Mercury instruments collected in cleanup

CHAMPAIGN – One of Von Young's priorities Thursday: collect all mercury-containing instruments at Parkland College to turn over to hazmat crews already working there.

Young, Parkland's chief of police, was one of the first people notified, at about noon Wednesday, about a mercury spill from an old, broken blood pressure cuff in a health professions classroom, and he said officials Thursday made sure it won't happen again.

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