What do New York City, a ski resort community in Idaho, the homes of two large Ohio prisons and a northeast Nebraska meatpacking center have in common?All rank among the American communities hit the hardest by the novel coronavirus.A World-Herald analysis of data for the nation’s counties shows those with the highest per-capita rates of…
Thursday morning.It remains unclear how many people have gotten better since initially testing positive as the state does not provide recovery data.More than 403,000 tests have been taken in Florida since early March, according to the health department. The vast majority (91 percent) of those results have come back negative. Another 561 were inconclusive and…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(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…