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State COVID roundup 2/2: Illinois reaches 1M vax mark
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A total of 32,559 COVID-19 vaccine doses were given between Monday and Tuesday to Illinoisans. With that, the state officially surpassed the mark of one million doses adminis...
Jeremy Scott Feb 02, 2021

FBI agents killed in early-morning raid in Florida
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two FBI agents were killed and another three were wounded during an early morning raid on Tuesday at a Sunrise, Florida home as they were executing a court-ordered search warrant...
Julia Bradley Feb 02, 2021

Punxsutawney Phil says 6 more weeks of winter
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his burrow Tuesday morning to forecast there will be six more weeks of winter. Groundhog Day at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, w...
Julia Bradley Feb 02, 2021

Trump aimed mob ‘like a loaded cannon’ at Capitol, Democrats argue in impeachment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nine Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives who will prosecute former President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial will argue that he pointed a mob “lik...
Julia Bradley Feb 02, 2021

Update: Suspect responsible for stabbing officer identified
UPDATE — The Tazewell County Coroner’s Office announced the suspect responsible for stabbing the East Peoria police officer was 19-year old Joshua A. Crites. Crites was shot and killed ear...
Julia Bradley Feb 02, 2021

Resident hospitalized for smoke inhalation after accidental fire
PEORIA, Ill. — The resident of a home at 5622 N. Fountaindale Dr. was hospitalized due to smoke inhalation after a Monday evening fire. Peoria Firefighters responded just before 5:30 p.m. on rep...
Dalton Kemper Feb 01, 2021

Local COVID roundup 2/1: Hospital bed availability increases
PEORIA, Ill. — The Peoria City/County Health Department Monday announced 44 people were in area hospitals with COVID-19 or suspected cases. That’s a decrease of seven from Friday, when 51 ...
Dalton Kemper Feb 01, 2021

Rossi: V70X comes from U.K. variant of COVID-19
PEKIN, Ill. – Illinois’ first known cases of a variant of COVID-19, found in DuPage County, were detected at Pekin’s Reditus Labs last week. Reditus Laboratories CEO Dr. Aaron Rossi ...
Julia Bradley Feb 01, 2021

State COVID roundup 2/1: almost 1 million doses given
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The state of Illinois as of Tuesday is projected to have administered a million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Illinois Department of Public Health on Monday reported 14,422 ...
Jeremy Scott Feb 01, 2021

State COVID roundup 1/31: Positivity dips below 4%
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,428 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases since the pandemic began to 1,126,301. Sunday’s...
Julia Bradley Feb 01, 2021
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