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Pritzker brings back daily press briefings
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. J-B Pritzker is resuming his daily updates on COVID-19 as all regions of the state are seeing cases increase. "Thursday we set a record high of cases identified in one day. A...
Oct 20, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy (file)
Supreme Court denies GOP request to stop extended period in Pennsylvania for returning ballots
WASHINGTON -- Pennsylvania election officials will be allowed to count ballots received up to three days after Election Day after a Monday night Supreme Court ruling. This refuses a Republican request...
Oct 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
Six Russian military officers charged in hacking campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department announced charges Monday against Russian intelligence officers in a string of global cyberattacks that targeted a French presidential election, the Winter Olym...
Oct 19, 2020 AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, pool
Local COVID roundup 10/19: 6 die, over 200 new positives
PEORIA, Ill. -- Long-term care facilities in Peoria and Tazewell Counties over the weekend grieved six deaths related to COVID-19. In Tazewell, a woman in her 80s who lived at Timber Creek Rehab succu...
Oct 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria Police find woman dead in home
PEORIA, Ill. -- A woman was found dead in her home Monday morning in the 2300 block of W. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Peoria Police Detectives received a tip regarding a deceased person inside of the r...
Oct 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 10/19: seven-day positivity rate rises again
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Monday reported 3,113 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 22 additional deaths. The seven-day statewide positivi...
Oct 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
Early Voting breaking records in Tazewell and Peoria Counties
PEORIA, Ill. -- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, early voting has been very popular with local voters so far. Two weeks ahead of the 2020 Presidential Election, Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman said t...
Oct 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump, Biden go on offense in states they're trying to flip
Trump, Biden go on offense in states they're trying to flip (AP) - President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden have been on offense, with each campaigning in states they're trying to fli...
Oct 19, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden arrives to speak during a campaign event at Riverside High School in Durham, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Farmington Central Schools shift to virtual learning due to COVID case
FARMINGTON, Ill. -- Farmington Central Jr. High and Elementary schools will begin remote learning this week after a positive COVID-19 case. The district's website said on Sunday that a staff member wh...
Oct 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
IL governor says Trump partly to blame for COVID-19 spike
CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker says President Donald Trump and his allies in Illinois are partly to blame for the surge in coronavirus cases in the state. Pritzker spoke Sunday on CNN's "State of t...
Oct 19, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
