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NORMAL — Finding joy in the midst of tragedy was the message shared Thursday with Normal Community West High School students in an effort to encourage more teens to become organ and tissue donors.

BLOOMINGTON — Last summer, graduate student and single mother Katie Schroeder and her son, Cole Akin, relocated from Omaha, Neb., to Bloomington, knowing few people here.

BLOOMINGTON — Hospital visitor restrictions enacted when influenza was widespread in Central Illinois in December have been lifted as the number of flu cases has declined significantly.

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NORMAL — Smoke pouring out of a bathroom cabinet alerted a family to a fire in the garage below the residential area of their house Wednesday night in Normal.

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McLEAN — State wildlife officials are seeking help from village of McLean residents so a young deer that has been behaving as if it were tame and hanging around town can be captured before it or someone else is injured.

NORMAL — Three drivers who took action during what some believe to be a Christmas miracle on Veterans Parkway last December were honored on Tuesday.

BLOOMINGTON — A longtime advocate for the rights of people with disabilities has been named the next executive director of the organization that promotes civil rights and equal opportunities for people with disabilities in McLean, Livingston, DeWitt and Ford counties.