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The smokestacks at Louisville Gas and Electric’s Mill Creek coal-fired power plant in southeast Jefferson County tower over the neighborhood of Valley Village. Residents say they often wake up to soot covering their homes and vehicles. “I know it’s hard on my lungs or whatever, but I’ve worked my whole life around asbestos as an …

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputies seized 20,000 suspected fentanyl pills during a traffic stop last week. Members of the Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Unit stopped a car for undisclosed vehicle code violations some time last week. Three people were inside of the vehicle and were taken into custody without incident. After deputies searched the car, …

Preliminary data show Virginia’s maternal mortality rate more than doubled between 2018 and 2020, a sharp increase encouraging state officials to start doing ground-level interviews to figure out what’s driving pregnancy-related deaths. According to early numbers from Virginia’s Maternal Mortality Review Team, the state’s maternal mortality rate in 2018 was 37.1 deaths per 100,000 cases. In …

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / JAN. 17 A COVID-19 testing swab during testing at the Neal Blaisdell Center. The Hawaii Department of Health today reported 4,075 new COVID-19 infections over the past week, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 325,944. The state’s seven-day average of new cases was reported at 573, …

New Hampshire health officials reported eight new deaths related to COVID-19 on Tuesday.Officials reported three COVID-19-related deaths on Monday. The total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic is 2,555.There were 233 new known COVID-19 cases reported on Tuesday. There have been a total of 327,592 since the start of the pandemic. The …

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – The United Health Foundation is concerned about Virginia’s elderly population, after newly released data finds concerning statistics about drug overdoses. ”The increase that we see in, in the United States across all demographics, including seniors, is an increase in drug deaths related to non-prescription opioids,” Dr. Rhonda Randall with the United …

Anthony Albanese has been sworn in as prime minister, but we are still some way off knowing whether Labor can form government in its own right. Labor currently has 74 seats, with two more needed for a majority. Seven seats are still too close to call as ballots are counted and preferences are distributed. Labor’s …

Dr Kerry Chant has asked men who are gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men to be vigilant for monkeypox. “A large proportion of the cases detected overseas are amongst gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men,” she said. “We are urging men who are gay, bisexual or men who have …

Fewer Aussies are wearing facemasks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Only 78 per cent of Australians wore a face mask in the last week, the ABS found, down from 98 per cent in February this year. Meanwhile, of those testing for COVID-19, 96 per cent used a rapid antigen …

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Saturday reported 21 new deaths and 174,440 more people with fever symptoms as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19 across its unvaccinated population. The new deaths and cases, which were from Friday, increased total numbers to 27 deaths and 524,440 illnesses amid a rapid spread …