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By responding to 911 calls involving mental health crises with a specialized team including a clinical social worker, the program cut hospitalization rates. Permanent funding may be on the way. -
The Flathead County Sheriff's Office is set to receive a new remote underwater vehicle after getting approval from county commissioners on Tuesday.
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The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office on Monday arrested the man after he reportedly stole a vehicle from a business in east Fort Collins, set it on fire and damaged nearby agricultural land.
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“I’m pissed. I’m pissed about how this country has handled this thing. I’m pissed about how our state has handled it,” Wells said last week, as he made funeral arrangements. “I mean our bars are open right now. It’s ridiculous. Our kids can’t go to school and our bars are open. What the hell?”
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Relatives said she worried about depleted personal protective equipment and described her workplace as a scene out of “M*A*S*H,” the hit television sitcom about an Army hospital during the Korean War.
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Six months after issuing the emergency order, Walz said he is looking for declines in both the positivity rate of COVID-19 diagnostic testing, and the rate of infections that can't be traced to community sources.
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Feeling new urgency from a historic wildfire season, Western legislators have put forward proposals for addressing the region’s forests, which are unnaturally overgrown thanks to decades of fire suppression.
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"My recovery is a daily fight, but fighting makes me stronger," Giffords said. "Words once came easily. Today I struggle to speak, but I've not lost my voice. America needs all of us to speak out even when you have to fight to find the words."
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The state suspended use of the California lab, NovaDX, on Wednesday, a day after The News informed Texas officials of a federal inspection report from July. The report questioned the qualifications of lab workers and found practices that could allow contamination of samples.
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The wariness, which public health experts call highly unusual if not unprecedented, could undercut the goal of a cohesive national immunization strategy and create a patchwork of efforts that may sabotage hopes of containing the coronavirus.
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The prevalence of the virus began to drop in May, when there was an average percent positivity of 9.6 percent. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers a region to have control of community spread if the percent positivity rate drops below 5 percent.
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FEMA, with the help of state officials, has identified and catalogued available housing in the state, including hotel rooms and apartments. “They have that list, so going through FEMA is the best way to get access to housing.”
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So far, this hurricane season has already seen 20 named storms, enough to blow through nearly all of the names assigned to 2020. That’s still well within NOAA’s prediction for a record-breaking season.
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Rivers tend to flood hours or even days after a major storm has passed because they’re collecting rainfall dumped across their entire watershed. Hurricane Sally has been projected to bring large amounts of rain.
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Sally’s sustained winds reached 105 mph, as measured by an Air Force Reserve reconnaissance aircraft and Doppler weather radar in Mobile, Ala., the NHC said. Category 2 wind speeds are 96-110 mph.
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Newspapers have been closing at a rapid clip, buckling under the pressure from changing news consumption habits, advertising shifts and many other factors, including consolidated corporate ownership.
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As of 7 a.m. Tuesday, the hurricane was about 85 miles south of the east end of Dauphin Island, crawling northwest at 2 mph. According to Jim Stefkovich, meteorologist for the Alabama Emergency Management Agency,
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“Almost every state has some sort of response to the state of Oregon and we can’t thank them enough as we now being to look towards recovery,” State Fire Marshal Mariana Ruiz-Temple said during an afternoon briefing.
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As of Thursday evening the Sheriff’s Office had received 124 calls requesting welfare checks of people in the evacuation zone. Some called to say they had not heard from a loved one in those zones.
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Hospital bed availability changes daily, especially during COVID-19, as patients are admitted and discharged. The software gives staff a real-time look at data as it evolves, so they can develop models from different variables.
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More than 500,000 acres in Washington burned in just 48 hours after numerous fires started Monday across central and Eastern Washington. That is more than four times the amount of land that burned in all of 2019, and about half the amount that burned in 2015.
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