Alaska Life A gravesite for Mrs. E. Stepan, an Anchorage resident who died from the 1918 Spanish Flu. Photographed at the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery on Saturday, April 25, 2020. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Part of a continuing weekly series on local history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage history or…
Quarantine Routine is a regular feature that asks political power brokers and public figures how their daily lives have changed -- and how they're still doing their jobs -- during the coronavirus crisis. During an interview with Fox News on Thursday, evangelist Dr. Alveda King, the niece of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said despite the stress…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Bored during coronavirus quarantine? When looking for something to do, be sure that doesn’t include removing your own moles or skin tags, as some people have in a new “trend” on the social media app TikTok.At least one video of…
CLOSE A family in Virginia attempts to maintain structure for their kindergartener during school closure while also keeping grandparents safe from COVID-19. USA TODAYWhen Tamar Canady thinks about the upsides to the coronavirus pandemic, she thinks about how she and her 15-year-old daughter sleep in more these days. But the downsides are difficult.Ella Canady, like many teens, often…
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…