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Five Takeaways from Men’s NCAA Top 16 Reveal: Gonzaga Takes Top Spot, Houston Snubbed

With just 22 days until Selection Sunday, the tournament selection committee gave us an early look at where teams stand.

Sports Illustrated · Feb 19, 2022

Gonzaga, Auburn, Arizona and Kansas Lead Men’s NCAA Top 16 Seeds

The selection committee’s annual sneak peek into their bracket thinking was released Saturday.

Sports Illustrated · Feb 19, 2022

US jobless claims rise, concentrated in a few states

Applications for U.S. state unemployment insurance unexpectedly rose for the first time since mid-January, mainly concentrated in a few states in the South and Midwest, while most others declined.

Tribune News Service · Feb 17, 2022

EXCLUSIVE: Midwest Energy Emissions Announces Additional Supply Business With Large Utility Customer

Midwest Energy Emissions Corp (OTC: MEEC) has secured a new supply business with a licensee of the Company's patented Sorbent Enhancement Additive (SEA) technology for mercury emissions capture.  

Benzinga · Feb 1, 2022

Inflation hits Minnesota’s smaller cities, rural areas harder than Twin Cities

With food costs rising faster than he's ever seen, Brett Almich, a third-generation grocery store owner in southwestern Minnesota, spends more time running numbers and deciding how much to raise prices.

Tribune News Service · Feb 1, 2022

New interactive virtual tour brings pediatric inpatients to Field Museum

The Field Museum is the first partner of the WeGo Foundation in the Midwest.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 27, 2022

Midwest Utility Picks NV5 For $8M Geospatial Vegetation Management Contracts

NV5 Global Inc (NASDAQ:NVEE) has received contracts exceeding $8 million from a Midwest electric utility to acquire lidar data and provide remote sensing analytics to mitigate the risk of vegetation-related outages. NV5's lidar and remote sensing analytics solutions identify and map the locations and severity of encroaching vegetation, allowing the utility to optimize…

Benzinga · Jan 25, 2022

Free N95 masks available at Meijer stores across Midwest

Meijer will be providing free N95 masks to store customers across the Midwest to help limit the spread of COVID-19 amidst a record-breaking surge in infections and hospitalizations.

Tribune News Service · Jan 25, 2022

Nearly 10,000 women traveled from out of state to have an abortion in Illinois in 2020 — a 29% increase

CHICAGO — Nearly 10,000 women traveled from out of state to have an abortion in Illinois in 2020, a roughly 29% increase compared with the previous year, according to the most recent Illinois Department of Public Health data available.

Chicago Tribune · Jan 25, 2022

Logistics center will help abortion seekers get to Illinois

With abortion access increasingly restricted across much of the South and Midwest, two Illinois clinics near St. Louis on Friday announced a new logistics center to help abortion seekers get to their clinics

The Independent UK · Jan 21, 2022