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Sandy Lopez, left, coordinator for undocumented student support at Northern Illinois University, works with NIU students Ariana Nava, standing right, and Alejandra Hernandez, peer academic coaches who are providing workshops on time management and how to find scholarships, at the Office of Undocumented Student Support at NIU in DeKalb on June 24, 2021. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
The Lake County Health Department urges residents to follow the “4 Ds of Defense” to protect themselves from West Nile virus: Drain standing water from around their homes; defend themselves by using insect repellent; dress in long sleeves, pants and closed toed shoes when outdoors; and protect themselves throughout the day, making sure to wear insect repellent at dawn and dusk. Repellent should contain DEET, picaridin, oil of lemon, eucalyptus, 2-undecanone, or IR3535 and be reapplied according to label instructions.
Dear Upset: Over the course of most marriages, partners don’t reflexively share all of their outside communications with one another, but you and your husband are at an inflection point, and a marriage counselor might suggest that your husband share his texts with you as a way to establish – or re-establish – trust. Oftentimes, this sort of transparency is an important step in moving forward.
EUGENE, ORE. — The U.S. Olympic track and field trials came to a halt Sunday afternoon with temperatures reaching 108 degrees. One athlete, heptathlete Taliyah Brooks, was carted off the field in a wheelchair and eventually had to withdraw from the competition.
Biles will arrive in Tokyo as the face of her sport, the U.S. delegation and perhaps the Olympic movement. She has become more than just a gymnastics star since her coronation in Rio in 2016. Her consistent excellence — her last second-place finish in a meet came more than nine years ago — combined with her charisma and possibility-pushing routines have thrust her into the company of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt, athletes whose dominance on the world stage made them Olympic icons.
The victims were two 21-year-old men, a 19-year-old man, a 15-year-old boy and an additional man, who were all stabilized at area hospitals, police said. The sixth victim, who police said was female but not yet identified, was in critical condition, according to police.
“He wasn’t sharp,” manager David Ross said. “I just felt like his rhythm in general, syncing up his mechanics, just leading to sporadic command. His slider really didn’t look like it had a lot of shape to it either. He was battling himself out there, trying to let him figure it out a little bit.”
“It was kind of a reset or a restart and found some rhythm and found, I guess, the tempo that I needed to have for me to be better,” Mills told the Tribune. “I was just a little bit slow, especially in the leg lift, so I got little rotation. I kind of went back and started from the beginning (during rehab starts).”
Joseph Coles and Karen Phillips attend a news conference June 27, 2021, to talk about their missing daughter Kierra Coles outside the Daley Center in Chicago. Coles was three months pregnant with her first child when she went missing on Oct. 2, 2018, near her apartment at 81st Street and Vernon Avenue in the Chatham neighborhood. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
“What we do is we go around the whole glove, feeling for anything that would be sticky or something,” he said. “Yes, it was very noticeable, and then the rest of the crew inspected to make sure we were all in agreement. All four agreed that it was a sticky substance, and that’s why he was ejected.”