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All McLean County employees who get the COVID-19 vaccine, or present a medical or religious exemption, would get $1,000, under a plan a County Board committee endorsed on Monday.

A UPS delivery driver was among those killed in the crash in Santee, Calif. Two others who were injured were transported to a local hospital.

Abortion-rights activist Patricia Maginnis died earlier this year at age 93. She's a lesser-known figure in the movement, but her ideas — which started as fringe — became mainstream.

A whistleblower says Facebook's algorithms could be stoking tensions and fanning ethnic violence in Ethiopia.

Rivian has hired about 1,000 people in central Illinois in the last three months. As of Monday, the company said it has 3,060 workers at its plant in Normal, easily making the company McLean County's third largest employer, ahead of Country Financial and behind Illinois State University and State Farm.

The Town of Normal said Monday it wants public feedback on how to spend pandemic relief money. The town is making an online survey available to help shape how to use $10.8 million over the next two years.

Three U.S.-based economists are sharing this year's Nobel memorial prize for their work on "natural experiments" which get around the need for controlled experiments.

Heyworth Community Unit School District 4 has pivoted to remote learning because of a coronavirus outbreak. Superintendent Lisa Taylor informed parents of the 934 students in the district on Monday that students will learn online for the rest of the week.

Of the nearly dozen public commenters at Monday night’s Bloomington City Council meeting, more than half criticized Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe’s handling of the vacant Ward 6 seat, unoccupied since Jenn Carrillo stepped down in August.

Researchers at the International Monetary Fund say trillions of dollars in fossil fuel subsidies are making greenhouse-gas-producing fuels cheaper than they should be and making climate change worse.