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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — When negotiations failed to produce a new contract at a Volvo plant in Virginia this spring, its 2,900 workers went on strike. The company soon dangled what looked like a tempting offer — at least to the United Auto Workers local leaders who recommended it to their members: Pay raises. Signing […]

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people forced to flee South Lake Tahoe could begin returning to their homes after evacuation orders were downgraded to warnings Sunday afternoon as crews made progress against a massive wildfire. The orders that sent 22,000 people in and around the resort fleeing last week were […]

Ivermectin is used to treat parasites in animals — and sometimes humans — but it’s not an anti-viral and more importantly, it’s not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for COVID-19 treatment.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Power should be restored to New Orleans by the middle of next week, utility officials said Friday, and sheriff’s deputies warned people returning to communities outside the city to come equipped like survivalists because of the lack of basic services in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. The storm knocked out electricity […]

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — The COVID-19 surge is stretching oxygen supplies and sending hospitals scrambling for more ventilators, even as there are signs of hope that the spread of the virus is slowing down in pockets of the U.S. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a hospital recently called 911 after coming within just a few hours of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan late Monday, ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a frantic final exit that cost the lives of more than 180 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members, some barely older […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Southern Lousiana’s hospitals, already packed with coronavirus patients from a fourth surge of the virus, were dealing Sunday with another challenge — the howling Category 4 hurricane pounding the coast. “Once again we find ourselves dealing with a natural disaster in the midst of a pandemic,” said Jennifer Avegno, the top […]

PEARL, Miss. (WJTV) – Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 storm in Louisiana on Sunday, August 29. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) Executive Director Stephen McCraney said Sunday and Monday will be very active weather days in the state. He encouraged Mississippians to have multiple ways to receive weather warnings. Neighbors could see […]

“We were a team, and I cannot believe that you are gone,” Beth Valentine Dollar wrote on Facebook.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Sixteen emergency department medical directors said current state of affairs in the Memphis and Shelby County is at a critical juncture. Those medical directors voiced their concerns in a letter to city and county mayors. These medical directors said that the mandate should be in place until medical systems can return to […]

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday upped the pressure on the growing number of public school districts defying a state ban on mask mandates as they try to slow the spread of the coronavirus.