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Updated:  Tags:  An Illinois woman who ordered flags for her grandmother’s garden got a surprise when the package arrived - someone’s apparent COVID-19 test specimen. Andrea Ellis was wrapping Christmas gifts at her aunt’s house in East Moline, in northwestern Illinois, when she opened a padded envelope containing the flags she ordered weeks ago from the department store chain Kohl’s, according to The Quad City Times. “I pulled out the flags and I told my aunt, ‘Look how cute these are,’” she said. “I pulled out the packing slip and then noticed something deeper inside the...

Illinois Woman Who Bought Flags From Kohl's Also Sent Used COVID-19 Test A used nasal swab found in a biohazard bag appears to belong to a person in Virginia. Sophia Tareen CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois woman who ordered flags for her grandmother’s garden got a surprise when the package arrived — someone’s apparent COVID-19 test specimen. Andrea Ellis was wrapping Christmas gifts at her aunt’s house in East Moline, in northwestern Illinois, when she opened a padded envelope containing the flags she ordered weeks ago from the department store chain Kohl’s, according to The Quad City ...

We’ve heard it before: There are good police, and there are bad police. But there’s another category that may not immediately come to mind when pondering the badged men and women risking their lives for the sake of others. Even Westland’s Deputy Police Chief Brian Miller was initially stumped when asked if there were intrinsic truths about police work that most everyday residents don’t understand. “That’s a big question there,” he said before pausing. “I think that … Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t really have anything very profound to answer to that other than I think 99.9%...

Ellis, who didn’t immediately reply to a Monday phone message from The Associated Press, called the police, who referred the issue to the county health department, according to East Moline police Chief Jeff Ramsey. Janet Hill, the chief operating officer at the Rock Island County Health Department, told the AP that she picked up the biohazard bag over the weekend and that it appeared to contain a used nasal swab and identifying information of a person from Virginia. She said she was figuring out what to do next, including contacting health officials in Virginia and trying to determine if th...