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The statistics are clear: Rural America is deeply impacted by the opioid crisis, especially farmers and farm workers. What’s not so easy is figuring out what to do about it, three national agricultural leaders said Sunday, though they all said the real onus is on local communities.
The organization Sistering CU trains volunteers from the community to offer a helping hand to new parents, with an emphasis on "mothering the mother."
Guillermo del Toro's The Shape Of Water took home the evening's biggest prize, best picture. The film follows a mute cleaning woman who falls in love with an amphibian creature in a Cold War-era government lab. The Shape of Water also won Academy Awards for directing (Guillermo Del Toro), music (Alexandre Desplat) and production design.
Actor and central Illinois native David Ogden Stiers has died at age 75, according to multiple news reports.
Eight Democrats and two Republicans are hoping to succeed current Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who is not running for re-election. The 21st recorded conversations with all ten of them ahead of the primary, which is on March 20.
