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State COVID roundup 5/31: Just 521 new cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Monday reported just 521 new cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 33 additional deaths. It’s the lowest number of CO...
Dalton Kemper May 31, 2021
Brazil to host Copa America as pandemic-hit Argentina withdraws
ASUNCION/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Copa America soccer tournament will take place in Brazil next month, the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) said on Monday, thanking President Jai...
Syndicated Content May 31, 2021
Rallying-Dakar greats Peterhansel and Sainz join electric Audi for 2022
(Reuters) - 'Mr Dakar' Stephane Peterhansel and triple champion Carlos Sainz have joined Audi's bid to win the 2022 edition of the endurance rally with an electric prototype, the Volkswagen-owned manu...
Syndicated Content May 31, 2021
Tennis-Medvedev gets monkey off his back with first French Open win
PARIS (Reuters) - Daniil Medvedev's first-ever victory at the French Open on Monday has banished any doubts the second seed may have had about his chances at the claycourt Grand Slam, filling him with...
Syndicated Content May 31, 2021
Dye & Durham gets C$3.4 billion offer from management-led group
(Reuters) - Dye & Durham Ltd, a Canadian cloud-based software maker, has received a buyout offer from a management-led shareholder group worth about C$3.4 billion ($2.8 billion), less than a year afte...
Syndicated Content May 31, 2021
Gbagbo plans to return home to Ivory Coast on June 17
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo plans to return home on June 17 following his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, his p...
Syndicated Content May 31, 2021
Chief editor of Belarus news outlet charged in tax case, colleagues say
KYIV (Reuters) - One of Belarus's few independent news sites, TUT.BY, said on Monday its editor-in-chief Marina Zolotova had been charged in a tax evasion case that it said was fabricated as part of a...
Syndicated Content May 31, 2021
Indigenous groups call for Canada to identify graves after remains of 215 children found
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Indigenous groups in Canada are calling for a nationwide search for mass graves at residential school sites after the discovery of the remains of 215 childre...
Syndicated Content May 31, 2021
Peru almost triples official COVID-19 death toll after review to 180,000
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru on Monday revised its official COVID-19 death toll to 180,764, almost triple the previous official figure of 69,342, following a government review that shows the severity of the ...
Syndicated Content May 31, 2021

Monday morning apartment fire causes $20,000 in damage
PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Firefighter/Paramedics were dispatched Monday morning around 4:40 a.m. to 6831 N. Frostwood Pkwy on reports of smoke in a two-story apartment building. Once they arrived, f...
Dalton Kemper May 31, 2021
Peoria, IL, USA
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