Mt. Bachelor Memory Care outbreak now at 31 cases, including 9 staff PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- COVID-19 has claimed five more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 254, along with 307 new cases, 19 of them in Central Oregon, the Oregon Health Authority reported Friday. Oregon Health Authority reported 307 new confirmed…
Los Angeles County public health officials reported more than 4,500 new coronavirus cases Thursday, shattering the record for the highest single-day increase in new infections.There were a total of 4,506 new cases, marking the second time this week the county broke the grim record, having notched 4,200 cases of the virus on Tuesday.“Each case represents…
Montana state health officials reported 137 new COVID-19 cases statewide and added two more deaths, according to the Montana Response COVID-19 tracking map.Yellowstone County added the most new cases with 23, followed closely by Missoula County with 21 and Lake County with 19. The remaining new cases were reported in 20 other Montana counties. (See…
By: MEG WINGERTER | The Denver Post A southwest Colorado resident was infected with plague after exposure to sick squirrels earlier this summer, the first confirmed case of the disease in humans in the state since 2015. But health officials emphasized that the public only needs to take normal precautions.Plague, a bacterial disease that’s typically…
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…