As the University of Illinois men's basketball team gets ready to kick off their season next week, the State Farm Center has made some changes to host teams safely during the Covid-19 pandemic. Gone are the fans, food and access to the floor for anyone but the teams, coaches and game officials.
ALTON - The number of asbestos cases in Madison County and the number of medical malpractice cases in Illinois have dropped, according to the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association which is made up largely of plaintiff's attorneys.
As we inch closer to the first College Football Playoff rankings release on Tuesday, the debate over the final four teams is ramping up. While a handful of Power 5 teams remain undefeated (albeit while playing a different amount of games among them because of the coronavirus pandemic), there are other programs looking to squeeze into a New Year's Six bowl.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana's agriculture commissioner is urging the state's farmers and ranchers to turn in their applications for federal coronavirus assistance ahead of next month's deadline, and he's worried some who are eligible may be missing out on available aid. The U.S.
By Doug Jenkins - WBGZ Radio The Illinois football team is 2-3 on the season after a big win against Nebraska on Saturday in a game you heard here on The Big Z. The Illini - a 16.5-point underdog coming into the game - played well on both sides of the ball and ended up beating the Cornhuskers 41-23.
ST. LOUIS, MO. (WFIE) - During its meeting Friday morning, the MVC Presidents Council reaffirmed its priorities for decision-making regarding COVID-19 matters, which include: health and safety, ethical responsibility in decision-making, student-athlete experience, quality of competition and opportunities for national competitiveness.
HAMPTON - Kim Williams heard a local group of former Peninsula athletes were giving out turkeys and all the trimmings in a box for families in need. The Hampton resident wasn't expecting to receive one herself, but she knew a neighbor who was and would not come for himself.
Question: President John F. Kennedy, assassinated in Dallas 57 years ago today, was in Bloomington four years before that, to attend presidential campaign events in B-N. How was his flight in? Answer: It wasn't pleasant.
Volunteers walk along the sand dunes looking for trash and debris Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020 at a socially distanced beach cleanup at Boca Chica Beach outside of Brownsville, Texas. Hurricane Hanna's and Tropical Storm Beta's storm surges pushed large amounts of trash onto the beach, but the COVID-19 pandemic has restricted local community cleanup efforts.
Many were mothers or fathers. Some worked on farms, others in offices. They loved the outdoors and were guided by faith. When the coronavirus came to Minnesota, they worried about catching it and wore masks. Those living in long-term care facilities had relatives who wondered if they were safe.
This is the soil where, in 1923, her great-grandfather planted 10 mango trees and built a house. Here is the place where geese chased her mother as a child. This is the land the federal government said belonged to Stephanie Lauifi as a Native Hawaiian.
BLOOMINGTON - College students have left for Thanksgiving break and a lot of them won't be coming back until next year. Illinois Wesleyan University students took the last of their final exams and moved out of residence halls on Friday.
Generally, State Farm companies are looking to raise rates by low single-digit percentages from current pandemic-adjusted levels for new and renewal business beginning in early 2021. In Pennsylvania, two State Farm companies are seeking rate increases of 3.3% on books of business with combined annualized premiums of $1.53 billion by raising their COVID-19 premium adjustment factor to 0.97 from 0.90.
After nearly two years of vacancy, the former EM Ford building was purchased by Shane Satterfield to convert to his new State Farm Insurance office. The historic sassafras tree located on the property will remain untouched. Satterfield purchased the property, located at 2100 Frederica St., last week for $375,000 and has plans to move in...
CHAMPAIGN - The Illinois men's basketball team still intends to play on Thanksgiving Day. Who the Illini will actually play, though, is now the question after Wright State announced Friday afternoon it would pull out of the Champaign-based multi-team event set to run next Wednesday through next Friday at State Farm Center.
Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, joined Delaware Farm Bureau President Richard Wilkins on Nov. 20 to accept the Friend of the Farm Bureau Award for the 116th Congress. Carper accepted the award at Delaware Agriculture Museum President Grier Stayton's farm.
As the University of Illinois men's basketball team gets ready to kick off their season next week, the State Farm Center has made some changes to host teams safely during the Covid-19 pandemic. Gone are the fans, food and access to the floor for anyone but the teams, coaches and game officials.
Farm City, hosted virtually this year by the Central Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Nov. 18, focused on the effects of COVID-19 on agriculture, recent heavy rains on farm production and the advantages of buying locally.
It appears Mississippi's deer population is growing and, consequently, hunters are being asked to shoot more deer. "All factors except for statewide harvest point to a population increase," said William McKinley, Deer Program coordinator for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.
The Fulton Montgomery Regional Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting for the Mayfield Conference Center on Nov. 14. Mayfield Conference Center is a multi-purpose community center. They have office space for businesses, co-working space for business professionals and a large hall for events and rentals.