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Morton High School records no COVID positives for first time this year
		MORTON, Ill. — Morton District 709 is making strides as it relates to COVID-19 positives within the school district. For the first time this school year, no student positives were recorded Frida...
			
				Dalton Kemper				Sep 20, 2020							
		Double shooting early Sunday morning in Peoria
		PEORIA, Ill. – Peoria emergency crews responded to reports of gunshot wounds to multiple victims early Sunday morning on the South Side of Peoria. A ShotSpotter alert indicated 20 rounds were fi...
			
				Dalton Kemper				Sep 20, 2020							
		Mail-in ballots being sent out beginning Thursday
		PEORIA,Ill. — Requests for mail-in ballots have been out several weeks now, and on Thursday, September 24, election officials will start mailing those ballots. Peoria County Election Commission&...
			
				Julia Bradley				Sep 19, 2020							
		BCDI plans move to former Midstate College campus
		PEORIA, Ill. — The former Midstate College campus on Northmoor in Peoria will soon be home to the Blood and Clotting Disorders Institute. BCDI is recognized as one of the top hemophilia treatmen...
			
				Julia Bradley				Sep 18, 2020							
		CDC changes course, says to get tested if previously in contact with infected person
		NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. health officials on Friday dropped a controversial piece of coronavirus guidance and said anyone who has been in close contact with an infected person should get tested. The Cente...
			
				Dalton Kemper				Sep 18, 2020							
		Local COVID roundup 9/18: elderly woman dies
		PEORIA, Ill. — A Tazewell County woman in her 80s has succumbed to COVID-19. The Peoria City/County Health Department reported Friday she lived at Villas at Hollybrook in Pekin. The department d...
			
				Jeremy Scott				Sep 18, 2020							
		State COVID roundup 9/18: testing hits 60k
		SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — After two straight days of over 50,000 tests performed throughout the state, the Illinois Department of Public Health said Friday there had been over 60,000 specimens taken b...
			
				Jeremy Scott				Sep 18, 2020							
		War hero to kick off Vietnam Wall ceremony
		EAST PEORIA, Ill. — Not only will the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall be on display next week in the Levee District of East Peoria, but the opening ceremony will feature a decorated guest. Lt. C...
			
				Jeremy Scott				Sep 18, 2020							
		PHS Football Coach speaks on #LetUsPlay
		PEORIA, Ill. — Many Illinois families have been asking for high school sports to be played this fall, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker doesn’t have any plans to allow that to happen. “I’...
			
				Dalton Kemper				Sep 17, 2020							
		US judge blocks Postal Service changes that slowed mail
		SEATTLE (AP) - A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked controversial Postal Service changes that have slowed mail nationwide, calling them "a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Serv...
			
				Jeremy Scott				Sep 17, 2020							
		
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