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Darren Deon Vann is seen in an undated picture released by the Hammond Police Department in Hammond, Indiana October 20, 2014. Vann is charged with a string of murders that may span decades.

REUTERS/Hammond Police Department           (Click on picture for larger image) 

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• Illinois grain prices in country elevators

• Column
  Fall and Winter Rose Care  
  By John Fulton

• Logan County 4-H and Extension to host Fall Hunting discipline October 25th 
  Free curtain raising event open to all youth

• FSA Bulletin  
  USDA expands access to credit to help more beginning and family farmers regarding the Microloan program loan limits

• FSA News Bulletin 
  Enrollment for New Dairy Farm Risk Management Program to Begin Sept. 2

• FSA Bulletin  
  USDA Farm Service Agency announces key dates for new 2014 Farm Bill Safety Net programs

• FSA offers farm bill website

• U of I Policy Matters Website

Local

• Illinois Department of Public Health provides update on state’s preparedness efforts for Ebola
  Governor Quinn Directs agency to assemble Ebola Preparedness Task Force, announces informational hotline and website   

• IDPH activates 24-hour Ebola Hotline
  800-889-3931   

• Bringing Outdoor Trails to Logan County 
  Why are trails important to Logan County?
  Public Meeting Scheduled for October 28

• Logan County Department of Public Health food inspection scores

• Births at ALMH

National, International

Ebola crisis turns a corner as U.S. issues new treatment protocols

A health care worker receives protocol on the proper removal of personal protection equipment from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) instructors in preparation for the response to the current Ebola outbreak, during a CDC safety training course in Anniston, Alabama, October 6, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell

• Home care kits highlight gaps in West Africa's Ebola response

• Cell transplant helps paralyzed man walk with frame

• Analysts see U.S. approval of Novo Nordisk's obesity drug by year-end

• Parkinson’s drugs linked to impulse control disorders

Study shows exit screening vital to halting global Ebola spread

Paris airport doctor Philippe Bargain (R) demonstrates on a plain cloth policeman how airport medical staff will check the body temperature of a passenger arriving from Ebola infected zones during a press visit at the Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Roissy, near Paris October 17, 2014. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

• Third Ebola patient released from Atlanta's Emory University Hospital

• Actavis, Sanofi among bidders for Omega Pharma: Bloomberg

• Nigeria declared Ebola-free, holds lessons for others