WYOMISSING, Pa. - In the parking lot of a closed Berkshire Mall in Wyomissing, cars lined up for an a-peel-ing offer.Tulpehocken Township-based Dieffenbach's Potato Chips recently got its hands on 40,000 pounds of Grade-A russet potatoes left behind by the hurting restaurant industry, and the company didn't want to see them go to waste. Chad…
Recent headlines have suggested vitamin D deficiency could increase the risk of dying from COVID-19, and in turn, that we should consider taking vitamin D supplements to protect ourselves. Is this all just hype, or could vitamin D really help in the fight against COVID-19? Read more: 5 ways nutrition could help your immune system…
The tower will be seasonal, between Memorial Day and Labor Day New lifeguard tower built at Asilomar State Beach The tower will be seasonal, between Memorial Day and Labor Day Hide Transcript Show Transcript TOWER IS GOING UP AT ASILOMAR STATE BEACH. OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS HAS INCREASED LIFEGUARD STAFFING AT…
(CNN)Two months into the pandemic battle, national politics have hardened into an ugly, dispiriting limbo amid a sense that during a generational crisis, there is no one in charge. Haunted by an invisible pathogen that has drained trademark energy and optimi…
The plan to reopen Illinois — from restaurants and salons to open space to non-COVID-19 procedures at the hospital to concerts and festivals — depends on a host of metrics laid out by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. The metrics focus on a rolling average of positive coronavirus cases and hospitalizations to keep track of the direction…
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…