NEW YORK (AP) — Pennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, state health officials said Monday, making it the largest state outbreak in more than three decades. The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, with nearly 3,900 reported cases, according to the CDC. ...
The Associated Press Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an “unknown” cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week. Russian authorities said they found no evidence that her illness was caused by any of the pathogens she worked with. But the case has raised alarm in Russia after unconfirmed media reports suggested she might have died of pneumonic plague — a less common but severe form of plague that can spread from person to person. The woman ...
HOWLAND — A reported altercation between a woman and a motorist following a Howland High School football game in September is still under investigation. According to a police report obtained Monday, an officer was dispatched to the high school for an assault and spoke with Alysia Lealand, who said she was blocking traffic for the Howland band when she asked a man in a blue Tesla to move his vehicle. Lealand said the man then exited his vehicle and raised his fist in the air like he was going to hit her, adding that he then chest-bumped her, leading her to grab his shirt to prevent ...
MARIETTA (AP) — Speaking to a small gathering of supporters as the Ohio River flowed behind her, Dr. Amy Acton announced she was backing a three-year moratorium on permitting new injection wells for fracking in rural Washington County. It’s an issue that is top of mind for voters ...
YOUNGSTOWN — President Donald Trump is returning to the city. Trump will visit Youngstown for a midterm rally on Monday, oct. 12 at the Covelli Centre. The announcement of the rally was released today by the Republican National Committee. This will be Trump's second rally in Ohio in just ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a weekly series on our region’s history coordinated by the Trumbull County Historical Society. Charles Franklin Packard was born into one of Trumbull County’s most prominent families in 1867. Charlie’s father, Benjamin Franklin Packard, was a partner in his brother Warren’s prosperous lumber company. Charlie’s maternal grandfather, Uriel Holmes Hutchins, a Vienna native, was a well-respected attorney, and his great-uncle, John Hutchins, served as Warren’s mayor before being elected to Congress in 1858. Charlie was just a few years younger ...
