The Biden administration is making $482 million available to aviation industry manufacturers to help them avert job or pay cuts in the pandemic. The taxpayer-funded relief will cover up to half of the payroll costs at 313 companies, according to the Transportation Department, which said ...
Ohio is on pace to break 1.3 million cases of COVID-19 today with 1,294,162 cases reported as of Saturday, an increase of about 8,400 from the day before, according to the Ohio Department of Health. Friday, more than 9,000 new cases were reported for the first time since Jan. 8. The 8,405 new cases statewide is well above the 21-day average of 5,494. In the last week, Mahoning County has reported 798 new cases of the coronavirus, with 142 of those reported Saturday. The county’s total case count sits at 25,486, giving it the 11th-highest case count in the state. With 627 deaths ...
WARREN — Housing, job creation, economic development, and, of course, flooding were issues discussed during the 6th Ward American Rescue Plan community meeting on Thursday at Trumbull Community Action Program,1230 Palmyra Road SW. “Some of the $28 million should be used for police and ...
After starting the school year with mask-optional guidelines, two school districts have decided to make mask wearing mandatory for students and staff. Brookfield Local Schools will mandate mask wearing starting Monday. The Trumbull Career and Technical Center already mandated mask wearing Tuesday. TCTC Superintendent Jason Gray said at Thursday’s meeting the decision was made for a mask mandate as the school was approaching nearly 70 students being quarantined for close contact. “This week because we are all masked we did not have to quarantine any. The universal mask wearing ...
In just eight weeks, the number of COVID-19 cases in Ohio experienced an increase of more than 21 times. The count doesn’t include the 7,897 cases reported Thursday, which is the most for a single day since Jan. 9 with 8,374 cases. The state was at 582.4 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents for the period between Aug. 26 and Wednesday, according to statistics provided Thursday by the Ohio Department of Health. In comparison, the state was at 27 cases per 100,000 people July 15 — eight weeks ago. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers 100 cases per ...
Cases of COVID-19 continue to march higher at area nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, and deaths rose by three in Mahoning and Trumbull counties in the past two weeks. The more dramatic rise has been in statewide prison cases. They have nearly tripled in the past two weeks — from 60 to 168. The Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown saw an increase in staff cases from three to eight in just the past two days. There are no current inmate cases in any of the three local prisons. The Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown has two staff cases this week, and the ...
