The scale of the Covid-19 pandemic is exposing the battle scars of the country’s most hardened public health officials.
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Police: Round Lake Park man faces charges for brandishing gun
A 22-year-old Round Lake Park man faces charges for threatening another man with a gun following an earlier road rage incident, police said
Read MoreTwenty-five years after Fox River Grove crash, the healing continues
Four people affected by the Fox River Grove bus/train crash in 1995 — Cary-Grove head girls volleyball coach Patty Griffith Langanis, players from that team Katie Scully Krysh and Kelly Speer Hoffman, and current Huntley head coach Karen Liss Naymola, a freshman at Cary-Grove in 1995 — sat down earlier this week to recall the night two days after the crash when they played a regional championship match at Crystal Lake South. They did so amid a pandemic, so there were masks, no handshakes and no hugs. But there were some tears.
Read MoreIndiana college student killed by stray bullet in Brooklyn
Police say a college student from Indiana has been killed by a stray bullet in New York City
Read MoreNigeria’s police order massive mobilization after unrest
Nigeria’s top police official has ordered the immediate mobilization of all officers to ‘œreclaim the public space from criminal elements masquerading as protesters’� after days of unrest and demonstrations over police abuses that left 69 people dead
Read MoreUS legislators complain to Trump on Mexico energy policy
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has hotly rejected complaints by a group of U.S. lawmakers about government policy favoring state companies in the energy market
Read MoreGuinean president wins a 3rd term, electoral commission says
Guinea’s electoral commission says President Alpha Conde has won a third term with 59.49% of the vote
Read MoreState sets new one-day record for positive COVID-19 tests of 6,161, up 25%
The state Saturday reported 6,161 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease, a 25 percent jump from the previous high set on Thursday in a sign that the recent surge of the illness in the state is continuing unabated.
Read MoreEgypt’s parliamentary vote likely to tighten leader’s grip
Egyptians have begun voting in the first stage of a parliamentary election, in a vote that is highly likely to produce a toothless lower chamber packed with supporters of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi
Read MoreNew York's famous Strand bookstore says it could become a Covid casualty
The Strand has survived almost a century as perhaps New York’s most famous bookstore, with its “18 Miles of Books” earning diehard loyalty from countless tourists and locals alike.
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