The latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. TOP OF THE HOUR: — China pushes back against "Wuhan ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 3.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — more than quadruple the previous record set in 1982 — amid a widespread economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus. The surge in weekly applications was a stunning reflection of the damage the ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Leaders of the world's most powerful economies will convene virtually today to try and coordinate a response to the fast-spreading coronavirus, which has shuttered businesses and forced well over a quarter of the world's population into home isolation. The ...
U.S. deaths from the pandemic have now topped 1,000, in another grim milestone for a global outbreak that is taking lives and wreaking havoc on economies and established routines of life. Worldwide, the death toll climbed past 21,000, according to a running count kept by Johns Hopkins ...
BEIJING (AP) — Global stocks and U.S. futures declined today after the U.S. Senate approved a proposed $2.2 trillion virus aid package following a delay over its details and sent the measure to the House of Representatives. After two days of broad gains, indexes in London and Frankfurt ...
MADRID (AP) — The number of coronavirus infections were set to top a half-million worldwide today as both Italy and the United States appeared poised to surpass China, where the pandemic began, and Spain's death toll climbed to more than 4,000. Health care systems in Europe and New York ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Just days after New York leaders ordered people to stay home, authorities mobilized to head off a potential public health disaster today, with the city's emergence as the nation's biggest coronavirus hot spot a warning flare — and perhaps a cautionary tale — for the rest ...
WARREN — Warren City Council called off its meeting that was scheduled for tonight. Council was expected to place more than $32 million worth of construction projects forward. Three of four of the projects need to be completed by June 2021, according to Warren Waste Water Director Ed ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Barely a week ago, David McGraw was cooking daily for hundreds of fine diners at one of New Orleans' illustrious restaurants. Today, he's cooking for himself, at home — laid off along with hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. in a massive economic upheaval ...
COLUMBUS — There are 704 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state, the Ohio Department of Health reported today in its 2 p.m. daily update. That's up from 564 cases Tuesday. There are 10 dead as of today, up from eight on Tuesday. Two of the dead are each in Cuyahoga, Franklin and Stark ...
DUFUR, Ore. (AP) — The social distancing rules repeated like a mantra in America's urban centers, where the coronavirus is spreading exponentially, might seem silly in wide-open places where neighbors live far from each other and "working from home" means another day spent branding calves or ...
BEIJING (AP) — Trains carrying factory employees back to work after two months in locked-down cities rolled out of Hubei province, the center of China's virus outbreak, as the government today began lifting the last of the controls that confined tens of millions of people to their homes. ...
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 428,000 people and killed over 19,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. The COVID-19 illness causes mild or moderate symptoms in most people, but severe symptoms are more likely in the elderly or those with existing ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are wobbling in tentative morning trading on Wall Street this morning,as a historic, worldwide rally downshifts dramatically after just a day. The S&P 500 drifted up and down in a relatively tight band, a day after packing a year's worth of gains into Tuesday on ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are peaking higher in early morning trading on Wall Street today, as indexes look to lock in their first back-to-back gain since the market's brutal sell-off began last month on worries about the coronavirus outbreak. The S&P 500 was up slightly in the first few ...
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 428,000 people and killed over 19,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. The COVID-19 illness causes mild or moderate symptoms in most people, but severe symptoms are more likely in the elderly or those with existing ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Japan's Nikkei 225 surged 8 percent and most world markets were up today after Congress and the White House reached a deal to inject nearly $2 trillion of aid into an economy ravaged by the coronavirus. Wall Street was expected to dip on the open, a day after the Dow had its ...
MADRID (AP) — The death toll in Spain from the coronavirus shot up by more than 700 today, surpassing China and is now second only to Italy as the pandemic spread rapidly in Europe, with even Britain's Prince Charles testing positive for the virus. In India, the world's largest democracy, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and Senate leaders of both major political parties announced agreement early this morning on an unprecedented $2 trillion emergency bill to rush sweeping aid to businesses, workers and a health care system slammed by the coronavirus pandemic. The urgent ...
BRACEVILLE - Township trustees, at a special meeting this afternoon, passed a resolution opposing the proposed annexation of 27.952 acres of land from the township to Newton Falls Village. The land is located off Warren-Ravenna Road, including property in thea area of Venture ...