It was early spring, about the time the novel coronavirus was spreading like wildfire in the US Northeast. Fear was keeping some ill people at home, unwilling to risk a visit to a doctor, especially if the health problem appeared to be mild. That’s what happened to a patient of obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Maria Sophocles, who
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Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, AL (WALA) — A Corvette running from Alabama State Troopers crashed into a Honda Accord at Michigan Avenue and Duval Street Thursday morning. According to one witness, the woman driving the Accord was ejected out of the back window and became trapped underneath her own car. “When
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(CNN) — Los piratas informáticos están apuntando a actores clave en la cadena de suministro de la vacuna contra el coronavirus a medida que se pone en marcha su distribución. Estas nuevas advertencias las dieron el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos y la compañía IBM, que descubrieron la actividad maliciosa. Desde septiembre, los
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, CT (Hartford Business Journal) — As COVID-19 positivity rates creep up in communities across the state, nursing homes – whose fatalities represent 63% of the state’s overall coronavirus deaths – are under pressure again to test staff more frequently. In counties with positivity rates of 10% or
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An Indian schoolteacher has been awarded the 2020 Global Teacher Prize — and has vowed to give half of the $1 million prize money to the runners-up. The award, which is run by the Varkey Foundation in partnership with UNESCO, celebrates “exceptional” teachers who have made an outstanding contribution to their profession. Ranjitsinh Disale, a
Continue Reading A suspect is dead after a confrontation in the Bronx Friday morning in which two US marshals were shot and wounded, according to law enforcement officials. The marshals are in “OK condition,” with injuries not considered life threatening, the officials said. A detective with the New York Police Department, which was assisting the US marshals
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What a difference a week makes. On Monday, it looked like nothing was going to happen on stimulus. Now, it’s possible a deal is brokered in a matter of days. It’s crunch time. If a bipartisan group of lawmakers is actually going to unlock a stimulus agreement and present it in writing by Monday, there
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MISSOULA, MT (KPAX/KAJ) — We usually think of Neptune Aviation responding to the emergencies of a devastating wildfire. But right now, the Missoula-based company is helping with a different emergency, helping to make sure the hungry are being fed in the state’s far-flung corners, teaming with local businesses
Continue Reading Dr. Taylor Nichols has faced hate in the emergency room before. He’s treated racist patients, and each time the Jewish physician has dipped into his well of compassion to do his job. Until seeing a possible Covid-19 patient challenged the way he does his job. The patient’s skin was covered in Nazi tattoos, including a
Continue Reading The Newhart family moved to their Chicago suburb for the public schools. But when William Hatch Elementary closed its doors at the beginning of the pandemic, it contributed to a downward spiral for the family. “To put it plainly, those were probably some of the more difficult months that we had as a family, ever,”
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Stocks soared to new all-time highs Friday — even though the government reported a lower-than-expected increase in jobs in November. Investors appear to be betting that the weaker jobs gains will put more pressure on the outgoing Trump administration and Congress to approve more stimulus before Joe Biden is inaugurated next month. The Dow was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CERRITOS, CA (KABC) — They’re called “Caring Cards” and it’s a way to say thank you during these trying times. It’s a simple, but personal way to say thanks to health care workers at the forefront of the coronavirus crisis. “Caring Cards” are handmade, each with a message
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The island kingdom of Bahrain says it has become the second nation in the world to grant emergency-use authorization for the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech. The state-run Bahrain News Agency made the announcement on Friday night. It said it followed “thorough analysis and
Continue Reading Political questions from Democrats and a new Republican litmus test have suddenly become complicating factors in one of President-elect Joe Biden’s most critical choices: picking a new Attorney General to lead the Justice Department out of its highly politicized era. This creates competing realities for Biden. He must get an attorney general confirmed by a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NORTH COLLEGE HILL, OH (WLWT) — It’s a Christmas display that would make Clark Griswold blush. Along Galbraith Road in North College Hill, homeowner Bill Zapf takes Christmas seriously. His home shines the brightest of all the homes in the neighborhood — and maybe even in the city
