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WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. You'll hear from McLean County's top prosecutor and Republican lawmakers who want to go harder after those who sell fentanyl. Plus, correspondent Edith Brady-Lunny talks about her reporting on a lawsuit targeting the state's child welfare agency.

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. You'll hear about Democrats campaigning at ISU with less than a week to go before the election. Plus, WGLT courts reporter Edith Brady-Lunny talks about mental health in Illinois prisons.

On today's episode, WGLT correspondent Edith Brady-Lunny talks about her reporting on the Rica Rountree child abuse death. In Rica’s case, mandated reporters alerted the state’s child welfare agency of potential serious abuse. They sounded the alarm bell repeatedly, only to have those alarms ignored or not thoroughly investigated by the agency tasked with doing so. Instead, the investigator who mishandled Rica’s case was promoted.

Retelling the stories of aviation pioneers, barnstormers, test pilots, military airmen and NASA scientists and their connections to DeWitt County, “Prairie Flyers: A Century of Aviation in DeWitt County” brings