SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced that new procedures will be put into place at the check stations across the state during deer season this year due to COVID-19. Hunters are asked to stay in their vehicles and encouraged to arrive with their deer
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PRINCETON – Two individuals from Rhode Island are in custody after a traffic stop by the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team on Wednesday. TRIDENT stated they stopped 36-year-old Leonel A. Rosario of Providence, Rhode Island and 44-year-old Luz N. Torres of Cranston, Rhode Island on
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PRINCETON- The Bureau, Putnam & Marshall County Health Department reported 32 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, as Illinois reports a record high number of infections statewide. They also note two additional cases in Putnam County and seven in Marshall County. Over 1,500 cases of the novel
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PONTIAC – The Livingston County Health Department reports Friday that 44 residents are the latest COVID-19 infections in the county. They also noted two more inmates at the Pontiac Correctional Center have also tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The prison has reported 142 cases
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Black man paralyzed in a Wisconsin police shooting has reached a plea deal to settle a sexual assault case pending against him. Prosecutors in Kenosha charged 29-year-old Jacob Blake in July with sexual assaulting a woman and breaking into her home. Police were trying to
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WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Police reports indicate officers in the Chicago suburb of Waukegan didn’t immediately provide medical aid to a man after a police shooting due to fear that he or his girlfriend might be armed. No gun was recovered but in the reports the officers say they moved
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CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man is being held without bond after being accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend, her mother and her sister after the girlfriend refused to cook him breakfast and braid his hair. Authorities say John Matthews fled to Iowa after the June 22 fatal shooting of
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By DON BABWIN and JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s staff says he is self-isolating and awaiting test results after learning he may have been exposed to the coronavirus during a meeting earlier this week. It’s the third time during the
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By DON BABWIN and JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he isn’t ready to impose drastic lockdown restrictions on the state but has suggested that could happen if the numbers of coronavirus cases keep climbing as fast as they have in recent
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SPRINGFIELD – Over 10,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were announced Friday in Illinois, along with 49 additional deaths. The IDPH also reported that going forward, they will be reporting confirmed and probable cases combined. They define a confirmed case as laboratory confirmed with
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