(AP) — Coronavirus- related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths and less than half of nursing home residents up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations. These alarming signs portend a difficult winter for seniors, which worries 81-year-old nursing home resident Bartley O'Hara, who said he is 'vaccinated up to the eyeballs' and tracks coronavirus hospital trends as they 'zoom up' for older adults, but remain flat for younger folks.
(AP) —A former Texas police officer on trial for murder testified Monday that he made mistakes, but said he had no choice when he fatally shot a Black woman through a rear window of her home in 2019 while staring down the barrel of a handgun she was pointing at him.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lamar Johnson has wrongly spent nearly three decades in prison for a St.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday refused a request from tobacco companies to stop California from enforcing a ban on flavored tobacco products that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in November.
(AP) —CVS and Walgreens have agreed to pay state and local governments a combined total of more than $10 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of opioids and now want to know by Dec. 31 whether states are accepting the deals.
(AP) —Work crews have steadily erected hundreds of doublestacked shipping containers topped by razor wire along Arizona's remote eastern boundary with Mexico in a bold show of border enforcement by Republican Gov.
HONOLULU (AP) — The eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii's Big Island continues to ease, scientists said Sunday, reinforcing an earlier pronouncement that the mountain's first flare-up in nearly 40 years might soon end.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Much of the central United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest was braced Tuesday for blizzardlike conditions, while states farther to the south saw tornado warnings from a massive storm blowing across the country.
Aniyah Gubitz, left, and Hollis Ray take center court during the “Shoveling” song of Nance Elementary School’s Christmas program, “On with the Snow!”
The Clinton Economic Development Authority met for a special meeting Monday to discuss proposals received for the Glancy Motel and Pop Hicks redevelopment project. After the authority was unable to reach a consensus on the proposals, a motion was approved to table the discussion until the authority’s next meeting Jan. 17.