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Illinois State Police Cadet Class 145 participates in classroom training. Only one of the nine cadets in the class is a woman. – Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell

Illinois state police force looks to recruit more women

The night before Rebecca Hooks started at the Illinois State Police Academy in 2002, she spoke on the phone with her father and her brother — both of whom worked in law enforcement.
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Illinois awards $4B contract to private prison health care company accused of substandard care

Illinois has awarded a more than $4 billion prison medical care contract to the same company it’s used for three decades, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the firm and statewide complaints alleging substandard care.
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Pressure grows as Buttigieg says Boeing needs to cooperate with probes

With Boeing facing multiple government investigations, the company needs to make “a serious transformation” around its safety and manufacturing quality, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Monday.

Trial Notebook

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Court weighs informed consent on alternative treatment options

With no local precedent on an important aspect of informed consent in a malpractice case against an emergency medicine physician, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals looked at “the primary cases” from other jurisdictions on “the duty to inform the patient of alternative treatment options.”

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