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Speaker 1: From the WGLT newsroom, I'm Ryan Denham. There were 2

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Speaker 1: large No Kings rallies over the weekend in Bloomington and Normal,

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Speaker 1: among the several 1000 happening across the country.

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Speaker 1: At the Bloomington rally, Gary Frieden of Downs said he

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Speaker 1: was protesting the chaos of Trump's two administrations.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you itemized everything that's happened during the

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Speaker 2: two administrations, it's just 300, there's 300 things that you

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Speaker 2: can complain about,

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Speaker 1: Frieden cited the war in Iran and the threatened interventions

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Speaker 1: in Cuba and Greenland as two leading examples. Attendees carried

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Speaker 1: signs addressing issues like immigration, health care, women's rights, and

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Speaker 1: executive overreach.

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Speaker 1: A Tennessee man who chose to represent himself in McLean

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Speaker 1: County Court has been sentenced to decades in prison for

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Speaker 1: a 2023 armed robbery. WGLT's Lauren Wernicke has more. Prosecutors

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Speaker 1: called the results of Marcus Fulks' trial a self-inflicted wound

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Speaker 1: in what was scheduled as a one-hour sentencing hearing late

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Speaker 1: last week that lasted more than 3. Fulks asked for

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Speaker 1: and fired a public defender 3 times, ultimately choosing to

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Speaker 1: represent himself. He says he was denied his constitutional rights

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Speaker 1: in a 2-day bench trial he chose not to attend.

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Speaker 1: Judge Jason Chambers ultimately sentenced Fulks to 35 years in

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Speaker 1: prison for robbing a Bloomington McDonald's at gunpoint, then leading

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Speaker 1: police on a high-speed chase into a bean field outside Carlock.

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Speaker 1: Chambers expressed his frustration, saying Fulks deliberately dragged out the process.

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Speaker 1: He must serve at least half of his sentence and

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Speaker 1: will get credit for the 908 days he spent in

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Speaker 1: McLean County Jail. I'm Lauren Warnke.

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Speaker 1: The Bloomington water director says a facility to inject a

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Speaker 1: material to improve the taste of city water should be

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Speaker 1: up and running early this summer. The water has had

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Speaker 1: periodic bad taste and smell from some naturally occurring chemicals

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Speaker 1: in the lakes that provide city water. Brett Lucien says

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Speaker 1: the city is already using powdered activated carbon in a

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Speaker 1: makeshift operation. We took a

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Speaker 1: Old storage tank and, um, the, the, the crews basically

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Speaker 1: mix us out in the parking lot. So you can

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Speaker 1: only imagine when it's cold, when it's snowing and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, it makes it challenging. Lucian says the recently

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Speaker 1: delivered silo for the powdered carbon will hold a semi

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Speaker 1: load of the substance. You can find more news at WGLT.org.

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Speaker 1: I'm