MINGO JUNCTION — Teachers at Indian Creek Middle School began planning for the new school year as many questions remain on how classes will proceed. Gov. Mike DeWine set forth some guidelines from assessing symptoms and hygiene to sanitizing and social distancing, with teachers and staff ...
Determined to reopen America’s schools despite coronavirus worries, President Donald Trump proposed on Wednesday to hold back federal money if school districts don’t bring their students back in the fall. He said that his own public health officials’ safety guidelines are impractical ...
¯ The 74th-annual Weirton Steel Corp. 25-Year Club picnic set for July 18 has been canceled. ¯ A Caring Place Child Advocacy Center has canceled what would have been its rescheduled casino night fundraiser on July 18 at the Steubenville Country Club. ¯ The 50th-annual Covered Bridge Festival that had been scheduled for Sept. 19-20 at eight locations across Washington and Greene counties in Pennsylvania, has been canceled. ¯ All military meetings for the Jefferson County Veterans Association have been canceled until the end of summer. The cancellations include the annual ...
In May, the number of COVID-19 cases in Douglas County, Kan., increased by 14, from 52 to 66. In June, the number of cases increased by 63, bringing the total to 159. It was a drastic uptick in cases that caused the county to delay moving into its fourth stage of reopening. Douglas County is one of a number of counties across the country seeing an increase in cases as communities reopen. Ogden Newspapers spoke to three hospital leaders in Kansas, Michigan and Ohio about how prepared they feel their hospitals are to handle cases in light of recent statistics. Russ Johnson, president ...
After consistently moving toward flattening the curve, positive cases of COVID-19 have been climbing in the last two weeks across several states. Florida had the most dramatic increase of cases, jumping from 3,235 daily new cases per 100,000 people on June 22 to 9,019 daily new cases June 27, according to the Johns Hopkins University & Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center. During a live-streamed press conference in Pensacola on June 28, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that part of the reason for the rising case number was an increase in testing. “We’ve done more testing than we ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An additional 450 people in Pennsylvania have tested positive for the coronavirus, with nearly half the new cases coming from the Pittsburgh area, state health officials reported Monday. There were 218 new confirmed infections in Allegheny County, a virus hot spot that is home to Pittsburgh and 1.2 million people. Last week, county health officials announced a one-week ban on table service at bars and restaurants. Health officials have said that many of those testing positive lately are younger people who frequented bars and restaurants or who traveled out of ...
