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27 Feb, 2020
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Springfield man is contestant on Wheel of Fortune Wednesday
A Springfield man will appear on Wednesday's episode of Wheel of Fortune which airs on WAND-TV at 6:30 p.m. Eliot Gaines, 50, is a provider service representative for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois.
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Identity made of deceased person found in garage on South State Street

The Sangamon County Coroner's Office has released the identity of a man found in South State Street garage earlier Sunday morning.

Davis, LaHood split with Trump on public broadcasting

The two Republican U.S. House members who represent Springfield - both honorary co-chairs of President Donald Trump's re-election effort in Illinois - disagree with the president's budget concerning public broadcasting.

 
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Central Illinois leads corn and soybean production; numbers down across state due to wet spring

Central Illinois counties led Illinois in corn and soybean production last year as every region and nearly all counties saw decreases in both crops, according to estimates released last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

RESTAURANT REVIEW: SUNRISE CAFE

Name: Sunrise Cafe Address: 1201 S. Second St.

 
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Second Riverton officer resigns over head-butt incident

A second officer has resigned from the Riverton Police Department following an incident where a suspect was allegedly head-butted at the police station.

Ronny Jackson, ex-White House doctor, says he put cauliflower in Trump’s mashed potatoes to improve his diet

WASHINGTON - A former White House doctor says that while he regrets being unable to get President Donald Trump to exercise more, he did manage to slightly improve the president's diet.

Grandfather of 1-year-old who fell to her death from Royal Caribbean cruise ship to plead guilty

The grandfather of a toddler who died after falling from an 11th-floor window of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in Puerto Rico last year will plead guilty in her death.

Congress makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Till

WASHINGTON - Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law.

Seven dead including shooter in rampage at Molson Coors in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE - Seven people were killed including a gunman during a shooting rampage on the Milwaukee campus of Molson Coors on Wednesday afternoon, according to multiple sources who spoke to the Journal Sentinel.