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WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know to start your day for Thursday, May 4, 2023. You'll hear about another Bloomington nonprofit making changes and reevaluating after a recent fire code inspection. Plus, Alan Sender from the Bloomington-Normal Airport Authority board talks about a proposal to expand the airport's tax base countywide.

Dakota Access Pipeline protesters defy law enforcement officers asking them to leave private land in the path of pipeline construction.

Police Evict Dakota Pipeline Protesters

Police officers, some of them in riot gear, removed protesters who refused to leave private land in North Dakota where a pipeline is supposed to be built.

Waters Begin To Recede, Leaving Disaster In West Virginia

President Obama has declared a major disaster in West Virginia after flooding killed at least 24 people. The town of Rainelle started to clean up today as waters began to recede.

Colorado's largest utility agrees to settle lawsuit over claims it sparked wildfire

Colorado's largest utility company has agreed to pay about $640 million to settle a lawsuit over liability for the state's most destructive wildfire, the Marshall fire in 2021.

With First All-Female Exec Board, Local NAACP Turns Focus To Voting And Gun Violence

When Linda Foster moved to Bloomington-Normal in 1977, she noticed a lack of equal opportunity for minorities. Raised in a family of visionaries and…

Eileen Carroll, left, sits for a portrait as her daughter, Lily, 11, attends school remotely from their home in Warwick, R.I. on Dec. 16. When Carroll's other daughter tested positive for the coronavirus, state health officials told her to notify anyone her daughter might have been around. Contact tracers, she was told, were simply too overwhelmed to do it.

Do-It-Yourself Contact Tracing Is A 'Last Resort' In Communities Besieged By COVID-19

The coronavirus is spreading so fast that cases are outpacing the contact-tracing capacities of some local health departments. Some have asked people who test positive to do their own contact tracing.

Martina Papponetti, 25, a nurse at the Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital in Bergamo, Italy poses for a portrait at the end of her shift, March 27, 2020.

Peoria Hospitals Preparing Now For ICU Patient Surge

The Tri-County hospitals are now reporting the number of COVID-19 related cases in their intensive care units.

Kathy Salvi speaks to supporters at the 2022 Illinois State Fair in Springfield as a candidate for U.S. Senate. Salvi was elected chair of the Illinois Republican Party in 2024.

Which Republicans are seeking statewide office in 2026? So far, hardly any

Politicians set to gather at State Fair this week, unofficially kicking off 2026 election season

Tri-County Urban League President Laraine Bryson testifies before the House Redistricting Committee Friday. Bryson said many of the city's struggles are the result of inaction and neglect.

Peoria Community Members Emphasize Need For Minority Representation In Redistricting

Peoria residents and organizations are making their voices heard as the Illinois House Redistricting Committee begins to determine how to redraw the...

Reza Baluchi was taken in by the U.S. Coast Guard last week while trying to cross the Atlantic in a "hydro pod" made of buoys. Authorities in Flagler County, Fla., responded to Baluchi and his vessel in 2021 and posted photos of his vessel on Facebook.

Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic

It was the fourth time the Coast Guard has intercepted Reza Baluchi on his attempts to self-propel his homemade vessel to destinations including Bermuda, New York and London.

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