PEORIA -- Though the timing is not clear, long-term care facilities in Illinois will soon be allowing outdoor visits between residents and their loved ones.

ROANOKE - Libraries might be quiet, but they aren't necessarily funereal.

BRIMFIELD -- A Knox County man was wanted after he was accused of pulling a knife on a Brimfield convenience-store employee, authorities stated.

(NOTE: Nick in the Morning is taking a two-week vacation. We hope COVID-19 takes a permanent vacation from us, and from you, too.

Juneteenth observances on Friday marked the 155th anniversary of the date Black slaves in Texas -- at the farthest reaches of the Confederacy -- learned they were free.