Within weeks of the Grand Princess cruise ship arriving off the California coast — an early harbinger of the coming coronavirus pandemic — Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the first statewide mandatory restrictions in the United States. He ordered California’s nearly 40 million residents to stay home to help combat the outbreak, but he didn’t stop…… MORE
Officers fatally shot a truck driver suspected of stabbing four women at a Tennessee truck stop. Three of the women, who worked at the Pilot Travel Center in Knoxville where investigators said they were attacked, died of their injuries. The fourth was taken to a hospital for treatment, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. When…… MORE
With deaths in New Orleans now topping 180 and funeral homes overwhelmed, the city rolled out a grim set of new guidelines this week on how to prepare and handle the victims of coronavirus. The city, one of the hardest hit in the state, has had at least 4,942 residents also test positive. “The COVID-19…… MORE
A tiny bit of optimism: Public health officials now say the US death toll from coronavirus could be much lower than predicted, thanks to (most) everyone’s scrupulous social distancing. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know…… MORE
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard’s brand, Hello Bello, is looking to hire camp counselors for their newly launched virtual kids camp. Hello Bello is the couple’s family brand that sells baby products such as diapers, vitamins and lotions. At the beginning of April, Camp Hello Bello launched on the company’s Instagram to help bring activities…… MORE
An 18-year-old Texas woman was arrested Tuesday after she claimed to be “willfully spreading” coronavirus in a series of Snapchat videos, Carrollton police said. Lorraine Maradiaga later told police she had tested negative for the virus, according to a Carrollton Police press release. Carrollton is about 20 miles north of Dallas. More than 399,800 people…… MORE
When a man like Ronald Lewis dies there’s supposed to be brass bands marching the streets, sharply dressed members of the New Orleans social clubs falling in behind the musicians, and Mardi Gras Indians dancing alongside them in their elaborately beaded suits. That didn’t happen. Lewis hasn’t received the tribute his family believes he deserves,…… MORE
The Baltimore Police Department has launched an internal investigation into a social media video that appears to show an officer repeatedly coughing near citizens in Southeast Baltimore, according to the department. The department’s Public Integrity Bureau has opened up an internal investigation and reviewed the online video, according to a release from BPD, as well…… MORE
A small clinic in central Pennsylvania has set up drive-through coronavirus testing that accommodates horse and buggies for its local Amish and Mennonite communities. The Central Pennsylvania Clinic in Belleville, a town known for its majority Amish and Mennonite population, is one of the only coronavirus testing facilities in the area. The clinic’s founder and…… MORE
Emergency room nursing staff at a Detroit hospital were told to leave Sunday night after they refused to work and demanded more nurses be brought into their overrun emergency room, health care workers there told CNN. The night shift ER nurses at Sinai-Grace Hospital refused to leave the break room until hospital administrators brought in…… MORE
JOHN PRINE passed away yesterday due to complications from COVID-19. He was 73. He was hospitalized in March and spent 12 days in intensive care. He’s survived by his wife Fiona and their three children. John started as a folk singer in the ’70s . He and Steve Goodman co-wrote the David Allan Coe classic “You Never Even Called Me by My Name”, but John chose…
Four days after going missing in a canoe accident, the body of Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean — Robert F. Kennedy‘s granddaughter — has been found. The search for the body of her young son Gideon will resume tomorrow. The boat was recovered last Thursday, Maeve’s body was recovered at about 5:31 p.m. on Monday about 2.5 miles away from…