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The village is the latest among law enforcement agencies in its state to adopt a records management and dispatch system to let officers spend more time in the field and stay connected with neighboring agencies.
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With the communications department operating at a 35 percent staffing shortage, dispatchers are working overtime and callers may wait up to 20 minutes for emergency assistance.
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Doctors with OU Health shared advice and information about what they’re seeing during this surge, what the omicron variant looks like in children, and when COVID-19 symptoms are cause for concern.
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Simmons was accused in 1998 of setting fire to a vacant home and, in a separate incident, lighting toilet paper and ceiling tiles in the basement of Dupo Senior High School, where he was a student.
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In recent years, more than half the districts receiving certain disaster relief served disproportionately large shares of at least two groups of vulnerable students, like English-language learners and children from low-income backgrounds.
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“Even though the omicron virus is less virulent, it is much easier to spread. The numbers will be overwhelming. Add to that the cases within our own workforce and it is going to be challenging.”
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In the fourth-floor intensive care unit, tired nurses tended to three COVID patients at a time instead of their normal two. Five nurses were out sick and those tasked with scheduling staff likened it to a game of “Tetris.”
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Officials announced 31,576 new cases Monday, as well as 27 related deaths, compared with 3,360 new cases reported on Dec. 17. Monday’s figures, officials cautioned, might be undercounts because of reporting delays.
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The advisory was issued early Saturday after an underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga. The National Weather Service first issued a statement about 4 a.m. announcing the eruption was being evaluated for a tsunami.
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The Colorado chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians told the governor’s office in a five-page letter that doctors are having to triage which patients will receive the limited hospital beds available.
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Alaska on Wednesday reported 4,520 new COVID-19 cases among residents and nonresidents over the previous two days. That breaks down into 2,494 cases Tuesday and 2,026 on Monday.
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While the null and hospitalizations null, experts fear the next phase will come to areas of the country that are least prepared for it.
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Before the omicron variant drove up case numbers, the number of kids hospitalized for COVID-19 hadn’t reached past 30 patients. Now there are 34 kids hospitalized at Children Mercy.
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The severity of each case is often based on a person’s vaccination status, their age and overall health. But even then there are unknowns.
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Tornadoes raked Western Kentucky on the night of Dec. 10 and early morning of Dec. 11, killing 77 people and destroying hundreds of homes, stores, churches and other buildings.
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The current model of volunteer firefighting in Pennsylvania is based on the long-standing tradition going back to the 1700s when Ben Franklin founded the first volunteer department in Philadelphia.
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Still, Pennsylvania hospitals face a record-setting surge of patients who have tested positive for COVID-19, causing overcrowded emergency rooms, cutbacks of non-emergency surgeries and patients being cared for in make-shift spaces.
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The Bay Area’s seven-day average of new cases soared to more than 243 per 100,000 residents on Sunday, up from 11 per 100,000 residents just a month earlier.
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"We're now at a point that we have not seen through this pandemic," Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian , the state's chief medical executive, said Tuesday. The Detroit area is hardest hit with the highest hospitalization rate in the state from the virus.
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The metro area has the nation’s fourth worst job shortfall from the “pandemic recession,” Fed economists wrote in their report. The area had 8.1% fewer jobs in October 2021 than it did prior to the pandemic.
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