Health officials are warning residents of a “significant increase” of overdoses and overdose deaths, which remain at higher than normal levels in McHenry County. The McHenry County Substance Abuse Coalition (SAC) on March 13 issued an alert that local law enforcement was reporting overdoses that required high quantities of the life-saving opioid reversal medication naloxone. […]
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Attorney general warns residents to be on lookout for flood-damaged vehicles being sold in Illinois
Attorney General Kwame Raoul is warning Illinois residents to be on the lookout for flood-damaged vehicles that could soon be hitting the used car market following Hurricane Ian. Raoul issued the warning on Tuesday and said preliminary industry estimates indicate that Hurricane Ian has flooded thousands of vehicles in the Southeastern United States, especially in […]
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FBI warns of tech support scam targeting older residents in Chicagoland area
The FBI has issued a warning to residents in the Chicagoland area about an increase in scams where criminals are posing as tech support and targeting elderly people. The FBI said in a statement this month that technical support fraud involves a criminal posing as technical support to defraud unwitting people. Criminals may offer support […]
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FBI warns Illinois parents of increase in ‘sextortion’ schemes targeting young boys
The FBI is warning parents and caregivers in Illinois about an uptick in incidents where adults posing as girls are coercing boys on social media and extorting money from them. The FBI says that “sextortion” begins when an adult contacts a minor over any online platform used to meet and communicate, such as a game, […]
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Group warns about multiple suspected fentanyl overdoses recently in McHenry County
A local coalition issued a warning about multiple recent overdoses in McHenry County where the user did not realize the substance they took was laced with what authorities believe was fentanyl. The McHenry County Substance Abuse Coalition issued an alert Friday morning after being notified about multiple uses of naloxone to reverse overdoses in the […]