By JAMES LAPORTA and JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Navy intelligence specialist Colleen Grace was asleep on a remote air base in Iraq in 2019 when she was woken up by knocking on…
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Kathy J. Wilgus
Kathy J. Wilgus, 68, of West Mansfield, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020 at the Ohio State University-Wexner Medical Center. Born Feb. 26, 1952 in Kenton, she was the daughter of the late Bernard “B…
Mounting US deaths reveal an outsize toll on people of color
By ANNA FLAGG and DAMINI SHARMA of The Marshall Project and MIKE STOBBE and LARRY FENN of The Associated Press As many as 215,000 more people than usual died in the U.S. during the first seven months …
Quarantines, closures: Confusion reigns as schools reopen
By TAMMY WEBBER, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press Frightening calls from the school nurse. Waiting in vain for word from school officials. Canceled sports practices. Marching bands…
California wildfires some of largest in state history
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lightning-sparked wildfires in Northern California exploded in size Friday to become some of the largest in state history, forc…
Biden seeks Democratic, national unity in convention finale
By STEVE PEOPLES and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden vowed to unite an America torn by crisis and contempt Thursday night, accepting the Democratic presidential nomi…
Ex-Trump aide Bannon pleads not guilty in border wall scheme
By LARRY NEUMEISTER, COLLEEN LONG and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was pulled from a luxury yacht and arrested Thursday …
Rise in jobless claims reflects still-struggling US economy
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus recession struck swiftly and violently. Now, with the U.S. economy still in the grip of the outbreak five months later, the…
Record melt: Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in 2019
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1.25 meters) of water, a …
1 in 5 nursing homes short on PPE and staff in virus rebound
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One in five U.S. nursing homes faced severe shortages of protective gear like N95 masks this summer even as the Trump administration pledg…