Just hours after Santa Clara County reported its first coronavirus-related death, the county has implemented a mandatory ban on all large gatherings in hopes of containing the spread of the deadly virus — the most sweeping preventive measure yet taken in California. The ban, which will begin at midnight on Wednesday and span at least
Hattiesburg police are trying to locate 19-year-old John Michael Weeks of Hattiesburg as part of an investigation into the discovery of a body about 2 p.m. Friday in the 1900 block of Mamie Street. The male body found is believed to be a missing individual, Jim Travis Rainey, 36, of Hattiesburg. Rainey was a suspect
The nation’s largest supermarket chain is limiting the sales of some medicines and sanitizing products amid a growing outbreak of the coronavirus in the U.S. The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) issued a notification on its mobile app alerting customers that it is limiting the sale of sanitation and cold and flu related products to five
Inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman say chronic staff shortages and rampant violence have led some prisoners to insert their own catheters, treat their own stab wounds and suffer through seizures without medication. In many instances, there is one guard for every 160 inmates, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District
The World Health Organization has said the world should do more to prepare for a possible coronavirus pandemic. The WHO said it was too early to call the outbreak a pandemic but countries should be “in a phase of preparedness”. A pandemic is when an infectious disease spreads easily from person to person in many
