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So how do YOU spend your Lunch Hour?
There are many ways people like to spend their Lunch Hour. My question to you is, do you actually eat lunch on your lunch break? A survey found only one in five people do most of the time. 79% said th...
Mike Stechman Sep 10, 2020

UnityPoint Health opens region’s first hospital-based dialysis center
PEORIA, Ill. — The Central Illinois region’s first hospital-based dialysis center is now open in Peoria. UnityPoint Health opened the center Thursday, Sept. 10, and the hospital can serve ...
Dalton Kemper Sep 10, 2020
Europe’s creative industry slams EU Commission for rewriting copyright rules
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's creative industry has criticised the European Commission's consultation on new EU copyright rules for departing from the original directive agreed last ye...
Syndicated Content Sep 10, 2020

Marigold Festival adapts to keep volunteers and patrons safe
PEKIN, Ill. — Although it will look a little different this year, Pekin’s annual Marigold Festival will go on this weekend. Pekin Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Amy McCoy told WMBD...
Julia Bradley Sep 10, 2020

US layoffs remain elevated as 884K seek jobless aid
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans applying for jobless aid was unchanged last week at 884,000, a sign that layoffs are stuck at a historically high level six months after the viral pandemic fl...
Julia Bradley Sep 10, 2020

14% of Americans say they are planning to do THIS. What is THIS?
September 10, 2020 Q: 14% of Americans say they are planning to do THIS. What is THIS? A: Gamble on the NFL this year
Nancy Flagg Sep 10, 2020 Adobe Stock

Arrest made in eighth homicide of the year
PEORIA, Ill. — A suspect in the Saturday evening shooting of 21-year-old Terrence Dunigan has been arrested. 19-year-old Talya T. Zolicoffer, Jr. was identified as a suspect by detectives assign...
Dalton Kemper Sep 09, 2020

Book: Trump said of virus, ‘I wanted to always play it down’
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump talked privately about the severity of the coronavirus threat even as he was telling the nation the virus was no worse than the seasonal flu and insisting the ...
Jeremy Scott Sep 09, 2020

Local COVID roundup 9/9: nursing home resident dies
PEORIA, Ill. — A Woodford County man in his 80s was reported Wednesday as the most recent area resident to die while sick with COVID-19. The man, according to Peoria City/County Health Departmen...
Jeremy Scott Sep 09, 2020

State COVID roundup 9/9: IDPH reports local death
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health on Wednesday reported 1,337 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, including 30 additional deaths. One of those deaths was the death...
Jeremy Scott Sep 09, 2020
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