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Lawmakers halt bill to stop employer-mandated vaccinesFeb 03, 2021 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana lawmakers are pulling the plug on a bill that would prohibit employers from requiring workers from getting immunizations against COVID-19 or ...
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Indiana lawmakers push for expanded nursing home visitationFeb 03, 2021 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana lawmakers are seeking to change visitation restrictions at the state's health and residential care sites amid concerns about residents' decli...
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Indiana easing school rules for COVID-19 quarantinesFeb 03, 2021 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana health officials are allowing schools across the state to relax their quarantine rules for students with coronavirus exposure even as they of...
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Pritzker diverts federal program vaccine to other prioritiesFeb 03, 2021 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois public health officials said Wednesday that they will divert unused COVID-19 vaccine doses intended for long-term care facility residen...
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Republicans propose recall, repeal measuresFeb 03, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Republican lawmakers from both chambers of the General Assembly are promoting three legislative proposals to give voters greater authority to amend the sta...
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'Mentally I feel better': Second mass vaccination site opens in Cook County.Feb 03, 2021 12:00 am - Illinois set a new daily record for COVID-19 vaccinations, with 65,166 people getting them in the last 24 hours, climbing above the seven-day average of 45,787, the Illi...
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Prosecutors: Kyle Rittenhouse violated bail conditions, should be arrestedFeb 03, 2021 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. — Prosecutors asked a judge Wednesday for a new arrest warrant for an Antioch teen charged with shooting three people, killing two of them, during an anti-...
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Police: Michigan man backed van into Indiana fire departmentFeb 02, 2021 6:00 am - ELKHART, Ind. (AP) - A Michigan man is accused of backing a van into a northern Indiana city's fire department after he first tried unsuccessfully to crash it into a nea...
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Correction: Virus Outbreak-Illinois storyFeb 02, 2021 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - In a story February 1, 2021, about COVID-19 vaccinations in Illinois, The Associated Press erroneously reported that 996,410 people have receive...
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Indiana House member returns from COVID-19 hospitalizationFeb 02, 2021 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A longtime Indiana lawmaker has returned to the Legislature after being hospitalized with COVID-19. Democratic Rep. Vanessa Summers of Indianapolis t...