Jim Reed, a lieutenant at the West Lafayette Fire Department, sits outside his West Point home, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. Redd, who contracted COVID-19 in late Nov. 2020, was rushed to IU Health Hospital due to complications. He remained in the hospital for four weeks, but is now back home.
Abigail Parsons, a welder at John Deere Davenport Works, stands for a photo, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, at John Deere Davenport Works in Davenport.
This week's Illinois Pacesetter is Mercer County senior boys’ basketball standout Owen Relander, who helped the Golden Eagles win their first LTC Tournament title since 2010. Averaging 16.7 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, the 6-foot-3 guard/forward also has Mercer County (20-7) tied for the regular-season Lincoln Trail lead with Stark County.
Mark Schaecher sits for a portrait dressed as Santa Claus, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, in Davenport.
The scars on Richard Bailey Jr.'s neck are visible as he looks out of the window of his home, Wednesday, July 22, 2020 in Lafayette, Ind. On May 9, 2020, a Lafayette Police Department police dog mauled Richard Bailey Jr.’s neck for 30 seconds, puncturing his trachea, cutting his carotid artery, damaging the tissue in his neck, injuring his shoulder and breaking his finger while police handcuffed him. The scars on Richard Bailey Jr.'s neck are visible as he looks out of the window of his home, Wednesday, July 22, 2020 in Lafayette, Ind. On May 9, 2020, a Lafayette Police Department police dog mauled Richard Bailey Jr.’s neck for 30 seconds, puncturing his trachea, cutting his carotid artery, damaging the tissue in his neck, injuring his shoulder and breaking his finger while police handcuffed him.
Dr. Ed Coyne, a cardiologist and president of cardiovascular medicine at the Genesis Heart Institute in Davenport, Iowa, sits for a portrait, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.
JJ and Maggy Nance stand for a photo in their home, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022 in Lafayette, Ind. The Nance’s began attending Immanuel Reformed Presbyterian Church in fall 2019 before leaving the church in 2020 after an investigation by Presbyterian officials would reveal eight children from six families in the church had been harassed or abused by a teen, related to the head pastor, who last year was found delinquent - the juvenile equivalent of guilty - on what would be seven county of child molesting. The Nance’s were not related to any of the victims.
Joe Imhoff of Hilford, a Canadian soldier with the Union, poses for a photo during the Jackson Civil War Muster, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018, at Ella Sharp Park in Jackson, Mich.
“Maybe this is the way the world will work from now on, I wonder whether we should even keep going” said John von Erdmannsdorff, owner of Von's Shops, Thursday, April 16, 2020 in West Lafayette, Ind. Von Erdmannsdorff has onwned Von's Books for 53 years, and has seen West Lafayette and Purdue University change dramatically over the years. After Indiana announced the stay-at-home order, von Erdmannsdorff closed the shop but is still offering curbside pickup or to mail items to customers.
Russell Hillberry, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University, stands near a wind farm in Southeastern White County, Ind., Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. Hillberry, who co-authored a Purdue study on the wind industry in Indiana, said land-based wind farms provide stable high-paying jobs. White County has the ability to generate 702 megawatts of wind energy with another 203 megawatts under construction. White County, and neighbor, Benton County, are part of Indiana’s wind belt helping the state rank twelfth in the nation in wind power production.
This week's Iowa Pacesetter will be Pleasant Valley golfer Maura Peters.
A protester holds a “For Sale Justice” sign outside the Lafayette Municipal building, Tuesday, June 16, 2020, in Lafayette, Ind.
“I don’t want to keep our tank,” City Council President Peter Bunder, D-2nd District, says of the West Lafayette Police Department's mine resistant ambush protected vehicle, known as an MRAP, Thursday, July 2, 2020. The MRAP is a surplus U.S. military vehicle acquired in 2014 by the department. “Every time we put it on display, it looks like somebody is going to be the enemy," Bunder said.
This week's Iowa Pacesetter is Central DeWitt running back Ben Pace. Pace rushed for over 100 yards in each of the first two games. He had 253 rushing yards and four touchdowns in last week's win over Camanche.
Curtis Skoog pauses while recalling the day his family found a woman's body in 1976 in a corn field on E 200 S, Thursday, July 11, 2019 in Pine Township. The woman, identified only as Jane Doe, was found shot in the head and stuffed in a cardboard box. Now, 43 years later, her body was exhumed, in hope she can finally be identified.
Khal Stephen, Seeger High School Baseball team