Cheyanne Mumphrey
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AP
At least 51 babies in 19 states have been treated for botulism after being exposed to organic ByHeart baby formula. The New-York based manufacturer issued a recall of all its products last month.
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McLean County prosecutors charged Anthony Seidel, 51, with the felony stemming from a crash that killed Brooke E. Powell, 37, of LeRoy. -
Democrat Montez Soliz of Rockford posted on social media that he has been removed from the ballot in the 17th Congressional District race following an objection to his petitions. That district includes parts of Bloomington-Normal and Greater Peoria. -
More than 700 Illinois schools are within a quarter-mile of crop fields, yet state law doesn’t require pesticide applicators to notify them before spraying. Advocates say a new notification proposal would give educators and park staff time to move children indoors and reduce exposure. -
Ornithologist and ecologist Mike Baltz is back with his regular monthly essay on the natural history of southern Illinois with the December edition of Nature Notebook. -
Law also allows residents to sue immigration agents for violating constitutional rights -
Illinois Farm Bureau delegates have rejected a new term for Illinois Farm Bureau [IFB] President Brian Duncan. At the IFB annual meeting in Chicago, nearly 57% of the delegates chose Philip Nelson of Seneca, a former IFB president and state agriculture director, as the organization’s 17th president. -
Approximately 4% of SIH Cancer Institute patients now participate in clinical trials. -
Nearly all the 25 co-ops in Illinois still have an ownership share in the Prairie State Coal Plant.
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