After weeks under stay-at-home orders, Americans should feel free to go outside and enjoy Memorial Day weekend as long as they practice social distancing and follow other guidelines, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert said. “We’ll be having people who want to get out there and get fresh air,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged on Friday it had mixed together results from viral and antibody coronavirus tests on its website. Eleven states also confirmed mixing viral and antibody test results. The CDC says it’s planning to separate those numbers in the coming weeks, but experts say the current method is
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Basketball Hall of Famer and Georgetown men’s basketball coach Patrick Ewing said Friday he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19. Ewing, 57, tweeted, “This virus is serious and should not be taken lightly. I want to encourage everyone to stay safe and take care of yourselves and your loved ones.” Ewing,
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Basketball Hall of Famer and Georgetown men’s basketball coach Patrick Ewing said Friday he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19. Ewing, 57, tweeted, “This virus is serious and should not be taken lightly. I want to encourage everyone to stay safe and take care of yourselves and your loved ones.” Ewing,
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Click here for updates on this story Near Grayling, MI (WNEM) — About 70 homes were evacuated on Thursday after a fire broke out near Grayling. The fire was estimated at about 105 acres and was reported about 5 p.m. along M-72 between Stephan Bridge Road and S. Horseshoe Trail, the Michigan Department of Natural
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Beijing’s plan to introduce a hugely controversial national security law in Hong Kong has sparked widespread fears over its potential impact on the city’s much cherished freedoms. Residents of the semi-autonomous city only need to look across the border at mainland China to get a glimpse of how “national security” — broadly and vaguely defined
Continue Reading Beijing’s plan to introduce a hugely controversial national security law in Hong Kong has sparked widespread fears over its potential impact on the city’s much cherished freedoms. Residents of the semi-autonomous city only need to look across the border at mainland China to get a glimpse of how “national security” — broadly and vaguely defined
Continue Reading Researchers have finally published the data that led the federal government to recommend the use of the antiviral drug remdesivir in very ill coronavirus patients, and they say the drug alone will not be enough to help patients. The data, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show the drug shortened the course of
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Dr. Stephen Hahn repeatedly pledged in a CNN interview Tuesday that science and data would be his “north star” while leading the Food and Drug Administration through the coronavirus pandemic. Then, a few hours later, President Donald Trump went on national television and politicized medical research and brazenly flouted FDA warnings. The FDA had already
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Heading into the Memorial Day weekend, a study predicts some Southern U.S. locations are poised for sharp upticks in new Covid-19 cases. Populous areas of Texas, parts of Alabama and Tennessee, and the Miami area of Florida, will see rapid surges in new Covid-19 cases, according to a new outbreak predictions model.
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The Trump administration is attempting to galvanize international anger at China’s repressive Hong Kong human rights law to rally allies behind the White House’s aggressive approach to Beijing. Administration officials view China’s aggression against Hong Kong as a clear hook to recruit countries that have otherwise been hesitant to alienate China, an epicenter of much
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Brazil has become the country with the second most coronavirus cases worldwide after the United States. The country’s health ministry reported 20,803 new cases on Friday, bringing the total to 330,890 confirmed cases. Brazil’s cases have surpassed the number in Russia, where health officials more recently reported 326,448 cases. More than 1.5 million cases have
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Waldport, OR (KPTV) — A man in Waldport was arrested Wednesday night after he called 911 more than 20 times in two hours, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office. At around 11 p.m., a deputy responded to a disturbance at a home on Southwest Southmayd Lane. The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Hartford, CT (WFSB) — Hartford police are investigating after a man was stabbed to death and a female was injured late Thursday night. Police said the double stabbing happened on Sherman Street, just a few blocks from the UConn Law campus. Hartford police identified the man who died
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EL PASO, Texas — After suffering a setback when state officials pulled the plug on plans for commencement ceremonies to be held inside UTEP’s Don Haskins Center, all El Paso Independent School District high schools will now hold graduations at three outdoor stadiums. The district approved plans Friday to celebrate the Class of 2020 on June
