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Pritzker expected Thurs. to make big vaccine announcement
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker could announce Thursday the date when all Illinoisans 16 and older will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. Multiple media outlets have reported Apr. ...
Mar 17, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 3/17: tri-county numbers good, regional numbers rise
PEORIA, Ill. -- 99 residents of Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties tested positive between Tuesday and Wednesday for COVID-19, but no virus-related deaths occurred. 57 of the new cases were in Pe...
Mar 17, 2021 Midwest Communications
IRS to extend U.S. tax deadline until May 17: House panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service will extend the federal tax filing deadline until May 17 after members of Congress sought an extension, two senior House of Representatives Dem...
Mar 17, 2021 REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
Sex addiction may have driven suspect in Georgia spa shootings
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The suspect in the fatal shooting of eight people at day spas in and around Atlanta indicated he had issues with sexual addiction and the shootings may have not been motivated by r...
Mar 17, 2021 Crisp County Sheriff's Office in Cordele, Georgia, U.S. March 16, 2021.
State COVID roundup 3/17: Over 1,600 new cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Wednesday reported 1,655 new and probable cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 17 additional deaths. The new case count is down...
Mar 17, 2021 Midwest Communications
Second suspect arrested in connection with late January homicide
PEORIA, Ill. -- A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a late January shooting that left one person dead in Peoria. 25-year-old Jamere Laster was found by United States Marshals Fugitiv...
Mar 17, 2021 Peoria Police Department
Peoria Walgreens held up Tuesday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called just after 7 p.m. Tuesday to the Walgreens in the 2300 block of War Memorial Drive on reports of an armed robbery. Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said ...
Mar 17, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
U.S. facing biggest migrant surge in 20 years: Homeland Security
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is facing the biggest surge of migrants at its southwestern border in 20 years, the homeland security secretary said on Tuesday as the Biden administration rac...
Mar 17, 2021 A migrant child, asylum-seeking from Central America, who was airlifted from Brownsville to El Paso, Texas, and deported from the U.S. with his family, rests on chairs inside the office of the Center for Integral Attention to Migrants (CAIM) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Eight killed, including six women of Asian descent, in Atlanta-area shootings; suspect arrested
(Reuters) - Eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, were shot dead in a string of attacks on Atlanta-area day spas on Tuesday, and a man suspected of carrying out all of the shootings was ar...
Mar 17, 2021 Crime scene tape is seen outside Aromatherapy Spa after shootings at a massage parlor and two day spas in the Atlanta area, in Georgia, U.S. March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Chris Aluka Berry
EP Council eyes road upgrade project
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- East Peoria City Council on Tuesday night gave preliminary approval to a traffic project along IL-116. It would extend from just north of Interstate 74 through the intersection wi...
Mar 16, 2021 Midwest Communications
