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Free Meals For Students
Free meals for students will continue to be available to all children throughout the entire 2020-2021 school year. That’s after the U.S. The Department of Agriculture announced the program extension Friday. No cost breakfasts and lunches will be available to all children at over...
Egyptian Health Department Reports 37 New COVID-19 Cases Friday – Sunday
Egyptian Health Department was notified over the weekend, Friday - Sunday, of thirty-seven Southeastern Illinois residents who have tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19). The individuals include: Saline Countya female, under the age of 10, at home and in isolation
a male, under the...
26 Illinois Counties at Warning Level for Coronavirus Disease
Number of counties decreases slightly from 28 last week
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported 26 counties in Illinois are considered to be at a warning level for novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). A county enters a warning level when...
ST. LOUIS MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO ENTICEMENT, SEX WITH ILLINOIS MINOR
East St. Louis, Ill. – Joseph L. Hughes, a/k/a “Joe King,” 28, of St. Louis, Missouri, has
pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor and two counts of traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a 14 year-old girl in St. Clair County, Illinois....
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS MAN CHARGED WITH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY POSSESSION
Michael M. Rapa, 67, of Fairview Heights, Illinois, was arraigned Friday in federal court on a three-count indictment charging him with possessing prepubescent child pornography(two counts) and possessing child pornography. According to the indictment, on Nov. 2 and Nov. 30, 2017, Rapa knowingly possessed...
Egyptian Health Department Reports Six New Cases of COVID-19 Saturday
Egyptian Health...
First Human West Nile Virus Death in Illinois for 2020
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has confirmed the first human West Nile virus-related death in Illinois for 2020. A Chicago resident who became ill in mid-September and tested positive for West Nile virus has died.“Although we are already into fall, West...
