Illini win second directly, rout turnover-plagued Cornhuskers

LINCOLN, Neb. — For maximum groups that come into Memorial Stadium, beating Nebraska doesn’t imply up to it used to bearing in mind the Cornhuskers’ fall from the higher echelon of school soccer the final twenty years. You couldn’t inform that to Illinois trainer Lovie Smith after his crew left Lincoln with a 41-23 win Saturday. “You can imagine what our locker room was like,” Smith stated. “I’m told we haven’t won in Lincoln since 1924 when Red Grange played. Whenever something like that happens, it’s a big deal.” Brandon Peters threw for one landing and ran for some other in his first sport in just about a month, Illinois had two rushers cross over 100 yards, and the Illini

Rev. Jesse Jackson pens 2d letter to Trump urging

The Rev. Jesse Jackson joined different black pastors and leaders as a part of a countrywide coalition Saturday to pen an open letter to President Donald Trump, urging him to check all 2.2 million folks for COVID-19 which are incarcerated within the nation all the way through the pandemic, and asking the president to imagine liberating folks arrested on nonviolent offenses as they wait for trial. “In prison, there are too many people in proximity to each other who do not have the option of social distancing and there are literally millions of persons incarcerated who were arrested, but not convicted, who are languishing in prison awaiting trial,” Jackson wrote within the letter. The coalition, led through

Coronavirus in Chicago: second Chicago Fire Department member

A 2nd member of the Chicago Fire Department has examined sure for coronavirus, hearth officers introduced Wednesday. The CFD was once alerted to the case by way of a “local health care facility,” and the member is being handled at a sanatorium, in keeping with CFD spokesman Larry Langford. Those in shut touch had been recommended to self-quarantine as a precaution. Langford showed that the member is on “the EMS side of things,” however declined to divulge their rank. However, he additionally mentioned that officers imagine the individual didn't select up the virus whilst at the activity. “We think the greater chance is that it is not a patient who transmitted the virus, based on how [the member] interacts

Authorities announce 2nd coronavirus dying in US

SEATTLE — Health officers in Washington state stated Sunday night time {that a} second particular person had died from the coronavirus — a person in his 70s from a nursing facility close to Seattle the place dozens of individuals have been sick and had been examined for the virus. Researchers stated earlier the virus might have been circulating for weeks undetected in Washington state. In an announcement, Public Health—Seattle & King County stated the person died Saturday. On Friday, well being officers stated a person in his 50s died of coronavirus. Both had underlying well being situations, and each have been being handled at a hospital in Kirkland, Washington, east of Seattle. Washington state now has