MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin labor relations commission has ruled that the UW Health hospital system will not be required to recognize a nurses union or engage in collective bargaining negotiations. The Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission found that UW Health was exempted from collective ...Read more
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up a dispute over a blocked Biden administration policy that would prioritize deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk. Republican-led states sued and won a nationwide ...Read more
By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman who massacred 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket has pleaded guilty to murder and hate-motivated terrorism charges. Payton Gendron’s plea means he’ll spend his life in prison without parole. The ...Read more
By CALEB JONES Associated Press KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Waves of glowing lava and smoky ash are belching and sputtering from the world’s largest active volcano and people on Hawaii’s Big Island have been warned to be ready if their communities are threatened. The ongoing eruption ...Read more
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to pass legislation to intervene and block a railroad strike before next month’s deadline in the stalled contract talks. Biden said Monday that a tentative agreement approved in September ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources will host the annual Christmas Remembrance Ceremony for Illinois soldiers listed as prisoners of war or missing in action during the Vietnam War on Saturday at the Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Oak Ridge Cemetery in ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The time to renew your expired Illinois Driver’s License or ID Card will be drawing to close. The multiple extensions that were offered to the public during the pandemic beginning in 2020 will be ending on Thursday. Online renewals are possible for most residents ...Read more
LASALLE – The city of LaSalle is looking to put regulations on motorized bicycles in town. LaSalle Alderman and former police officer, Bob Thompson, wants to have stricter laws on makeshift motorized bicycles due to safety concerns. Thompson is suggesting all ...Read more
STREATOR – Poco a Poco, the student-based music festival in Streator is having its second annual Christmas Singing Telegram fundraiser. Messages are professionally recorded and sung by Executive Director, professional mezzo-soprano, and Streator-native Kate Tombaugh. The ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois AMBER Alert Task Force commemorates the 20th Anniversary of the first America’s Missing Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) Alert broadcast that took place in LaSalle. The AMBER alert broadcast out of LaSalle happened at 5:35 pm, on novemebr 26th 2002. The ...Read more
