This newscast aired at 7:04am on 6-12-2025 on WGLT.
From the WGLT Newsroom, I'm John Norton. The federal government has canceled a digital literacy effort that would have supported rural libraries in McLean County. Christine Lau is director of the Carlock Library District. She says that Grant would have provided hotspot devices to connect to the internet anywhere.
The cell service for some of those in the rural areas, it's
It's still not as good as it could be, so we don't know how great they would be, so we haven't invested in
them.
An administrator with McLean County government says it appears the Trump administration canceled the digital equity grant because it had the word equity in the name.
The mayor of Bloomington says he believes there is a need for more regulation of massage businesses to prevent sex trafficking. Dan Brady says the city needs to do more work to see how local regulation fits with existing state rules governing such businesses. But I think we have to be more careful about trying to unduly burden those businesses that are there doing things correctly by the book. The city council delayed action on a proposed massage therapy ordinance after pushback this week from some business owners.
Gun rights advocates are again asking the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the state ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. Capital News Illinois reports attorneys for groups seeking to overturn the law have filed briefs with the appellate court. They want the court to uphold a district court ruling in East St. Louis which says the state law violates the Second Amendment. The briefs are filed just a few days after the US Supreme Court allowed similar bans in Maryland and Rhode Island to stay in place, and a summer camp in Hudson is giving.
With epilepsy, a chance to relax and have some fun with her peers. Carrie Jones leads the Epilepsy advocacy Network, which hostsA Possible at Timber Point Outdoor Center near Lake Bloomington. Epilepsy can often be isolating because it's a disease that a lot of people who don't have it, who haven't been on that journey, they just don't understand. Camp Possible opened to 20 campers aged 7 to 18 from central and northwest Illinois. Jones says the camp allows youth to participate without fear of being excluded or teased if they have a seizure.
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