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States crack down as Covid-19 hospitalizations reach an all-time high. But there's good news on the vaccine front
First, the good news: A second drugmaker just announced its Covid-19 vaccine has an astonishingly high success rate, based on clinical trial data.
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Marissa Gallegos with Medical Teams Northwest takes a swab from a person who was accessing COVID-19 testing at the Lane County Fairgrounds in Eugene, Oregon …
Published on November 16, 2020
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Small toy stores are worried they won't stay in business after this year
The winter holidays are typically the busiest, and most successful, time of the year for Erin Blanton, the owner of Pufferbellies toy store in Staunton, Virginia.
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Eateries form 'Save St. Louis Restaurants from Extinction' group
At Colbalt Smoke and Sea in Creve Coeur, owner Bernadette Faasen looks around her dining room and wonders how they will survive a month of empty tables.
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Investors are getting greedy again
The stock market, amazingly enough, is near an all-time high. Optimism about a coronavirus vaccine from Moderna is trumping renewed worries about another surge in Covid-19 cases. It seems safe to say that investors are feeling more greedy than fearful.
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School warnings about children's weight don't work, study says
The letter or report card is from your child's school, but this grade doesn't have anything to do with school performance or behavior. Instead, it's a measure of your child's body mass index or BMI -- designed to warn you when your child is overweight or obese.
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Hospitals may postpone surgeries due to reduced ICU capacities
Hospital officials continue to consider postponing non-urgent surgeries based on the limited capacity in intensive care units.
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Kamala Harris: Visualizing a Future Never Once Imagined
Barriers are meant to block someone or something from occurring. Just as they are meant to deter, barriers also can serve as motivation for someone to do what has never be done before. For years women have encounter roadblocks in the climb up the political ladder. Despite what was in their way they kept pressing forward, pushing the mark, never losing their focus. Never underestimate a woman who has ever been doubted. She will just smile in your face and say ‘Watch me work.’
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Georgia to conduct full by-hand count of presidential race ballots, secretary of state says
Georgia's secretary of state announced Wednesday that the state will conduct an audit of the 2020 presidential race, recounting by hand the millions of ballots cast in the state, where President-elect Joe Biden is leading.
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The 2020 races that *still* don't have a winner
The 2020 election is now in the country's rearview mirror. Well, mostly.
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Gov. DeSantis wants 'Stand Your Ground' expanded
Gov. Ron DeSantis is suggesting changes to Florida law, including an expansion to its self-defense law commonly known as Stand Your Ground.
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Homemade explosives found inside an abandoned trailer in San Benito County
Late Monday night, San Benito County Sheriff Deputies investigated a disturbance happening on Sunnyslope Road in Hollister. Upon arrival, deputies discovered an abandoned trailer on the property that was filled with 20 homemade, firework explosives.
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Homemade explosives found inside an abandoned trailer in San Benito County SOURCE: San Benito County Sheriff Credit: KSBW via San Benito County Sheriff
Published on November 11, 2020
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Texas has now surpassed one million Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In this photo, medical …
Published on November 11, 2020
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Texas becomes the first US state with more than 1 million Covid-19 infections
Texas has now surpassed one million Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University -- becoming the first US state to record such a staggering number of cases.
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Texas has now surpassed one million Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In this photo, medical …
Published on November 11, 2020
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After parents die of COVID within days of one another, daughter has somber plea
A woman in Doña Ana County is pleading with the community to take the coronavirus seriously after she lost both of her parents to COVID-19.
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TIRR Memorial Hermann, City of Houston, METRO partner to provide free flu shots
TIRR Memorial Hermann, the City of Houston Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities and the Metropolitan Transit Authority are partnering to provide free flu shots for METROLift riders and current or former patients of TIRR Memorial Hermann. The group is hoping to reach people with disabilities who may benefit from convenient access or need transportation assistance to get a flu shot.
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Hawai'i Island Police launch body cam program
The Hawaii County Police Department (HPD) officially launched its body camera program Monday.
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How to listen to Trump voters
We re-learned that lesson last week when swing states like Florida and Wisconsin performed far better in pre-election surveys for Joe Biden than with actual voters on Election Day. Trump won Florida despite polls putting Biden in the lead there and the President narrowly lost Wisconsin, where pollsters had predicted a much larger margin for Biden.
