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Dr. Randy Tobler, CEO of Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, Missouri, speaks by phone with Kaiser Health News (KHN). Photo Courtesy of Alisa Kigar. COLQUITT, GA - Rural hospitals may not be able to keep their doors open as the…

The toolkit has tips and resources to help keep children engaged, active and learning while schools are closed. Photo credit: Flamingo Images/Adobe Stock. ALBANY, N.Y. - With schools closing around the country to help slow the spread…

Broward Sheriff’s Office is warning residents that a social media post claiming representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are going to residences dressed in protective gear and conducting COVID-19 testing.…

Funeral homes — already well-versed in ways to prevent disease — are implementing even stricter protocols to handle bodies infected with the novel coronavirus. File photo. MARYLAND - As COVID-19 cases spread across the nation,…

Clothing designer, painter, muralist, and ceramic artist Haley Jane of California, said that, from the earliest of ages, she always knew that she wanted to be involved in creating art. Jane has turned her love of producing art into a…

Broward deputies responded to 1335 S. Dixie Highway in Deerfield Beach where they located a male victim, 16, with a gunshot wound. Homicide detectives are asking for assistance in identifying the subject’s vehicle thought to be a silver…

A brightline train sitting at the West Palm Beach, Florida station, just north of Pompano Beach. File photo. POMPANO BEACH, FL - A fatal train crash left a twenty-one yearl old woman dead in Pompano Beach on March 17, 2020. According…

Nearly two-thirds of uninsured Latino children reside in five states, including Florida, according to Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. File photo: Pixabay. TALLAHASSEE, FL — The COVID-19 health crisis has…

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – The Broward Sheriff’s Office is part of a unified command at Port Everglades. The unified command was established to ensure all of our federal, state and local partners are working together for the safety of…

About 7 million people across the San Francisco Bay Area began to “shelter in place” Tuesday to limit the spread of the new coronavirus. Although public health officials acknowledged the orders were drastic, they also agreed they were…

Overnight, Area Agencies on Aging had to figure out how to help people in their homes instead of at sites where they mingle and get various types of assistance. File photo. ILLINOIS - Close down group meals for seniors. Cancel social…

In the coming days, social distancing rules and recommendations may expand as federal, state and local health officials weigh conditions on the ground. So what to do now? File photo. CALIFORNIA – Just last week, it seemed OK to…

The nasopharyngeal swabs required for the coronavirus tests are quite different from your standard Q-tips — and the exploding need for them has created a bottleneck in the soaring demand for diagnoses. File photo. CALIFORNIA - The two…

The unknown female pictured is a suspect in a local case. She was captured on surveillance video on March 5, 2020. She was seen wearing a veil type covering over her face & body and leaving in a 2019, gray, Nissan Altima. WEST…

Huchnartheu Durandisse, 31, was transported to the Palm Beach County Jail and booked on the charges of first degree attempted murder with a deadly weapon and aggravated battery on a person over 65 years old. Photo credit: Mug shot, Palm…

WELLINGTON, FL - The Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office is seeking the public's assistance in identifying a suspect shown in home surveillance video to be “car creeping” various homes searching for open vehicles. According to…

In accordance with Chapter 775 the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is advising the public about a declared Sexual Predator who is now residing in Belle Glade, FL 33430. To view additional information about sexual predators in your…

Cars line up outside FoundCare, a community health center in West Palm Beach, Florida, for drive-thru COVID-19 testing Monday. Photo credit: Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News. WEST PALM BEACH, FL - A much-needed drive-thru…

There are many religions, all trying to reach and grasp, but all are vastly different in their beliefs and we should not be manipulated and fooled by false politics on this issue since we all, I hope, are honest thinkers and…

When our young people and middle-aged and old no longer read, they are ripe for demagoguery and being swayed by the forces of totalitarianism and dictatorial control. The present age which affords many alternative forms of entertainment,…

Octavio Berrera III, 46, was known to be in Florida Department of Corrections in Raiford. On November 21, 2019, an arrest warrant was requested, approved and signed by the Honorable Judge Martz. Arrangements were made to…

MIAMI, FL - The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating a police shooting involving officers of the Miami-Dade Police Department. The incident took place last night at approximately 8:30 p.m. near the intersection of…

Brian Sigouin, 33, was sentenced on one count of receipt of child pornography, and three counts of possession of child pornography. Sigouin received a prison term of 97 months, followed by 15 years of supervised release. Sigouin must also…

Dr. Keith Jerome (left), director of the UW Medicine Virology laboratory in Seattle, and Dr. Alex Greninger, assistant director of the lab, quickly ramped up a test to detect the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. As of March 11, their lab…

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill. Churchill once stated: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery”. How prescient he was in stating that…

According to police, the unknown person depicted on the photograph, driving a newer model blue Volkswagen Tiguan, shot the 17 year old male multiple times. Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are asking for any assistance in locating the…

Liberals say they want to admit illegal immigration or, rather, what they term the “undocumented immigrants.” The left defends the indefensible acts of wholesale slaughter and virtual genocide of the most vulnerable of innocent lives…

The COVID-19 outbreak has spawned confusion among health officials, doctors and the public, especially for people who don’t know whether they have the illness but instead fall into the gray area for testing and deciding whether to…

Tre'on Morgan, 18, plead guilty to the charges of Grand Theft Auto, Eluding Law Enforcement, and Vehicular Homicide. Morgan was sentenced to a total of 17 years within the Department of Corrections and ordered to pay court costs and…