WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fourth straight time to a pandemic low, the latest sign that America’s job market is rebounding from the pandemic recession as employers boost hiring to meet a surge in consumer demand. The Labor ...

The day before he was supposed to start fourth grade, Francisco Rosales was admitted to a Dallas hospital with COVID-19, struggling to breathe, with dangerously low oxygen levels and an uncertain outcome. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, thought his frightened mother, Yessica Gonzalez. ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine strongly urged Tuesday that schoolchildren continue wearing masks in school at least for the beginning of the academic year to avert more drastic coronavirus measures, such as quarantines or a return to online learning. DeWine said the state ...

WOODSFIELD — Local health departments will offer a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to immunocompromised residents in an effort to help further protect those individuals from the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Ohio Department of Health announced a ...

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Belmont County Fair was reduced to junior fair events only last year due to the pandemic, but the outpouring of local support made the animal showings and sales so successful they exceeded a “normal” fair year. Now the Livestock Committee is meeting again in ...

The summer surge of the highly infectious delta variant of the coronavirus made for a disruptive start of the school year in many parts of the country Monday as hundreds of thousands of children returned to classrooms and parents, administrators and governors clashed over whether masks should ...