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WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Monday, Feb. 14. You'll hear from U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who dropped by the twin cities this weekend. Plus, PATH Crisis Center in Bloomington will go on a hiring spree this year as it prepares to become a major player in the rollout of the new 9-8-8 national suicide and mental health crisis hotline.

On today's episode, parents sue DFCS and a doctor after the state took her three children over unfounded allegations, Bloomington-Normal educators respond to high absenteeism noted in the latest Illinois school report card, lawmakers and prosecutors in McLean County back a proposal to go after sellers of fentanyl, plus meet the King of Swedes who once ran the city of Bloomington.

On today's episode, you'll hear from a charge nurse in the ICU at Carle BroMenn Medical Center about what this moment of COVID has been like for her and her peers. Also, an interview with Normal City Manager Pam Reece. And a conversation about what happens to all the stuff we leave behind ... and who'd want to buy it.

On today's episode, you'll hear about new data (analyzed by the ACLU) about how often Black drivers get pulled over in Bloomington-Normal. Plus, Normal City Manager Pam Reece talks about building out infrastructure on the town's western edge. And you'll get a preview of the Sweet Corn Circus coming to Uptown Normal this weekend.

Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.

Erdrich's new novel, set in the 1950s, follows a Native American tribe fighting for their rights as the U.S. Congress prepares to terminate their nation-to-nation treaties and land ownership rights.

They're among three lawmakers who were recorded talking in racist terms. And though they've been stripped of assignments and haven't been attending meetings, they're still collecting hefty paychecks.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels, short stories, essays and plays, died in Manhattan Wednesday. He was 84. His most famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five, was an iconic novel born out of his memories of war and its absurdities.

Despite being the first Indian film to win the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival in over 70 years, "All We Imagine As Light" was not nominated for an Academy Award.

A half century after the first lunar mission, a space educator said we have plenty of reason to go back to the moon.Libby Torbeck, flight director at…