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Voters struggling with witness rules in early votingSep 25, 2020 7:00 am - RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - As the pandemic prompts a surge in voting by mail, voters in a handful of states, including the presidential battlegrounds of North Carolina and Wis...
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Health officials urge use of masks as some resrictions easedSep 25, 2020 7:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana health leaders say the wearing of face masks will be as important as ever to stem the coronavirus spread, even as most of the statewide restr...
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Biden's Scranton vs. Park Ave. appeal targets working classSep 25, 2020 7:00 am - Joe Biden stood on the floor of a Wisconsin aluminum plant this week, shed the trappings of his decades in national politics and then took aim at the billionaire New Yor...
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Girl dies after siblings, mother pulled from burning homeSep 25, 2020 7:00 am - FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - A 2-year-old girl who was among three children and their mother pulled Thursday from a burning home in northeastern Indiana has died, the local c...
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Virus cases rise in US heartland, home to anti-mask feelingsSep 25, 2020 7:00 am - MISSION, Kan. (AP) - It began with devastation in the New York City area, followed by a summertime crisis in the Sun Belt. Now the coronavirus outbreak is heating up fas...
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Days after man's death, funeral home finds bullet woundSep 25, 2020 7:00 am - CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) - Days after a 75-year-old man died, staff at a northwest Indiana funeral home discovered a bullet hole in his body, leading a coroner to rule tha...
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Pritzker, GOP leaders ramp up graduated tax debate after threat of 20% increaseSep 25, 2020 1:00 am - In dueling press briefings Friday, Illinois House Republican leaders said the Pritzker administration "threatened" a big tax increase if voters don't approve a graduated...
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Lightfoot defends using electronic billboards honor Breonna TaylorSep 25, 2020 1:00 am - Mayor Lori Lightfoot was accused Friday of "hijacking" the city's access to electronic billboards for public service announcements to make a "political statement" to rem...
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Illinois records 25 more COVID-19 deaths, another 2,514 infectedSep 25, 2020 1:00 am - State health officials reported 25 more COVID-19 deaths today, as well as 2,514 more new cases of the disease. That brings the state's death toll to 8,563 since the outb...
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IU chief to ask trustees to strike name of eugenics backerSep 24, 2020 7:00 am - BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - The president of Indiana University announced Thursday he will recommend the school's trustees remove from the Bloomington campus the name of on...