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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials announced Friday that they will begin screening airline passengers arriving from central China for a new virus that has sickened dozens and killed two, prompting worries about a new international outbreak.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials say they will begin taking temperatures and asking about symptoms of passengers at three U.S.

Village President Robert Nunamaker touted new projects, including potential new apartment buildings, during the village's Business Roundtable on Thursday.

"The vision here is (to) improve the quality of life, and to focus on the river and the parks, which is kind of why we're here ... (and) work on some fiscal responsibility," Nunamaker said.

Nunamaker said he is "cautiously optimistic" that there's going to be apartment buildings in the old lumber yard by the Metra tracks.

Through the extraordinary and collaborative work of law enforcement, treatment providers, the McHenry County Substance Abuse Coalition, the Mental Health Board and Northwestern Medicine, the number of overdose-related deaths have been reduced precipitously to levels not seen since before the onset of the opioid epidemic.

To fully appreciate how remarkable this turnabout has been in terms of lives saved, one must compare our statistics with those of the other collar counties.             

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Five people were reported injured, two of them critically, after a pickup truck drove into a McHenry Starbucks on Thursday evening, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. The crash occurred before 5 p.m. at 4305 W. Elm St., McHenry police said. The pickup truck's hazard lights were blinking as it jutted out of the gaping maw left in the building.

SPRINGFIELD — Two years after Illinois’ Legislature approved new language for the U.S. Constitution codifying that rights cannot be denied due to gender, the Equal Rights Amendment gained enough state support to be ratified.

Its potential implementation is more complicated, though.

Virginia’s General Assembly on Wednesday backed the addition of protections for women in the country’s governing document.

SPRINGFIELD – Two years after Illinois’ Legislature approved new language for the U.S. Constitution codifying that rights cannot be denied due to gender, the Equal Rights Amendment gained enough state support to be ratified.

Its potential implementation is more complicated, however.

Virginia’s General Assembly on Wednesday backed the addition of protections for women in the country’s governing document.

An about $4.4 million addition to the fine arts wing of Huntley High School is on schedule to be finished before the start of the 2020-21 academic year, Huntley School District 158 Operations and Maintenance Director Doug Renkosik said.

The project – which is funded through existing state capital grant funding awarded to the district – will add a black box theater and additional space for fine arts programs in the fine arts wing of the high school.

During the District 158 Board’s Thursday meeting, Renkosik said roo

CHICAGO – Tucked in a windowless room of Chicago’s immigration court, one of the nation’s largest legal advocacy groups for immigrants runs a free help desk.

Their pace is dizzying. Most days, there’s a line outside the door, with some cases taking years to resolve. Attorneys have no printer and make copies by hand.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate opened the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump with quiet ceremony Thursday – senators standing at their desks to swear an oath of “impartial justice” as jurors, House prosecutors formally reciting the charges and Chief Justice John Roberts presiding.

The trial, only the third such undertaking in American history, is unfolding at the start of the election year, a time of deep political division in the nation.

In a bid to solidify his evangelical base, President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to protect prayer in public schools and took new steps to give religious organizations easier access to federal programs.

Speaking at an Oval Office event and joined by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Trump unveiled the federal government’s first updated guidance on school prayer since 2003.