CHICAGO — COVID-19 cases are rising to the point where face masks are now recommended in most of Illinois, including Cook County and Chicago.
Cook County health officials detailed their guidelines in a live update on their Facebook page Friday. …
Cubs trade 4-time All-Star, 2016 MVP Kris Bryant to the Giants
CHICAGO – In the end, one of the Cubs’ greatest homegrown players in a generation will not be with the franchise for his entire career.
Surrounded by trade rumors the past two years, the team indeed dealt Kris Bryant away …
Mudslides force more than 100 to spend night on Colorado highway
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — More than 100 people had to spend the night on a highway, including nearly 30 who took refuge in a tunnel, after rain over an area burned by a wildfire once again triggered mudslides in western …
2 girls missing from Merrillville found safe
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. — A Silver Alert was cancelled early Saturday after two young girls missing from Northwest Indiana were found safe.
Authorities did not provide additional information.…
Man charged with beheading woman in Minneapolis suburb
SHAKOPEE, Minn. (AP) — A man is charged with beheading a woman while they were in a car in traffic in a Minneapolis suburb.
Alexis Saborit was charged Friday with second-degree intentional murder in the knife attack on America Thayer, …
Unassuming home selling with entire ‘authentic 1800s Western town’ in backyard
(NEXSTAR) — It’s got three bedrooms, five bathrooms, and an entire Wild West ghost town.
A unique listing in Woodinville, Washington, is generating interest from multiple prospective buyers after hitting the market only a few weeks ago, thanks in part …
Broadway Chicago waiting to see if they will require vaccinations for shows
CHICAGO — As the saying goes, the show must go on.
Broadway in New York recently announced that you’ll need to be vaccinated to attend a show. Back home, Broadway in Chicago is hedging a bit.
Doors do not open …
‘I should have gotten the damn vaccine’: Las Vegas father of 5 who later died of COVID-19 texts from hospital bed
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A Las Vegas father who contracted COVID-19 while on vacation texted his fiancee from the hospital, “I should have gotten the damn vaccine,” she later told Nexstar’s KLAS.
Michael Freedy, 39, a father of five, and …
$1 trillion infrastructure plan clears another Senate hurdle
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate further advanced a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure plan Friday with a bipartisan group of senators helping it clear one more hurdle and bracing to see if support can hold during the next few days of …
Mississippi man encourages others to get vaccinated after losing leg to COVID-19
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Bryan Thompson has a whole new outlook on life after beating the coronavirus. He said he’s never been in the hospital before or had any health issues until COVID-19.
“I had to have my leg amputated …