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State high court finds medical personnel exemption to biometric information privacy law
(Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday ruled the state's strongest-in-the-nation biometric information privacy law does have an exemption: health care workers who use fingerp...
Nov 30, 2023 Justice David K. Overstreet wrote the unanimous opinion for a case in which the Illinois Supreme Court found that the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act does not apply to health care workers required to use fingerprint scanners to dispense medicine. (Capitol News Illinois illustration by Andrew Adams)
US, partners target North Korea with sanctions following satellite launch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday targeted North Korea with fresh sanctions after its launch of a spy satellite last week, designating foreign-based agents it accused of facilitatin...
Nov 30, 2023 North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un meets with members of the Non-Standing Satellite Launch Preparation Committee, in this picture released by the Korean Central News Agency on November 24, 2023. KCNA via REUTERS/File Photo
Illinois Supreme Court: FOID records exempt from public disclosure
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that people may obtain records about their own Firearm Owners Identification cards, but they may not use the state...
Nov 30, 2023 Justice Joy V. Cunningham wrote the unanimous opinion that found the Illinois State Police can deny records requests for details about Firearm Owner’s Identification Cards, even if the requester is seeking their own records. (Capitol News Illinois illustration by Andrew Adams)
Pfizer is sued by Texas over COVID vaccine claims
(Reuters) -Pfizer has been sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who on Thursday accused the drugmaker of misrepresenting the efficacy of its widely-used COVID-19 vaccine. In a complaint filed in...
Nov 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Pfizer logo is seen in this illustration taken, May 1, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
1 injured after fire damages home near Peoria Airport
PEORIA, Ill. - One man is believed to be hurt after a house fire Thursday afternoon near the Greater Peoria International Airport. Limestone Township Fire officials say the blaze broke out around 1:00...
Nov 30, 2023 (25 News)
Morton Community Chorus spends Thanksgiving holiday performing at Carnegie Hall
MORTON, Ill. - A central Illinois group spent their Thanksgiving holiday performing on one of the grandest stages for music in the world. The Morton Community Chorus were part of a performance Sunday ...
Nov 30, 2023 (Distinguished Concerts International New York)
Hamas hands over two female hostages, others expected after truce extended
GAZA/TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Hamas on Thursday handed two female hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza City's central Palestine Square and further hostages are expected to be released later in the evening fol...
Nov 30, 2023 Palestinians shops in an open-air market near the ruins of houses and buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes during the conflict, amid a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip November 30, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Illinois Supreme Court strikes down Peoria woman's request for a reduced sentence in 2001 murder
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Peoria woman's attempt to have her sentence reduced in a 20-year-old murder case, despite a plea deal, has been turned down by the Illinois Supreme Court. The state's high court ...
Nov 30, 2023 Ronald and Angela Wells (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois Department of Corrections)
UPDATE: Fire at Morton bank location causes damage
UPDATED 3:02 P.M. MORTON, Ill. - A car fire Thursday afternoon caused damage to a branch of Morton Community Bank. Morton Fire Chief Joe Kelley says crews responded to the fire in the drive-thru telle...
Nov 30, 2023 Fire crews take care of a fire that started in the drive-through lane of the Morton Community Bank location at Main and Detroit in Morton. (TJ Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria man arrested on weapons and other charges following traffic stop
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man faces a host of weapons and other charges, including Armed Violence, after a traffic stop on N. Bigelow. Around 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Peoria Police conducted a traffic stop ...
Nov 30, 2023 Richard Sellers III (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
