LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Cadell Walker rushed to get her 9-year-old daughter Solome vaccinated against COVID-19 — not just to protect her but to help stop the coronavirus from spreading and spawning even more dangerous variants. “Love thy neighbor is something that we really do believe, ...
MARTINS FERRY — The First Presbyterian Church of Martins Ferry is offering free Thanksgiving dinners to anyone in need this Thursday. The free meals will be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thanksgiving Day at the church, located at 400 Walnut St. Barbara Vickers Morris, an elder of the ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Thanksgiving and Black Friday signal the start of heavy winter traffic resuming, particularly following last year’s COVID-19 lockdowns. The American Automobile Association expects the highest single-year increase in Thanksgiving travel since 2005. Nearly 2.2 million ...
Challenges to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers will be consolidated in the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel dominated by judges appointed by Republicans. The Cincinnati-based court was selected Tuesday in a random drawing using ping-pong balls, a process employed when challenges to certain federal agency actions are filed in multiple courts. The selection could be good news for those challenging the administration’s vaccine requirement, which includes officials in 27 Republican-led states, employers and several conservative and ...
LONDON (AP) — Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has signed a deal with a U.N.-backed group to allow other manufacturers to make its experimental COVID-19 pill, a move that could make the treatment available to more than half of the world’s population. In a statement issued Tuesday, Pfizer said it would grant a license for the antiviral pill to the Geneva-based Medicines Patent Pool, which would let generic drug companies produce the pill for use in 95 countries, making up about 53% of the world’s population. The deal excludes some large countries that have suffered devastating ...
DETROIT (AP) — Take a step back from the picked-over store shelves, the stalled container ships and the empty auto showrooms, and you’ll find a root cause of shortages of just about everything. Even as the pandemic has dragged on, U.S. households flush with cash from stimulus checks, ...
