Despite a recent spike in COVID-19 cases, San Mateo County has received the state’s approval to resume business for indoor dining, gyms, movie theaters and hair salons. With the approval, San Mateo joins Napa, Sonoma, Solano, and Santa Cruz and as the only counties in the Bay Area to be open for indoor dining. Restaurants…
With pressure heating up from residents, San Mateo County officials began reporting COVID-19 cases by ZIP code Thursday to provide a more granular picture of how the disease has spread throughout the community. Public health officials and politicians had previously been reluctant to show this level of data, fearing it would lead residents to underestimate…
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…