Pat Frazier
A global technology outage has grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air on Friday in a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world. The Associated Press reported Friday morning that CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm, said that the issue believed to be behind the outage was not a security…
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COATSBURG, Ill. — Firefighters from central and eastern Adams County didn’t get much rest Wednesday morning. Bill Phillips, chief of the all-volunteer Central Adams Fire Protection District, said he got home at about 3 a.m. Wednesday after battling a fire at a two-story Golden home on Tuesday night. “We left the scene at around 1…
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QUINCY — The Adams County Sheriff’s Department and the Quincy Police Department are asking people to be aware of someone trying to pass themselves off as a member of law enforcement and demanding money. Deputy Sheriff Pat Frazier said Monday people representing themselves as a law enforcement officer are seeking bond money for outstanding arrest…
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QUINCY — A mass exodus of prisoners from the Adams County Jail did not happen Monday morning when Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to eliminate the cash bail system. Judges no longer can hold people in jail pretrial unless he charges them with specific, serious felonies and they pose a safety or…
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BOWLING GREEN, Mo. — A Quincy man was shot by law enforcement officers early Tuesday morning and now is hospitalized after a car chase ended near Bowling Green, Mo. Pike County Sheriff Steve Korte said his department was contacted at 2 a.m. Tuesday by the Quincy Police Department. “They were looking for this guy on…
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UPDATE: Adams County Coroner Scott Graham issued a press release at 4:45 p.m. Saturday identifying the man who was killed as Flint C. Reed of Camp Point. CAMP POINT, Ill. — An unidentified man died at about noon Friday in Camp Point when he was struck by an Amtrak train traveling from Chicago to Quincy.…
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