In a week where headlines mostly avoided COVID-19, Alabama added nearly 2,500 cases of the virus - the second highest weekly total since the start of the pandemic. But deaths due to the virus seem to be flattening out, and new hospitalizations reached a new low this week.According to the Alabama Department of Public Health,…
A second Ebola outbreak has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, some 600 miles from an ongoing epidemic that has claimed more than 2,200 lives. According to the World Health Organization six cases of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever have been identified and four people have so far died near Mbandaka, the regional capital of Équateur Province.…
Florida health officials on Wednesday confirmed the second case of West Nile Virus (WNV) in Miami-Dade County.Officials said a resident was confirmed to have contracted the virus from a local transmission, making it the second case for the county in 2020, according to the Miami Herald.The county health department declared a mosquito-borne illness alert on May…
A second hairstylist at a Missouri salon has tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of people exposed to the virus up to 147. On Friday, authorities in the city of Springfield said 91 people were at risk of contracting Covid-19 after a stylist worked for more than a week with symptoms. Of…
Health officials in Missouri announced over the weekend that a second hairstylist who works at a Great Clips in Springfield may have exposed over 50 clients to COVID-19 after it was discovered she worked at the salon for a week earlier this month while experiencing mild symptoms.The Springfield-Greene County Health Department announced the news on…
Oregon wanted FSIS to allow state establishments — located in states operating under a cooperative agreement with FSIS to enforce requirements “at least equal to” federal requirements — to slaughter or process amenable species for subsequent use at federal establishments within the same state. Published: January 20, 2026, 12:05 am The simple request the Oregon
9 min read The following story contains spoilers for Landman season 2, episode 10, “Tragedy and Flies.” "LIFE AIN'T GOT a plan for you. You got to have the plan. Then you wrestle with life to make it come true.” It was only one episode ago that T.L. (Sam Elliott), summabitch prophet that he is
You’re going through something big, but you don’t speak up. You’re exhausted, but you white-knuckle through the day. Your friends offer help, but you brush it off. If this sounds familiar, you probably pride yourself for being self-sufficient and always tending to your own needs. But when you make a conscious choice to remain an