Playgrounds seem like — and in many cases are — a relatively safe pandemic activity, but there are factors that can complicate the issue. Playgrounds are “a great opportunity to get families together and be outside and enjoy, but do so in a safe way,” said Dr. Ada Stewart, a family physician with Cooperative Health
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India, home to the world’s worst ongoing coronavirus outbreak, has reported more than 17.6 million cases since the pandemic began last year. But the real number, experts fear, could be up to 30 times higher — meaning more than half a billion cases. Health workers and scientists in India have long warned that Covid-19 infections
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Here’s a look at the phone hacking scandal in the United Kingdom. Journalists at British newspapers are accused of making payments to police and hacking into the phones of celebrities, law makers, royalty, murder victims and other figures in the news. Most cases involve News Corp.’s News of the World, but the Sun as well
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the life of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Personal Birth date: April 30, 1949 Birth place: Lisbon, Portugal Birth name: Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres Father: Virgílio Guterres Mother: Ilda Cândida de Oliveira Marriages: Catarina Vaz Pinto (2001-present); Luisa Melo (1972-1998, her death) Children: A son, a daughter and a stepson
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Police say neighbors in a north Portland neighborhood helped them catch a burglar with a lengthy criminal history. Neighbors say the series of events took place Sunday while it was still daylight. Matt Kurowski says it started at his neighbor’s house. “He came through
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As the United States and the world continue to struggle in the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic, one truth has emerged — it didn’t have to be nearly this bad. Preparedness can prevent epidemics. Covid started as single and potentially containable outbreak before spreading rapidly across the globe and changing life as we know
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GRESHAM, Oregon (KPTV) — More than half a dozen people were shot in Gresham late Monday night, at the same location a person was found dead the day before. Officers responded to a reported shooting at Southeast 174th Avenue and Southeast Stark Street around 11:30 p.m. At the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RHINELANDER, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A male bald eagle died after wildlife officials believe it was exposed to a toxin or poison used to control rodents. Wild Instincts, a wildlife rehabilitation center in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, says the poisons are concerning not only for wildlife, but pets as well. Wild
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — he cause of death has been ruled accidental for a 10-year-old boy discovered in his burning northwest side home Friday, April 23. In the days since the fire, neighbors say it’s difficult to look at the boarded up house. People have dropped off balloons and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story EDMOND, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — University of Central Oklahoma researchers are trying to better understand Oklahoma’s “alarming” veteran suicide metrics while developing new strategies to reverse long-term trends. Oklahoma’s veteran suicide rate in 2018 is 10th highest in the nation, according to the latest data available from the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — A Davenport congregation that’s been meeting in a gymnasium for the last three and a half years wants to build a permanent home in the woods. Davenport zoning code, city staff, and Plan and Zoning Commission members say otherwise. “It’s changing people’s lives,”
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PLATTEVILLE, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — The new beginnings were plentiful at this old-school way of commerce. The broccoli plants were three inches high, flats of pansies and impatiens were waiting to bloom, and hundreds of hanging baskets had yet to see a front porch. A food trailer
Continue Reading When Tameka Boone walked into a Virginia dentist’s office in late February for a six-month checkup, she never expected to come face to face with the woman who saved her life when she was a toddler. Tameka, nicknamed “lost and found” as a child by her family, recognized the name “Trudy Gunn” on the appointment
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US officials say Covid-19 vaccines are our way out of the pandemic. But the US faces a stubborn challenge — vaccine hesitancy — which could prevent some communities from reaching widespread protection levels and suppressing the spread of the virus. Providing strong incentives to get a shot could help, some experts say. “Many Americans want
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India is in crisis. Hospitals have run out of supplies, family members are desperately driving from clinic to clinic in search of a spare bed for their loved ones, and mass cremations are a daily occurrence, as hundreds of thousands more people are infected with Covid-19 each day. The country has reported more than 17.6
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — The novel coronavirus has been well documented in cats big and small across the world, and now a U.K. study shows evidence of human-to-cat transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in two cases. The two cats were from different households and suffered different severities of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — New research from the United Kingdom suggests shift workers are associated with higher likelihoods of COVID-19 hospitalization compared to people with more traditional working hours. Using data from more than 280,000 participants in the U.K. Biobank study, hospital episode statistics and U.K. health
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Amanda Saucedo did everything the natural parenting blogs she read told her to do before she brought her newborn son Ben into her bed to co-sleep in October 2014. “I was a single mom of two kids, so I took sleep any way I could get it,” said Saucedo, who was 27 at the time.
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The bill features a measure that prohibits law enforcement officers from using a respiratory choke-hold unless deadly force is authorized under the law.
Continue Reading Noor Kayas fled the refugee camp without telling anyone at home. At sea the next morning, the teenager used a satellite phone to call her mother, Gule Jaan, 43, to say she was heading for Malaysia on a small wooden boat, packed with 87 Rohingya refugees, including 65 women and girls. Some were fleeing what
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