Jefferson County on Tuesday joined a growing number of Colorado municipalities to enact a mask requirement for anyone in public settings to combat the spread of COVID-19. Under the order, which goes into effect 5 p.m. Tuesday and expires 6 a.m. July 22 if not extended, residents and visitors who are outside their homes “must…
Jefferson Parish officials held a press conference on Monday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on the parish. Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng said the coroner Gerald “Gerry” Cvitanovich is worried deaths may spike from COVID-19 in the parish over the next two weeks. This comes after the July Fourth holiday weekend…
Jefferson County, the most populous county in Alabama and the home of Birmingham, added 1,200 coronavirus cases so far in July, or 200 cases per day, by far the most among any Alabama county.The Alabama Department of Public Health confirmed 189 new virus cases in the county on Monday as coronavirus hospitalizations in Birmingham and…
People without masks on dine outside Los Amigos Mexican Restaurant in Birmingham's Lakeview neighborhood Friday afternoon while a server in a mask tends to customers. (Connor Sheets | [email protected])More than 27.5 percent of COVID-19 cases in Jefferson County have been confirmed in the past seven days, according to the latest data from the Alabama Department…
Looks like somebody was drinking on the job.Workers in Kentucky made a surprising discovery while removing a statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis from the state capitol on Saturday — a bottle of bourbon and an 84-year-old newspaper. Workers prepare to remove the Jefferson Davis statue from the Kentucky state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., on…
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…