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The infusion of federal dollars will be released to school districts in the form of grants for "urgent needs."

Sylva Police Department and Livingston Police Department have been selected as recipients of SpeedAlert 18 and Shield 15 radar feedback signs respectively through All Traffic Solutions' ATS Gives Back initiative.

Two messages were placed on the ropes with tape, police said. One read "Let them play!" and the other said "Hear us now! Please!"

Major damaging winds are expected in California this week from the San Francisco Bay area all the way down to Los Angeles.

At least two new variants of the virus — one discovered in Britain and another first detected in Denmark — are now showing up in California.

An incoming Biden administration official warns the United States will pass 500,000 deaths. Officials in Norway say vaccines are safe after at least 33 very ill nursing home residents who were inoculated died.

Tony Goldwyn to host the festivities, also to include college drumlines, Jon Stewart and a reunion of New Radicals

Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the United States is "weeks away, not months away" from fully evaluating new COVID-19 vaccine candidates as President-elect Joe Biden seeks to inoculate 100 million Americans.

North central Illinois is the latest region to have its coronavirus metrics improve enough to allow limited indoor dining.

Regardless of the outcome of his impeachment trial, President Donald Trump should immediately be cut off from intelligence briefings, said the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. "There's no circumstance in which this president should get another intelligence briefing," Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation."

That's a lot of money.

Rep. Charlie Dent wrote, "'Profiles in Courage' is a thin book for a reason." But on Wednesday, at risk of political and personal harm, a small group of Republicans joined with Democrats in impeaching President Trump for the second time.

Governors have declared states of emergency, closed capitols to the public and called up troops ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

President-elect Joe Biden detailed his plans for vaccine distribution. UK variant could become predominant strain in the US by March, CDC warns. Latest news.

Mayor Tyler Evans described being at the Capitol building as "the most exhilarating thing" and euphoric in a video that has now been deleted.

The heightened rhetoric mimics language far-right extremists and white supremacists have used for years.

Illinois researchers say this variant may be more contagious and may have originated in Houston back in May of 2020.

On Saturday, POLITICO reported that Senate Republicans are going into the second impeachment trial of outgoing President Donald Trump without holding a conference or strategizing the issue at all."The Senate GOP has not spoken as a conference for more than two weeks now, since Senate Majority Leader...

A 32-year-old sustained multiple gunshot wounds on the chest and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

A bill awaits Gov. J.B. Pritzker's signature that would replace cash bail with a risk-evaluation system and monitoring for people awaiting trial. Similar laws elsewhere unraveled.