Residents urged to use bug spray to avoid getting bitten AP Photo/Andre Penner File photo: Mosquito on skin SOURCE: AP Photo/Andre Penner SIGN UP FOR BREAKING NEWS Get local stories sent straight to your inbox as news breaks. Privacy Notice West Nile virus found in mosquitoes in Massachusetts for first time in 2020 Residents urged…
Remains found in Texas last week have been confirmed to be those of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen, who is thought to have been killed by a soldier who later died by suicide, the military said Monday."I lack the words to make sense of this tragic loss," Fort Hood's deputy commanding general, Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt,…
Heather Osbourne and Kelsey Bradshaw, Austin American-Statesman Published 8:27 a.m. ET July 1, 2020 | Updated 9:56 a.m. ET July 1, 2020CLOSEAUSTIN, Texas — Investigators on Tuesday said they discovered partial human remains while searching for missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen near a river in Bell County, Texas. The announcement came a few hours after…
Pigs in their pen at a farm on the outskirts of Chengdu in China's south west Sichuan province, on August 2, 2005.Peter Parks | AFP | Getty ImagesScientists have identified a new strain of flu carried by pigs in China that they say has the potential to become a pandemic.The new strain is descended from…
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…