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WASHINGTON (AP) — Dealing the White House a stinging setback, a government advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected a plan Friday to give Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots across the board, and instead endorsed the extra vaccine dose only for those who are 65 or older or run a high risk of severe disease.
The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse case indicated to attorneys Friday that despite the firestorm that has grown around the case, he will be keeping the focus on the law.
PARIS (AP) — America’s oldest ally, France, recalled its ambassador to the United States on Friday in an unprecedented show of anger that dwarfed decades of previous rifts.
Police are not saying whether they know the motive for the shooting.
BATON ROUGE, La. -- A child is among the latest to die from COVID-19 in Louisiana, state health officials said Friday.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal circuit court has rejected a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency statewide Idaho permit involving pollution into waterways from large dairy farms.
BATON ROUGE, La. -- A child is among the latest to die from COVID-19 in Louisiana, state health officials said Friday.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Republican officials are warning President Joe Biden of legal action if his proposed coronavirus vaccine requirement for about 100 million Americans goes into effect.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kids across the U.S. are posting TikTok videos of themselves vandalizing school bathrooms and stealing soap dispensers and even turf from football fields, bedeviling school administrators seeking to contain the viral internet trend.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A grand jury has indicted two central California police officers on felony assault charges in the alleged beating of a Black teenager so severe that he was left with massive bruising on his face, the San Joaquin County district attorney announced Friday.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The knock on the door that Kristen Bigogno has long dreaded finally arrived Friday — two St. Louis deputies came to evict her, joined by a couple of other men there to change the locks on the apartment.
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This week's local crime and court updates from Journal Gazette/Times-Courier.
The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse case indicated to attorneys Friday that despite the firestorm that has grown around the case, he will be keeping the focus on the law.
Police are not saying whether they know the motive for the shooting.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge ruled Friday that prosecutors can't argue that a man who shot three people during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin is affiliated with the Proud Boys or that he attacked a woman months before the shootings, bolstering his position as he prepares for…
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City, Missouri man, has been sentenced to nearly 50 years in prison for causing a fatal crash while he was fleeing from law enforcement officers in Kansas.
One of the defendants was allegedly in possession of firearms as a felon, approximately 226 grams of meth, and U.S. currency.
A Westervelt woman faces three counts of aggravated driving under the influence in connection with a Friday evening collision in Shelby County that resulted in the death of two people.
The Mattoon Police Department is seeking help from the public to identify two people.
Jeffrey M. West of Mattoon has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for acts involving the sexual exploitation of children.
Illinois video gaming terminals generated nearly $2 billion in revenue in the fiscal year that ended June 30.
Illinois cities have upped the ante, pushing a penny “amusement push tax” on each bet placed on video gaming terminals.
Illinois' new energy law sets end dates for fossil-fuel power plants, but fails to address the state’s biggest source of climate-changing pollution: coal mining.
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday mandated COVID-19 vaccinations for all workers on his reelection effort, a move aimed at drawing attention to the differences between his handling of the pandemic and his Republican challengers, who oppose coronavirus mitigation mandates.