LOCAL Oregon’s statewide total is now 1,663 cases. PORTLAND, Ore. — Three more Oregonians have died from COVID-19, bringing the state’s death toll to 58 people, state health officials said Wednesday.The Oregon Health Authority reported the following details about the people who died:Oregon’s 56th COVID-19 death is an 82-year-old man in Marion County, who tested…
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…