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State COVID roundup 9/30: new cases over 2k
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,273 new cases of COVID-19 throughout the state. Additionally, the Tuesday-Wednesday reporting period saw 35 additional deaths. The ...
Sep 30, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 9/30: Peoria, Tazewell see deaths
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria and Tazewell Counties each experienced a COVID-19-related death in the Tuesday-Wednesday reporting period. Both deaths involved people in their 80s. The Peoria death was of a ma...
Sep 30, 2020 Midwest Communications
Debate commission says it will make changes to format
NEW YORK (AP) - The presidential debate commission says it will soon adopt changes to its format to avoid a repeat of the disjointed first meeting between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden...
Sep 30, 2020 Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP
Ameren upgrades natural gas systems in Peoria County
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria County is benefiting from an Ameren upgrade. Ameren Illinois is currently modernizing its natural gas system delivery that runs through Peoria County. Ameren's Brian Bretsch sai...
Sep 30, 2020 Photo: Ameren
NFL postpones Steelers-Titans game
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Pittsburgh-Tennessee NFL game will be played either Monday or Tuesday due to positive coronavirus test results among the Titans. The NFL announced the switch on Wednesday. ...
Sep 30, 2020 Midwest Communications
Suspect in home invasion/attack arrested in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called just after 4:30 a.m. Tuesday to the 700 block of Spalding regarding trouble with male. Upon investigation, officers determined the suspect forced his way into...
Sep 30, 2020 (Peoria County Jail)
Country star and hit Elvis songwriter Mac Davis dies at 78
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country star and hit Elvis songwriter Mac Davis has died. He was 78. His manager said Davis died on Tuesday after heart surgery. Davis started his career writing hits for Presl...
Sep 30, 2020 FILE - Musician Mac Davis performs at the Texas Film Awards in Austin, Texas on March 6, 2014. Davis, a country star and Elvis songwriter, died on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 after heart surgery. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP, File)
'I Am Woman' singer Helen Reddy dies at 78
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Helen Reddy, the Australian-born singer who scored an enduring hit with her feminist anthem "I Am Woman," has died at 78 in Los Angeles. Reddy's children announced their mother's de...
Sep 30, 2020 FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2015, file photo, Australian-born singer Helen Reddy attends the 2015 G'DAY USA GALA at the Hollywood Palladium, in Los Angeles. Reddy, who shot to stardom in the 1970s with her feminist anthem “I Am Woman” and recorded a string of other hits, has died at age 78. Reddy’s children Traci and Jordan announced that the actress-singer died Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rob Latour/Invision/AP, File)
Update: Teen killed in Woodford County crash identified
UPDATE: Woodford County Coroner Tim Ruestman has identified the victim of the fatal accident on Rt. 89 as 18-year-old Benjamin Bedell, of Brimfield, a student at Illinois Central College. ------------...
Sep 30, 2020 Midwest Communications
Supreme Court Justice choice a main topic of debate Tuesday night
CLEVELAND (AP) -- The first face-off for President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden was over a clash concerning a president's prerogative to put push through an election-year Supreme Cour...
Sep 29, 2020 AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
