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7 May, 2020
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Dump truck driver charged with DUI
An Auburn man has been hit with numerous felony charges after he struck and killed a 62-year-old woman with his dump truck outside the Casey's General Store in Auburn on Monday.
The latest this morning
COVID-19 update: Illinois State Fair ‘highly unlikely,’ Latinos testing at highest rates

State reports 2,270 new COVID-19 cases, 136 additional deaths

13 new COVID-19 cases in Sangamon County

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Sangamon County rose by 13 to 241, officials said Wednesday.

 
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Advocates ask state lawmakers for improved cancer policy

Illinois lawmakers heard from cancer advocates Tuesday who asked for improvements to two state programs. More than 100 cancer patients and survivors from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network urged legislative action that would require the Illinois Medicaid program to cover the routine care costs for Medicaid enrollees in cancer clinical trials.

State reports 2,270 new COVID-19 cases, 136 additional deaths

An additional 2,270 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Illinois in the past 24 hours, and there were 136 more deaths from the disease, state officials said Wednesday during a news briefing in Chicago.

 
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House GOP says Pritzker reopening plan won’t work

House Republicans criticized Gov.

District 186 educator, administrator of the year named

Martha Jordan and Arwah Franklin had a feeling they would be educators since they were kids.

What’s next for central Illinois under the reopening plan?

The state's current stay at home order represents progress in the effort to resume normalcy, Gov.

Many coronavirus mutations are circling the globe, but we don’t know if any are more dangerous

SAN FRANCISCO - The coronavirus is mutating as it spreads across the planet, with a strain that may first have appeared in Europe becoming dominant in many areas even as new ones appear.

‘Where’s the beef?’

"Where's the beef?" has been a marketing slogan associated with Wendy's for more than three decades, but customers have literally been asking the question in recent days as the Dublin, Ohio-based fast food chain fights COVID-19-related meat shortages.