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOUISVILLE, Ky (WLKY) — Here’s one that’ll warm your heart. A group of firefighters from the Shelbyville Fire Department recently went out to make the holidays a little brighter for a 7-year-old boy with a severe form of muscular dystrophy. DJ lives with his grandmother, who is raising
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The founder of an all-Black armed activist group is facing a federal charge after the FBI alleges he aimed a rifle at federally deputized task force officers during a September rally in Louisville, Kentucky. FBI agents arrested John Fitzgerald Johnson, the founder of the Not F**king Around Coalition who is also known as Grand Master
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In a matter of hours on election night, recreational cannabis measures got the go-ahead in four more states: Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota. That doesn’t mean that people in those locations can legally buy weed for non-medical use just yet. Although the moves at the ballot box further bolster the $19 billion US
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KOAT) — After weeks of fighting, a Las Cruces New Mexico teacher has lost her battle with COVID-19. Sylvia Garcia died on Nov. 29. The 60-year-old teacher taught within the Las Cruces Public Schools District for many years. Her son, Dominic Garcia said she was a
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Meredith Grey’s death beach party got a new guest in this week’s episode of “Grey’s Anatomy.” In the new episode, the doctor (played by Ellen Pompeo) remained in critical condition as she fought the coronavirus and was visited in her Covid-19 dream by the late George O’Malley (T. R. Knight). Meredith’s dead husband, Derek Shepherd
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A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. In the final minute of Jake Tapper’s sit-down with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Thursday, Harris put it all in perspective: “There couldn’t be a more extreme exercise in stark contrast between the current
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Mo (KMBC) — Mesner Puppets has been making memories for Kansas City kids and families for two decades. Now it’s giving people a chance to bid on some of their most popular puppets at an online auction. The tortoise and the hare are kind of a
Continue Reading President Donald Trump’s political operation has raised more than $207 million since Election Day, as the President inundates his supporters with fundraising appeals and refuses to concede his White House loss, according to figures released Thursday night by his campaign. The vast majority appeared to flow to Trump’s campaign coffers, the Republican National Committee and
Continue Reading The consequences of one bad act pile up in “Your Honor,” a solid but unspectacular miniseries produced by and starring Bryan Cranston. The casting is generally superior to the material, which sets up the moral dilemma of just how many rules one judge will bend and break to protect his son. Said kid (Hunter Doohan)
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story COLOMA, MI (WBND) — The pandemic has caused many Americans to feel economic pressure through lost jobs, struggle in paying rent and even the fight to get food on plates. But one population hit hard is children. Thousands of adults and kids are food insecure in Michiana and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will arrive in St. Louis this weekend to take a closer look at how COVID-19 is spreading among students. The organization is partnering with Washington University and Saint Louis University to study how the coronavirus
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MIAMI COUNTY, IN (WBND) — A Benton Harbor woman was arrested for allegedly driving 116 mph with a one-year-old child in asleep in the front seat without a car seat or seat belt, according to Indiana State Police. An off-duty trooper was traveling on US 31 near CR
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has expressed optimism that the ongoing boycott of Qatar by four Arab nations may be nearing an end. Prince Faisal bin Farhan made the comment to the Italy’s annual Mediterranean Dialogues on Friday. He said: “We hope this progress can lead to a final agreement
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Across the US, preparations are underway to quickly distribute Covid-19 vaccines once authorized, but experts say before that relief occurs, the coming months will be difficult. What comes next is likely the country’s “worst-case scenario in terms of overwhelmed hospitals, in terms of the death count,” said emergency medicine physician Dr. Leana Wen. “There’s just
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Since March many people have changed jobs and found new ways to keep their head above water. For one Wilson County couple, they discovered a hidden talent. In a normal year, Christin and Zito would be out traveling the country doing what they love.
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