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Davenport, IA (WQAD) — The coronavirus pandemic is putting a historic number of people out of work. It’s also changing hiring practices for those organizations still hiring. At the Handicapped Development Center in Davenport, a nonprofit supporting people with disabilities, Chief Adminstration Officer Carol Foster is looking to
Continue Reading Prosecutors in Kentucky have filed a motion to drop attempted murder and assault charges against Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of slain EMT Breonna Taylor, according to Commonwealth’s Attorney Tom Wine. Police say Walker fired at them during a narcotics investigation in March when three officers forcibly entered Taylor’s apartment to serve a search warrant. Taylor
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For years, even as China has applied increasing pressure on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, the framework of “One Country, Two Systems”—the dividing line that keeps Hong Kong relatively autonomous from the authoritarian mainland—has been respected by the Chinese Communist Party in theory. The illusion of autonomy has now officially been shattered. Shock waves reverberated around
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The SEC will allow voluntary in-person athletic activities to resume on campuses beginning June 8, the college sports organization said Friday. Players in all sports can return, the 14-member SEC said, after earlier saying athletes in two major revenue sports, football and men’s and women’s basketball, could come back. It follows an NCAA announcement that
Continue Reading The SEC will allow voluntary in-person athletic activities to resume on campuses beginning June 8, the college sports organization said Friday. Players in all sports can return, the 14-member SEC said, after earlier saying athletes in two major revenue sports, football and men’s and women’s basketball, could come back. It follows an NCAA announcement that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Midland County, MI (WNEM) — Victims of the devastating dam failures and resulting floods in Midland County, MI have filed a class-action lawsuit, alleging that the owners and operators of the dams had a longstanding, conscious disregard for the grave threat posed to public safety by the Dams.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Midland County, MI (WNEM) — It was another day of cleanup restoration in Sanford as residents reel from all of the flood damage. TV5 made their way down the Sanford ball diamonds known as the heart of the village in Sanford. At what used to be Lincoln and
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas bars and bowling alleys reopened for the Memorial Day weekend as the state continues to gradually restart one of the world’s largest economies after it was ravaged by shutdowns caused by the coronavirus epidemic. The new standards don’t apply yet in El Paso and Amarillo, however, which have seen a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Coushatta, LA (KTBS) — A man serving a life sentence in the grisly 1963 murder of a Coushatta woman has died. Clyde Giddens died Sunday at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, confirmed the Louisiana Department of Corrections. Giddens was 80. Dennis Bamburg, whose mother, Earline Bamburg, was brutally
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Dr. Stephen Hahn repeatedly pledged in a CNN interview Tuesday that science and data would be his “north star” while leading the Food and Drug Administration through the coronavirus pandemic. Then, a few hours later, President Donald Trump went on national television and politicized medical research and brazenly flouted FDA warnings. The FDA had already
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials on Friday reported 160 new coronavirus cases and eight additional deaths across the state as a legal fight simmers over Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s authority to enforce public health orders aimed at keeping people home and limiting the spread of the virus. The latest data compiled by
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Asheville, NC (WLOS) — The Asheville community is coming together to support the owner of “Asheville’s Oldest Barber Shop” after a fall this month left him seriously injured. Tom Boza fell from a ladder while preparing to reopen Tom’s Barber Shop on Haywood Road. Boza has been in
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The Trump administration has cleared the United Arab Emirates of wrongdoing and approved a possible sale of thousands of armored vehicles to the Gulf state, US government officials told CNN, despite evidence that the country made unauthorized transfers of American military hardware to armed groups in Yemen. Yemen is embroiled in a civil war that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Asheville, NC (WLOS) — The Western North Carolina VA Health Care System has partnered with the Mayo Clinic for a special treatment program to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The program allows plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients to be donated, screened and used for treatment in current patients. Health
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