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Illinois officials investigate racist post directed at Kofi Cockburn
INDIANAPOLIS -- University of Illinois' Kofi Cockburn is the second basketball player to say he faced racist comments on social media after his team's loss to Loyola Chicago on Sunday at the NCAA tour...
Mar 23, 2021 Midwest Communications
Expulsions, releases, hotels: Migrant families at U.S.-Mexico border face mixed U.S. policies
DEL RIO, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. officials are trying to drive home an increasingly emphatic message to the growing number of mostly Central American asylum seekers crossing the U.S.-Mexico border ever...
Mar 23, 2021 Stephanie, 10 months old, cries as she is carried by her father Manuel de Jesus Martinez, an asylum-seeking migrant from Honduras who was airlifted from Brownsville to El Paso, Texas, and deported from the U.S. with her, while waiting to be transferred to a shelter outside the office of the Center for Integral Attention to Migrants (CAIM) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 18, 2021. Picture taken March 18, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
IEMA tells Illinoisans to prepare for earthquakes after one strikes Monday morning
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) is reminding Illinoisans to be prepared for earthquakes after one hit southern Illinois Monday morning. The earthquake was reported...
Mar 22, 2021
Former Lakers great Baylor dies aged 86
(Reuters) -- Former Minneapolis and Los Angeles Lakers forward Elgin Baylor died of natural causes at the age of 86 on Monday, the NBA franchise announced. Baylor, the number one draft pick in 1958 an...
Mar 22, 2021 REUTERS/Nikki Boertman (UNITED STATES)/File Photo
Local COVID roundup 3/22: Region continues to trend the wrong direction
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department Monday reported no new tri-county area deaths due to COVID-19 over the weekend. Hospital usage in the area did increase, going from 32 Friday t...
Mar 22, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 3/22: 1,220 new cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Monday reported 1,220 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, including 22 additional deaths due to the virus. The preliminar...
Mar 22, 2021 Midwest Communications
Top Biden officials heading to Mexico for migration talks
MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden dispatched U.S. envoys to Mexico and Guatemala on Monday for migration talks as he struggles to contain a burgeoning humanitarian challenge ...
Mar 22, 2021 FILE PHOTO: White House Coordinator for the Southern Border Ambassador Roberta Jacobson takes a question from a journalist during a daily press briefing hosted by Press Secretary Jen Psaki at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 10, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Miami Beach extends curfew, emergency powers to control spring break crowds
(Reuters) - Miami Beach officials voted on Sunday to extend an 8 p.m. curfew and emergency powers for up to three weeks to help control unruly and mostly maskless crowds that have converged on the par...
Mar 22, 2021 Police officers detain a man as they enforce an 8pm curfew imposed by local authorities on spring break festivities, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., March 20, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello
State COVID roundup 3/21: More than 75K vaccinated Saturday
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Public Health on Sunday reported 64% of people 65 and older have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced on Thur...
Mar 22, 2021 Midwest Communications
AstraZeneca's new trial data gives COVID-19 vaccine a boost in U.S.
FRANKFURT/TAIPEI (Reuters) - AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine received a major boost on Monday after data from a large trial showed it was safe and effective, potentially paving the way for its emerg...
Mar 22, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A vial labelled with the AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is seen in this illustration picture taken March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
