SUBLETTE – A farm shed suffered serious damage in a fire in rural Lee County on Wednesday. The Sublette and Amboy Fire Departments were called to the 200 block of Rockyford Road west of Sublette around 5 PM for a metal shed that had a significant fire at one end. It took about five minutes
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PERU – Profiler Phil Chalmers said he will be speaking with Dellmus Colvin again today to try to confirm the date and location of the remains of the person he claims he had killed sometime between 1999-2005 in LaSalle County. The 61-year-old is currently serving a life sentence in an Ohio
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PONTIAC – Twenty-two more residents of Livingston County tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday. That makes up almost half of the 49 active cases the Livingston County Health Department reported. Since the pandemic began, they have recorded four COVID-19 related deaths among residents. All
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By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Research is suggesting that anxiety and depression are rising among Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic. A study published Wednesday is the latest to suggest an uptick. Half of U.S. adults surveyed reported at least some signs of depression. The rate was
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CHICAGO (AP) – Relatives of a man fatally shot by Chicago police after gunshots were fired at an unmarked police car don’t believe he fired those shots and want to see police body camera footage of the incident. Twenty-six-year-old Miguel Vega was pronounced dead hours after police
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By MICHAEL TARM and SCOTT BAUER undefined KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A curfew that’s been in place in Kenosha for more than a week after the police shooting of Jacob Blake has been lifted. The move on Wednesday is another sign of increasing calm in the southeastern Wisconsin city that’s
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URBANA, Ill. (AP) — The University of Illinois is ramping up enforcement of restrictions on student activity after more than 330 COVID-19 cases in two days on the school’s Urbana-Champaign campus. In an email to students, Chancellor Robert Jones said he expects all undergraduates to
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By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois House has formed a special panel to investigate Speaker Michael Madigan, who has been implicated in a federal bribery probe. Republicans petitioned to form the committee earlier this week, saying Wednesday that the House must
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PRINCETON – Bureau and DeKalb Counties both announced additional COVID-19 cases. On Wednesday, Bureau County reported six new cases were recovering at their homes, ranging in age from their teens to their 60’s. DeKalb County also announced 18 additional cases. Since the start of the
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public reported over 2,000 new COVID-19 cases in the state on Wednesday. The 2,128 cases were announced along with 27 additional deaths. Illinois has seen 238,643 cases since the start of the pandemic, as well as 8,091 deaths. The seven-day
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