ASHEVILLE - As of noon June 12, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services tallied 41,249 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 statewide. That's an increase of 1,768 from the previous day. That's the highest daily case jump overall, topping the previous high June 6 by almost 400 cases.NCDHHS counts a total of 1,092 deaths associated…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…