The statewide count from the COVID-19 pandemic now exceeds 50,000 cases in Minnesota, health officials said Saturday, and cases are now being reported in all 87 counties. After standing for more than a month as the lone county without a confirmed case, Lake of the Woods County in far northern Minnesota now has one, according…
The United States passed a grim milestone Thursday, exceeding 4 million confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 145,000 deaths nationwide. As the virus continues to spread in more than 30 states, experts say it could be a while before the country sees the end of this surge of infections.In the early months of the pandemic in…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has announced 59 new COVID-19 cases in Alaska.DHSS reports 499 nonresidents have tested positive for COVID-19, an increase of seven from Thursday. The total resident case count is at 2,249.DHSS reports recovered cases are at 800, with 1,430 active cases. In…
By Laurel Mallory | July 24, 2020 at 2:56 PM EDT - Updated July 24 at 6:13 PM COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced 1,921 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 46 additional deaths on Friday. This brings the total number of people with…
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…