ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (February 5, 2020) — The Quad Cities Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance) Committee announces a call for entries for the "Ida Kramer Children and the Holocaust Essay Contest" and the "Meyer and Frances Shnurman Holocaust Visual Arts Contest" which are open to all Quad City Area students in grades 7-12. The deadline for entries is March 1, 2020.

Both contests offer cash prizes as follows:

SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS (February 3, 2020) — Mental and behavioral health needs are soaring in Illinois, and health-care providers struggle to keep up. One prominent statewide association continues to bring on the expertise and vision needed to transform how the problem is addressed.  

PRESS RELEASE (Februrary 3, 2020) — People in Iowa are being warned of a new telephone scam which is currently sweeping the United Kingdom and could be set to hit the United States.

CPR Call Blocker, makers of the best-selling call blocking device in the US and the UK, is urging the public in Iowa to beware if they receive a call from an apparent police officer telling you that your bank card has been cloned or that money has been taken from your account.

WASHINGTON DC (January 30, 2020) — Denouncing government efforts to silence dissent and punish civil disobedience, The Rutherford Institute has asked the US Supreme Court to strike down as unconstitutionally overbroad a federal statute making it a crime to “encourage” undocumented aliens to remain in the country.