State reports 1,151 new COVID-19 cases, 59 new deaths

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A San Diego physician and a 2001 graduate of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine was charged with mail fraud last week in connection with pushing "a magic bullet" cure for COVID-19.Dr. Jennings Ryan Staley, 44, the founder and operator of the Skinny Beach Med Spa and a Decatur native, had been the recent target of FBI agents after customer complaints.

Lawmakers Monday praised the increasing availability of testing for coronavirus as they toured a Walgreens drive-through site set up at what had been a closed store in the chain at 1155 N.

A California-based company filed a class-action lawsuit against Wells Fargo citing unfair actions against some small businesses seeking government-sponsored coronavirus relief under the Paycheck Protection Program. In March, the Treasury Department announced the $349 billion forgivable loan plan for small businesses that helps them pay employees during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

College students threatened to revolt if universities put another semester of classes online to avoid spreading the coronavirus - but that's increasingly what campus leaders are considering doing.

A second shipment of personal protective equipment (PPE) that landed in Chicago from China Monday may bode well for Sangamon County.

The Internal Revenue Service this week created about as much digital furor as the horn-honking protests in Lansing over the coronavirus-related shutdowns and restrictions across the economy. People want their stimulus checks as much, likely even more, than some angry protesters want their landscaping done and the resumption of their lives. "People are borderline panicking because this stimulus is a matter of life and death for many, I am out of food,"

Twelve years ago, chef extraordinaire Naomi Pomeroy opened Beast, a cozy, 26-seat fine-dining restaurant in Portland, Oregon, where she decides the menu for six-course dinners that rotate regularly.

The nation's leaders wrangled over bailouts Monday while governors chipped away at lockdowns and hundreds of people in Pennsylvania gathered to protest the stay-at-home restrictions.