As students graduate in Los Angeles County, public health officials are warning against marking the milestone with drive-in celebrations.“I think it’s unfortunate that this is happening during a pandemic because we are asking that all graduations be virtual only,” Barbara Ferrer, the county public health director, said Saturday during a Facebook Live chat with Supervisor…
Tiger, Georgia, calls itself a “sleepy” town. So when the owners of the Tiger Drive-In movie theater posted that it was open on Facebook this month, they expected only their devoted customers among the roughly 2,000 living in the town would notice. The post reached more than a quarter of a million people. “I was…
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…