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Court-related charges and violations of parole and probation make up the bulk of weekend bookings. Others include assault, theft and drug-related charges.

Boyd County Detention Center • Alisha S. Litteral, 41, of Ashland, was booked Friday on two counts of trafficking in a controlled substances and two counts of possession of a controlled substance. • Amanda S. Spencer, 36, of Ashland, was jailed Friday on a failure to appear. • Christopher S. Brown, 26, of Ashland, was lodged Friday on a probation violation. • Swayne K. Jones, 56, was booked Friday on alcohol intoxication in a public place. • James L. Fitzgerald, 32, of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The first person reported to have died from COVID-19 in Illinois lived in Auburn Gresham. A year later it is one of the citys most hard-hit communities in terms of both human loss and economic impact. In February of 2020 a former Save-A-Lot closed its doors to the public. A couple months later it has found a new purpose as a food and PPE distribution center as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. "All of our work which weve done for nearly 20 years is now focused on saving lives an...

Andrew Harnik/AP Photo WASHINGTON — One year after the nation was brought to a near-standstill by the coronavirus, President Joe Biden is outlining his plan Thursday evening to make all adults vaccine-eligible by May 1 and get the country “closer to normal” by the Fourth of July. He’s using his first prime-time address to offer Americans fresh hope and appeal anew for their help. Speaking in the White House East Room, Biden will announce moves to speed vaccinations, including directing ...

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Provided March 2 would have been the late Wanda Bailey’s 64th birthday. Bailey’s sister, the late Patricia Frieson, would have been 62 on Nov. 27, had the retired nurse not succumbed on March 16, 2020, to the novel coronavirus, a disease declared a global pandemic five days earlier. Frieson, the sixth daughter in an African American family of nine siblings from Chicago’s Auburn-Gresham neighborhood, became the first person to die of COVID-19 in Illinois. The nation’s first known COVID ...

UpdatedThu, Dec 31, 2020 at 3:20 pm CT Replies(55) 2020 has been one for the history books. Heres a look back at whats happened in Illinois. (Lorraine Swanson/Patch) ILLINOIS — Its been a year for the history books, with so many unprecedented events — from a global pandemic, civil unrest across the country and a hotly contested presidential election to the legalization of recreational marijuana and a fast-tracked vaccine for the virus. As 2020 comes to a close, were looking back at some of ...

Just a bit. thank you so much. meanwhile, back here the palmetto state made history with that confederate flag coming down that had flown here for more than five decades ago was removed from state house grounds here. i am joined now by wanda bailey as we play back for viewers and listeners at home when the flag came down wanda bailey who worked with strom thurman, and he was the third longest serving senator in the usa, and also known for being americas biggest segregationist back in the 1960s. ...

African-americans. and up until today, there has been a sense of relief because of that. not just during the jim crow era of slavery, this has been lifelong. so now with the flag being taken down, thank you that it is a new day. it is absolutely a new day. >> wanda, you were there, auzs you mentioned, with the governor when she signed the bill. she used nine pens one for each victim in the massacre. what has the governor said? >> i havent talked to her personally, but she stepped up and did a re...