA, Ill. -- With a positivity rate of 12%, Peoria County has more new cases of COVID-19 than any other area of Illinois. Dr. Doug Kasper, with the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peo...
Apr 20, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. CDC expands COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to 16 and older
(Reuters) - Everyone in United States aged 16 years and above is now eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday. People aged 16 years a...
Apr 20, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Nursing student Erika Lohr vaccinates a patient as California opens up vaccine eligibility to any residents 16 years and older during the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Chula Vista, California, U.S., April 15, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake
No show: 'Boom' not taking place on 4th
PEORIA, Ill. - For the second year in a row, the traditional "Red, White, and Boom" event will not happen on the Fourth of July. Organizers said the current state of COVID-19 played a role. "It's enti...
Apr 20, 2021 Midwest Communications
Jurors to resume deliberations in Derek Chauvin murder trial
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Jurors are due to begin a second day of deliberations on Tuesday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder and manslaughter after...
Apr 20, 2021 Demonstrators march through downtown after the closing statements in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who is facing murder charges in the death of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., April 19, 2021. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi
Former U.S. vice president Walter Mondale dies at 93: media
Walter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a historic landslide to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential el...
Apr 19, 2021 REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Minneapolis, other cities boost security ahead of Chauvin verdict
(Reuters) -- Minneapolis and other U.S. cities were ramping up security measures on Monday, girding for possible protests after a jury delivers a verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police offi...
Apr 19, 2021 REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi
Illinois American Water replacing over 3,000 feet of water main in Farmington
FARMINGTON, Ill. -- Illinois American Water will be replacing over 3,000 feet of water main, approximately $635,000 worth, in the City of Farmington. According to Illinois American Water, work will be...
Apr 19, 2021 Illinois American Water
State COVID roundup 4/19: More than half have at least one dose
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Monday reported 53% of Illinoisans 18 and older and 50% 16 and older have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. More than 65...
Apr 19, 2021 Midwest Communications
