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A sample of positive coronavirus tests collected over a four-week stretch in July in McLean County and other parts of Illinois showed 95% contained the Delta variant.

Local economic developers are a step closer to improving how they woo companies here, after the Bloomington City Council voted to support a new standardized incentives policy.

Flora Duffy is one of two Bermudian athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympics. The remote set of islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is more than 600 miles from the closest land mass.

Leo Rosten, whose books introduced Yiddish to mainstream America, died Wednesday at the age of 88. Robert talks with Sol Steinmetz, editorial director of the Random House Reference Division and author of YIDDISH AND ENGLISH: A Century of Yiddish in America (University of Alabama Press, 1986). He'll talk about Leo Rosten's influence in making Yiddish words part of the American lexicon.

Four officers who responded to the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol are giving testimony to the newly established, Democratic-led panel investigating the attack.

"For most people, Jan. 6 happened for a few hours," U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell said in the select committee hearing. "But for those of us who were in the thick of it, it has not ended."

A House select committee opens its probe into the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Vaccination mandates take shape across the U.S. A federal opioid trial in West Virginia goes to closing arguments.

Researchers who study evidence of fires through the millennia say to expect more and bigger fires as the climate continues to warm. Fire season is already months longer than in the 1970s.

A civil opioid trial in West Virginia will hold closing arguments on Tuesday. It comes amid the debate over whether corporations will be held accountable for their role in the addiction crisis.

A group of Bloomington-Normal pediatricians is calling for universal masking when schools open in August.