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In only 13 days, the Bulls had more active players enter the COVID-19 protocol than any other team in the league: Coby White (Dec. 1), Javonte Green (Dec. 3), DeRozan (Dec. 5), Matt Thomas (Tuesday), Derrick Jones Jr. (Thursday), Ayo Dosunmu and Stanley Johnson (Saturday), LaVine and Tony Brown Jr. (Sunday) and Alize Johnson (Monday). Nikola Vučević also previously spent 11 days in isolation after testing positive Nov. 11.
Mary Felton, left, is congratulated by former emergency manager Peggy Hinckley after she was named to the Gary School Board in 2018. Felton was found dead of a gunshot wound in her car in Gary last week. A man has been charged with murder in her death. (Carole Carlson / Post-Tribune)
The McHenry County sheriff’s office and Spring Grove police responded to a residence in the 500 block of Sunrise Drive in an unincorporated part of McHenry at 9:40 p.m. Saturday for a report of a domestic battery, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. There authorities found a 25-year-old woman who said she had been beaten and stabbed by her boyfriend, Alexander Campos, also 25.
Kellie Bartoli, a spokeswoman for Chicago police, said the police report did not specify what type of blunt object the two men were armed with. Asked whether Tellez knew his attackers or if there was some argument or interaction before the men began hitting him in the head, Bartoli said “Detectives are still investigating.”
“We had this hope and sense that the vaccine was going to prevent everything,” Cole said. “Apparently, it’s just not happening. That might have to do with the transmissibility of variants, including delta and omicron, but in general, the vaccine is not preventing reinfection.”
Cook County registered a record number of opioid-related deaths in 2020, according to the medical examiner, which found many cases originated from Chicago’s West Side. Although so far this year the city’s opioid deaths have decreased compared with this point in time in 2020, the share that stems from fentanyl use continues climbing. About 88% of all fatal opioid overdoses in Chicago this year are related to fentanyl, according to the medical examiner, compared with 83% in all of 2020 and 74% in 2019.
Acting on a bad tip, police raided Young’s home in February 2019, restraining her while she was getting ready for bed and forcing her to stand handcuffed and naked as police searched her residence. The errant raid became national news in December 2020 after Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration sought an extraordinary order to prevent CBS-2 from airing video footage from the incident.
The Amazon facility, among three in Edwardsville, is a 1.1 million square foot “delivery station” that employs about 190 workers across several shifts, according to Amazon. The facility, which opened in July 2020, prepares orders for “last-mile delivery” to customers. Edwardsville is about 25 miles northeast of St. Louis.
Skinner, 25, of Bellwood, who faces aggravated battery and official misconduct charges for the Friday incident at the Hillside high school, then allegedly threw a deflated dodge ball at the student, as well as a bottle of lotion and a water bottle, Assistant State’s Attorney Krista Peterson told the court.
“We’ve got a lot of guys sitting home with no symptoms right now,” Donovan said. “That’s obviously a good thing, too, because I think when guys have gone through a little difficulty of getting really, really sick, it’s really made it a lot harder for them coming back. So we do have some guys that have felt under the weather, we have some guys that have very, very mild symptoms and some guys who just don’t have any.”