SIGN UP FOR BREAKING NEWS Get local stories sent straight to your inbox as news breaks. Privacy Notice The exterior of the Tyson Plant in Van Buren Tyson worker at Van Buren plant dies from coronavirus A worker at the Tyson plant in Van Buren has died from COVID-19, a company spokesperson confirmed Friday."We are…
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) - The highest one-day number of new cases of COVID-19 was confirmed by the La Crosse County Health Department on Friday. With 27 new cases, La Crosse County's total to is now 384. As of Wednesday, 171 are considered recovered and 213 active cases in the county. Today's positive rate was…
A health care worker administers a coronavirus test to a patient in Tampa, Fla. | Octavio Jones/Getty Images TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida reported nearly 9,000 new coronavirus cases Friday, shattering its previous daily record and prompting Gov. Ron DeSantis to pull back on his full-speed-ahead economic reopening strategy. The spike in infections has framed Florida…
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled on Friday that the Trump administration did not have the authority to transfer $2.5 billion from the Pentagon to President Trump’s border wall without congressional approval, most likely sending the matter to the Supreme Court.The 2-to-1 decision, which sided with environmental groups that brought the…
(CNN)President Donald Trump said on Twitter Friday that he has signed an executive order on protecting monuments, an action the President had been teasing for the past week. "I just had the privileg…
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…