A Hannibal tradition had hundreds on Main Street cheering kids on for a fence-painting contest. The pee-wee and girls fence painting was put on by the Hannibal Jaycees.
A 4th of July tradition is underway in Hannibal and it has local businesses excited. National Tom Sawyer Days had thousands of visitors coming into Hannibal on Saturday.
Testing by the State Hygienic Lab in Coralville says the patient, who is from the north-central part of Iowa, was likely infected with monkeypox during international travel.
The Illinois Department of Public Health provided the pandemic health navigator program with $10 million Thursday to help the community health workers stay in their roles in 27 counties.
A battle that started in 2020 with a downstate lawmaker challenging COVID-19 executive orders has become a fight for the governor’s office in November.