House special committee investigating Madigan meets

WASHINGTON - Try as he might to change the subject, President Donald Trump can't escape the coronavirus.

More than half of the 28 new coronavirus cases reported Thursday in Sangamon County involve people younger than 30.Of those cases, 11 were teens and four people in their 20s.

Will and Kankakee counties must lower their rolling COVID-19 test positivity rate by about one more percentage point before restrictions on economic activity can be lifted, Gov.

BOSTON - The same Russian military intelligence outfit that hacked the Democrats in 2016 has attempted similar intrusions into the computer systems of more than 200 organizations including political parties and consultants, Microsoft said Thursday.

WASHINGTON - Amid a political crisis of his own making, President Donald Trump headed for the support of a rally in battleground Michigan on Thursday, trying to move past revelations that he had been determined to play down the danger of the coronavirus last winter despite describing it in private as "deadly stuff.

WASHINGTON - A scaled-back GOP coronavirus rescue package appears certain to fail in a Senate test vote Thursday as the bipartisan spirit that powered earlier relief bills has given way to election-season political combat and name-calling.

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week at 884,000, a sign that layoffs remain stuck at a historically high level six months after the viral pandemic flattened the economy.

Re-establishing the DEW CHILLI PARLOR among Springfield's landmark dining spots was only the first phase of John Leskovisek and Mike Monseur's business plan.

Seniors Lauren Blair and Mary Clare Mizeur and sophomore Lindsey Madonia won two events apiece as Sacred Heart-Griffin High School beat Lincoln 91-22 on Thursday in a girls swimming and diving meet at Eisenhower Pool.