Rural hospitals are closing throughout the country. Sidecar Health examines the causes for this problem, including the failure to expand Medicaid coverage in recent years.
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Almond Cow compiled a list of 10 plant-based desserts that will satisfy anyone’s sweet tooth, using recipes from Allrecipes and Almond Cow’s own repository.
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Stacker ranked 23 dog breeds by top speed, using data from the American Kennel Club, Vetstreet, and World’s Fastest Dogs.
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By Lauren Schott Click here for updates on this story LAPEER COUNTY, Michigan (WNEM) — An 80-year-old Lapeer County man died in a house fire Wednesday morning. Lapeer County 911 received a call from the 80-year-old homeowner at 3:22 a.m. on Dec. 1. The caller told 911 his house on Diehl Road in Metamora was
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Stacker has examined various entertainment and music sources to compile a list of 10 iconic bands that have reunited in the past five years.
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The omicron variant of the coronavirus has been found in a person in Minnesota who recently traveled to New York City last month.
Continue ReadingBy Eric Grossarth Click here for updates on this story RIGBY, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — A judge placed a man on probation for using a sword to threaten a woman. Shawn Winterfeld, 26, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and received his sentence on Nov. 1. Magistrate Judge Robert Crowley handed down the sentence, suspending 79 days
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Police in western Iowa have arrested a former high school math teacher accused of writing and planting notes threatening gun violence at the school. Council Bluffs police say in a news release that 37-year-old Katrina Phelan of Council Bluffs turned herself in to police on Wednesday after an arrest warrant
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By Liam Reilly, CNN The man who stood outside the United Nations with a shotgun held to his head has been taken into custody and transported to a hospital, New York Police Department First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker said at a news conference Thursday afternoon. Tucker said police responded to 911 calls for a man
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Webster Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Kansas (KCTV) — Kansas City, Kansas, police and the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a heartbreaking murder-suicide that involves children. They say a man shot a woman and two children, ages 3 and 7, before turning the gun on himself. He and
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TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Baltimore County police say they’ve solved a 40-year-old homicide of a teenage girl. The department announced Wednesday that DNA evidence has proven that John Anthony Petrecca Jr. killed Heather Porter, a 13-year-old girl whose body was found in a wooded area of Towson in September 1981. County detectives reviewed the case
Continue Reading By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Migrants seeking to enter the United States will again have to stay in Mexico as they await immigration hearings. The Biden administration reluctantly announced plans Thursday to accept the Trump-era policy and agreed to Mexico’s conditions for resuming it. That paves the way for returns to
Continue Reading BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. (AP) — A police detective and a suspect both died in a head-on collision of their vehicles near St. Louis following a police attempt to stop the suspect’s car. Police say the crash happened Wednesday afternoon after police tried to stop a car that had been reported stolen. The car sped off.
Continue Reading BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. (AP) — A police detective and a suspect both died in a head-on collision of their vehicles near St. Louis following a police attempt to stop the suspect’s car. Police say the crash happened Wednesday afternoon after police tried to stop a car that had been reported stolen. The car sped off.
Continue Reading WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Utah police say a man wanted by police was fatally shot and two officers were wounded in a shootout in a suburban Salt Lake City convenience store parking lot. West Valley City police say Anei Joker was wanted in a robbery and rape investigation. Officers found him Wednesday night
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Mackenzie Click here for updates on this story LAKE LURE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Several firefighters with the Lake Lure Volunteer Fire Department in Rutherford County are pulling double duty Wednesday, Dec. 1, as they work to extinguish the Huntsville Mountain fire in McDowell County. “We’ve got two or three [firefighters] out of
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Norfolk Southern Corp. said its CEO will retire next spring, and it will promote one of its executives to replace him. The railroad said Thursday that Jim Squires will step down as chairman and CEO on May 1 after seven years. Chief Marketing Officer Alan Shaw has been promoted
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The United States joined with international allies to impose new sanctions on Belarus Thursday in response to the migrant crisis on the border with Poland and the political repression and ongoing human rights violations committed by the Lukashenko regime. The US, United Kingdom, European Union, and Canada took coordinated action against
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A man accused of putting razor blades and screws in pizza dough at supermarkets in Maine and New Hampshire has been sentenced to four years and nine months in  prison. The hearing proceeded Thursday although 39-year-old Nicholas Mitchell of Dover, New Hampshire, was recovering from COVID-19 contracted in jail. The judge
Continue Reading By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jury selection has resumed in the trial of a suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in Daunte Wright’s shooting death. Heading into Thursday’s proceedings, prosecutors and attorneys had seated nine of the 14 jurors needed for former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial, with
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