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>> reporter: here in calhoun county, arkansas, the vaccination rate is among the lowest in the state. victoria works at the town feed store and says she's had people buying a gel meant for deworming horses that they're uses to treat covid. so they'll take a horse gel. >> yes and put it on a cracker. >> reporter: but they won't take a vaccine that has undergone clinical trials? >> isn't that crazy. >> reporter: it's meant for horses, not humans. but a lot of humans have tried it and they've wound up in the hospital. it is not approved to treat cvid. so the f.d.a. warns don't do it. norah. >> o'...

Prospective buyers look at Robbie's Restaurant and Augie's Front Burner in Springfield, Illinois

ROCKFORD — Standing 16 feet tall, he has towered over a busy northwest side thoroughfare for more than a half-century beckoning passersby to stop and shop. He's dressed in blue bib overalls, a red shirt and blue cap as he pours grain from a bin that is raised high above his shoulders.  Say hello to Wayne, the face of Wayne's Feed Store, 3435 Auburn St., for nearly 60 years. “We just wanted something different that would stand out,” Wayne's Feed Store manager Fred Hoople said. “The plywood on it has been replaced twice since we’ve had it for the last 57 years, and we repaint...

'A real cultural loss': Augustana Professor Roald Tweet inspired students in and out of the classroom Jim Meenan, Thomas Geyer and Courtney Crowder © TODD MIZENER/Quad-City Times Roald Tweet, retired Augustana College professor and aviation enthusiast, led model-airplane building classes at Putnam Museum in Davenport. If students wanted to skate through Freshman Rhetoric — a requirement at Augustana College — they better hope they weren’t in Roald Tweet’s class. The longtime professor was known for giving out “legendary” assignments, former Rock Island Mayor Mar...

Jim Meenan, Thomas Geyer and Courtney Crowder If students wanted to skate through Freshman Rhetoric — a requirement at Augustana College — they better hope they weren’t in Roald Tweet’s class. The longtime professor was known for giving out “legendary” assignments, former Rock Island Mayor Mark Schwiebert told the Quad-City Times. An essay in which only three multi-syllabic words were used. A paper in which the letter “E” only appeared a select number of times. A poem about a single word. They were the sort of exercises that made one consider the craft of writing, the kind tha...