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Bad news this week for Knox County Indiana. The county Emergency Management Agency reported that the county did not meet the FEMA criteria for recieving federal disaster relief. The county was

The Knox County Indiana Commissioners this week extended the county emergency declaration due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. That means all county government buildings will remain closed to

109th District State Representative Darren Bailey is among the Illinois House Republican lawmakers in favor of a slow regional opening of the state economy. They say that should occur with such

The Indiana State Department of Health reported 31 more deaths from the coronavirus Wednesday bringing the death toll now to 661. 394 more Indiana residents were diagnosed with the disease with the

The state of Illinois hit another daily high Wednesday with more than 2000 new cases of the coronavirus. In addition to the new infections, another 98 people died from the virus. More than 35,000

The Lawrence County Health Department has recieved notification of the third Lawrence County resident to test positive for the coronavirus. The two previous cases identified a few weeks ago have

Bridgeport Police Wednesday arrested 51 year old Steven Cassem of Bridgeport on a charge of Domestic Battery. He was booked into the Lawrence County Jail and was being held pending the setting of

The Petrolia Water District has rescinded the boil order issued on Monday. That order covered customers in the area of the intersection of CR 1300 North and County Road 800 East going north to

The Illinois Eastern Community College District #529 Board of Trustees met via video-conference Tuesday night. Sutton Dunn was sworn in as the new student trustee to the board. They took several

Knox County is applying for grant money to help its small business community suffering through the COVID-19 pandemic. The county is seeking $250,000 in OCRA funding. Up to $5000 will be made