BERN TWP., Pa. - Berks Heim has lost its first resident to the coronavirus.Berks County Commissioner Christian Leinbach announced Saturday that an 87-year-old woman in the county nursing home's dementia unit, Essex Commons, died Friday, the same day she tested positive for COVDI-19.Leinbach said the woman first showed symptoms of the virus on Thursday."The sad…
A fourth person from Kerr County has tested positive for coronavirus, Peterson Health announced on Wednesday afternoon. The person was exposed to the COVID-19 virus during a period of travel and had been self isolating in anticipation of becoming symptomatic. Peterson does not say if that person is currently being treated at Peterson Regional Medical Center…
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…