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Update: One dead in officer-involved shooting in Fulton County
***UPDATE*** Fulton County Coroner Steve Hines has ID’ed the deceased man as 26-year-old Justin Hammack. Hines said Hammack was shot in the chest. UPDATE: Fulton County Sheriff Jeff Standard con...
Julia Bradley Nov 05, 2020
Local COVID roundup 11/4: positivity % reaches 10
PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria City/County Health Department on Wednesday reported a COVID-19 outbreak at Sharon Healthcare Pines. 40 of Peoria County’s 116 new cases came from the facility. Tazewe...
Jeremy Scott Nov 04, 2020
Trump campaign asking U.S. Supreme Court to halt PA vote counting
WASHINGTON — The campaign of President Donald Trump announced Wednesday it is asking the U.S.’s highest court to step in and stop more votes from being counted in the Commonwealth of Penns...
Jeremy Scott Nov 04, 2020
State COVID roundup 11/04: Over 7,500 new cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Wednesday reported another hefty new case total, including 55 additional deaths. 7,538 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in ...
Dalton Kemper Nov 04, 2020
Illinois’ graduated income tax plan fails
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Voters have rejected a proposal to abolish Illinois’ flat-rate income tax for one that would take a greater share from wealthier taxpayers. It was Gov. J.B. PritzkerR...
Julia Bradley Nov 04, 2020
Pekin’s Luft wins 91st District House seat
PEORIA, Ill. — Pekin Mayor Mark Luft has won Illinois’ Dist. 91 House of Representatives seat, taking 63% of the vote, defeating challenger Josh Grys. Luft told WMBD’s “The Gre...
Julia Bradley Nov 04, 2020
Peoria, Tazewell elections chiefs give postmortem
PEORIA, Ill. — Early on Election Tuesday, electronic pollbooks were delivered to the wrong location, causing a 25-minute delay in voting at Northwest United Methodist Church on War Memorial in P...
Jeremy Scott Nov 04, 2020
Bustos declares razor-thin victory
MOLINE, Ill. — With 99% of precincts reporting late Tuesday night, 17th District Rep. Cheri Bustos declared victory over challenger Esther Joy King. At the time of her declaration, the Congressw...
Jeremy Scott Nov 04, 2020
Pres. Trump vows Supreme Court action
WASHINGTON D.C. — In an early Wednesday morning speech from the White House, President Donald Trump expressed confidence about his standing in the election, while threatening legal action. ̶...
Jeremy Scott Nov 04, 2020
Koehler wins state senate race costing nearly $4M
PEORIA, Ill. — In the most expensive State Senate race of 2020 in all of Illinois, 46th District Senate incumbent Democrat Dave Koehler fended off Republican challenger and Tazewell County Treas...
Jeremy Scott Nov 04, 2020

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