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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against an Illinois-based COVID-19 testing company, accusing it of improperly handling tests and providing fake...
Bruce Kropp Jan 31, 2022
Here is the current forecast for the winter storm. Tuesday A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. South wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Tue...
Bruce Kropp Jan 31, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois governor plans to tackle inflation by sparing consumers nearly $1 billion in taxes in the coming year, including freezing taxes on groceries and gasoline and offe...
WJBD Staff Jan 31, 2022
Fire has destroyed a 40 by 60 foot barn on the Jerome Tobin property on North Morrison Lane northeast of Mt. Vernon. Tobin's wife was home at the time and spotted the fire after the barn was already f...
WJBD Staff Jan 31, 2022
A rural Centralia man received apparent head injuries when a tree he was cutting down for firewood on a neighbor's property fell on him. Salem Fire Department Fire Marshal Bill Fulton says the departm...
WJBD Staff Jan 31, 2022 Bryan Alexander / CC
The Illinois Department of Revenue is reminding eligible taxpayers to make sure they claim the Earned Income Tax Credit when they file their returns this year. The Earned Income Tax Credit can mean si...
WJBD Staff Jan 31, 2022
Wamac Police arrested a 27-year-old Centralia man for failure to appear in court on an unlawful restraint charge that earlier sent him to prison. Luke DeClue of East 11th Street was taken to the Mario...
WJBD Staff Jan 31, 2022
Salem Firemen battled two grass fires that were first reported around noon on Sunday. A fire on the Shawn Biven property in the 3600 block of Alma Hatchery Road destroyed a small tractor that had been...
WJBD Staff Jan 31, 2022 =Nahemoth= / CC
CHICAGO (AP) - An indoor garden at the Obama Presidential Center will be named after a 15-year-old Chicago teenager who died in the city's street violence. Obama Foundation officials say it'll be call...
WJBD Staff Jan 31, 2022 BeckyF / CC
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is calling for the release of U.S. Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, who was taken hostage in Afghanistan nearly two years ago. Frerichs is a civil engineer and contrac...
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