PONTIAC – One more resident of Livingston County has tested positive for COVID- 19. The Livingston County Health Department say a man under the age of 20 is recovering at home in isolation. As of June 28, 2020, the LCHD has received 2,329 COVID-19 test results. Of that, 45 COVID- 19 tests
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MENDOTA – Mendota District 289, which covers elementary and middle school education in the city, has announced they are waiving all fees for the upcoming 2020-2021 school year. In the announcement made on Friday, the district will not be collecting registration, technology or activity fees
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STREATOR – By October a new building will be standing where medical offices once were in Streator adjacent to the OSF Healthcare facility. OSF announced that a new transportation center is being constructed to house the OSF King Care-A-Van and ambulances from Advanced Medial
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ minimum wage increases to $10 per hour this week. State officials are reminding workers to make sure their paychecks reflect the change. The change takes effect Wednesday as July begins. The increase is part of a multi-year plan to bring the minimum wage
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MORRIS – A Channahon man is dead after a crash on I-80 Sunday afternoon. Authorities say 35-year-old Nathan Oliver Carrol was traveling eastbound near Morris when for unknown reasons he lost control and went down, sliding over 300 feet. The Grundy County Coroner’s Office say he was
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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators have voted to raucous cheers and applause to remove a Confederate battle emblem from their state flag. Mississippi’s House and Senate took historic votes Sunday to retire the flag adopted in 1894.
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Deparement of Public Health says 15 people in the state were reported to have died from Covid-19 on Sunday. According to the department, that’s the fewest deaths since March 30th shortly after the pandemic was declared. The state also says that 646 new
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PEOTONE, Ill. (AP) — Officials say they’re canceling the Will County Fair because of the corornavirus pandemic. The event was scheduled for late August and has been in existence for over a century. The (Kankakee) Daily Journal reports the fair board plans to discuss another event at its
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a third person died Saturday afternoon who was critically wounded in a shooting at a warehouse in central Illinois where the suspect had fatally shot two coworkers before apparently killing himself. Police believe Michael L. Collins opened fire on three
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OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College announced they will be offering three mental health-related seminars online this summer in partnership with Kankakee Community College. The sessions will feature Mark Sanders, a licensed social worker and certified alcohol and drug counselor and
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