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NFL-For fans Super Bowl no longer a game, it's an 'experience'
PHOENIX (Reuters) - In just a half-century of evolution the Super Bowl has gone from sports event, to America's biggest party, to a week long and very expensive immersive "experience". That includes n...
Will Stevenson Feb 12, 2023 Workers prepare the stadium for Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona, U.S., February 11, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
NFL-Indigenous activists to protest Kansas City Chiefs name, 'tomahawk chop'
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Native American groups are expected to protest the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, calling for the AFC champions to drop their name and logo as they take on the Philadelphia Eagles i...
Will Stevenson Feb 12, 2023 FILE PHOTO: An employee cleans a large Kansas City Chiefs football helmet that people pose for photos with at The Super Bowl Experience Presented By Lowe's event ahead of the weekend's Super Bowl LV between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa, Florida, U.S., February 3, 2021. REUTERS/Eve Edelheit
U.S. fighter jet shoots down unidentified cylindrical object over Canada
WASHINGTON/OTTAWA (Reuters) -A U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down an unidentified cylindrical object over Canada on Saturday, the second such instance in as many days, as North America appeared on edge f...
Will Stevenson Feb 12, 2023 A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor, based out of Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, flies alongside a KC-135 Stratotanker during an aerial refueling mission above an undisclosed location, in this undated handout picture released by U.S. Air Force on July 29, 2019. Chris Drzazgowsk/U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS
NFL-Eagles and Chiefs to make history but Super Bowl up for grabs
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Two brothers and two Black quarterbacks will mark very different firsts on Sunday when the National Football League's two best teams, the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles...
Julia Bradley Feb 11, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Feb 8, 2023; Scottsdale, AZ, USA; Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) addresses the media during team availability at Hyatt Regency at Gainey Ranch. Mandatory Credit: Cheryl Evans-USA TODAY Sports
FBI searches and finds one additional classified record in Pence's home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI recovered one additional government page with classified markings during a consensual search on Friday at the Indianapolis residence of former Vice President Mike Pence, ...
Julia Bradley Feb 11, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence gives a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, U.S., October 19, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Part of Peoria street re-named for retired Manual band director
PEORIA, Ill. - A retired high school band director in Peoria is the latest to receive his own street name in the city. A ceremony was held Friday to rename the area around Ann and Griswold near Manual...
Will Stevenson Feb 10, 2023 (City of Peoria)
Bond set in West Peoria homicide case
PEORIA, Ill. - Bond has been set at $1.75 million for the Decatur man accused of shooting another Decatur man in the parking lot of a West Peoria gas station last month. Court records indicate a judge...
Will Stevenson Feb 10, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
State COVID-19 numbers somewhat even with last week
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The number of new COVID-19 cases in the State of Illinois is a little flat. The Illinois Department of Public Health says there were about 10,200 new cases in the last week -- down...
Will Stevenson Feb 10, 2023 (Centers for Disease Control)
UPDATE: U.S. says it shot down object over Alaska, size of small car
UPDATED 6:21 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. F-22 fighter jet on Friday shot down an unidentified object flying over Alaska, U.S. officials said, less than a week after the military brought down a C...
Will Stevenson Feb 10, 2023 FILE PHOTO: John Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, answers questions during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
'Tired of being abused:' Watchdog report shows Choate patients forced to handle own excrement
This article was produced for ProPublica's Local Reporting Network in partnership with Lee Enterprises, along with Capitol News Illinois. (Capitol News Illinois) - Newly released reports from the Illi...
Will Stevenson Feb 10, 2023 (Illustration by ProPublica. Source Images: Whitney Curtis for ProPublica and Illinois Department of Human Services Office of the Inspector General case summary)