Monthly Archives: August, 2020

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Updated at 1:50 a.m. ET A Black man was in serious condition after being shot several times by a police officer responding to a domestic situation in Kenosha, Wisc. The shooting, caught on video, quickly sparked outrage. City police said the person was in serious condition and being treated at a hospital. Local media identified…

Crowds gathered late Sunday in Kenosha, Wisc., after a Black man was shot in the back multiple times in a police-involved shooting and is in serious condition at a nearby hospital. Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, issued a statement late Sunday and said Jacob Blake was shot in broad daylight. He said his office does not have…

August 23, 2020 | 11:36pm | Updated August 24, 2020 | 1:13am A video posted online Sunday shows police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin shooting a black man as he gets into a car. The footage circulating on social media shows two cops with weapons drawn trailing a man on Sunday afternoon as he walks to…

Illinois Public Health officials on Sunday reported 1,893 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 and six additional deaths. That brings the state’s total to 220,178 cases and 7,880 fatalities. There were 54,351 tests reported, a day after the state set another testing record with 56,766 tests. If Illinois doesn’t bring its steadily rising coronavirus numbers down…