Illinois residents 16 years of age and older with underlying conditions are now able to be vaccinated for COVID-19 in the state’s latest expansion of vaccination Phase 1B.
A Burlington High School teacher directed students to consider COVID-19 conspiracy theories months before the teacher’s methods came under public scrutiny, records show.
Today's update from the LA Dept. of Health has the number of total cases for the State at 427,689 an increase of 779 cases since yesterday. These numbers list 2,864 cases for Vernon, 2,805 cases for Beauregard, 2,973 cases for Allen, 11,224 cases for Rapides, 19,181 cases for Calcasieu, 2,769 cases for Sabine, and 3,852 cases for Natchitoches Parish. The numbers show 9,561 deaths so far from COVID-19 in the State, with 96 from Vernon Parish, 65 from Beauregard Parish, and 85 from Allen Parish.
Montana reported 209 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, and two more of its residents have died due to the respiratory virus.
Here is a look at the life of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL).PersonalBirth date: April 19, 1957Birth place: Aden, YemenBirth name: Mukesh Dhirubhai AmbaniFather: Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of RelianceMother: Kokilaben AmbaniMarriage: Nita…
Special Olympics Montana has surpassed $7 million in its largest fundraising campaign since the non-profit launched more than 50 years ago. That campaign began with donations from two Billings philanthropists.
SEATTLE, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Joanne Dragun, medical director of radiation oncology at GenesisCare in Jacksonville, Florida, will be installed as president of the American College of Radiation Oncology at the college's annual meeting Wednesday, Feb. 24 - Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. ACRO represents over 1,300 physicians, including residents, who are in the field of radiation oncology throughout the United States. GenesisCare is one of the leading providers of radiation oncology care in the U.S.
SEATTLE, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The progress in the Washington House of Representatives surrounding House Bills 1054 and 1267 are encouraging to any and all who have worked toward police reform in the Evergreen State. The former will ban problematic police tactics such as tear gas use and chokeholds while the latter requires specially trained personnel to investigate any police-involved shootings.
SEATTLE, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Edge Delta, the leading automated observability platform for Kubernetes, containers, and microservices in the cloud, today announced new capabilities for dynamically processing and routing logs, metrics, and traces. The innovative approach allows DevOps, Security, and SRE teams to analyze large volumes of streaming data without the cost, delay, or complexity of requiring data to be indexed, helping customers decouple where machine data is analyzed from where it is stored.
SEATTLE, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Washington made history when the State House Transportation Committee voted late yesterday to advance legislation calling for all model year 2030 or later passenger and light-duty vehicles sold in the state to be electric vehicles (EVs). Introduced by Rep. Nicole Macri (D-Seattle), Clean Cars 2030 (HB 1204) sets the first 2030 gas car phaseout target in the country.
POCATELLO, Idaho, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Mountain America Credit Union is gifting more than 2,200 brand-new winter coats to students in the Pocatello School District. On February 10, Mountain America, in partnership with Operation Warm, distributed over 200 coats to students at Tendoy Elementary School, and an additional 2,000 coats will be given to children in need at other Pocatello schools.
Mackenzie Scott, one of the wealthiest people on the planet, is donating more than $4 billion to hundreds of community organizations across the country. $5 million of that is coming to Racine County.
The grim COVID milestone we've been awaiting with trepidation arrived Monday, as predicted: 500,000 American lives lost. President Biden gave an evocative speech about the toll this has taken on our country. The flags are flying at half-staff. Even so,…
SEATTLE, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MJ Brand Insights, published by Jage Media Inc., announced a strategic and exclusive content partnership with Pioneer Intelligence, a new consumer marketing performance intelligence solution for cannabis brands across the US.
SEATTLE, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Data platform provider SoundCommerce today announced its $15M Series-A financing led by leading enterprise SaaS venture firm Emergence Capital with participation from existing investors Defy Partners and Voyager Capital. The funding coincides with SoundCommerce's commercial acceleration across the global consumer retail industry, fueling the company's expanded hiring, platform capabilities and customer engagement.
RENTON, Wash., Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The market is flooded with UVC-based sanitizing devices due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these devices don't have the proper safeguards to protect the user against UVC exposure, and most can't be used with an occupant present. This really defeats the purpose of protecting the occupants against airborne viruses. Aleddra's Air-Sanitizing Desktop Lamp is ultra-violet (UV) free and provides effective and continuous air-sanitization when occupants are in the room.
China is testing President Biden, but his party is still preoccupied with Donald Trump. Chinese authorities refused to provide World Health Organization investigators with raw data on early COVID-19 cases that could help them determine how and when the coronavirus spread in China. The stakes in learning as much as we can from this pandemic couldn’t be higher. But it’s unclear if our new leaders are ready to confront China’s increasingly intransigent leaders, who are keen to promote unlikely theories on the origins of the virus that absolve them of culpability.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State lawmakers gave final approval Monday to legislation that will end capital punishment in Virginia, a dramatic turnaround for a state that has executed more people in its long history than any other.
To capture unique footage of a grizzly bear romping in the snow or a bald eagle swooping in to claim a morsel in Yellowstone National Park, Gardiner-based filmmaker Bob Landis has always been required to purchase a permit from the National Park Service.
Philanthropist Calvin Tyler Jr., and his wife, Tina, pledged $20 million Monday to his alma mater Morgan State University, which the university said is the largest gift to any HBCU ever made by one of its former students.
BOISE – The Idaho House voted 40-30 on Monday to accept $24 million in federal child care aid from the December COVID relief act, while an opponent argued the money wasn’t needed and the pandemic is “waning.”
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An ammunition customer showed no sign of anger or agitation before he launched a sudden shooting rampage at a New Orleans area gun store, the local sheriff said Monday, two days after the attack left three people, including the shooter, dead.
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) —
The Montana Senate voted Monday to advance a bill that would allow parents of public school students to opt out of sex education and would ban abortion providers from offering information in schools.
