Saturday, November 16, 2024

Florida grapples with COVID-19's deadliest phase yet

MIAMI (AP) — Funeral director Wayne Bright has seen grief piled upon grief during the latest COVID-19 surge.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Florida grapples with COVID-19's deadliest phase yet

MIAMI (AP) — Funeral director Wayne Bright has seen grief piled upon grief during the latest COVID-19 surge.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Florida grapples with COVID-19's deadliest phase yet

MIAMI (AP) — Funeral director Wayne Bright has seen grief piled upon grief during the latest COVID-19 surge.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Florida grapples with COVID-19's deadliest phase yet

MIAMI (AP) — Funeral director Wayne Bright has seen grief piled upon grief during the latest COVID-19 surge.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Cruise lines require vaccinations, tests, amid virus surge

MIAMI (AP) — Joel Steckler was eager for his first cruise in more than a year and a half, and he chose the ship that just two months ago became the first to accept passengers again after a long pandemic shutdown.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Cruise lines require vaccinations, tests, amid virus surge

MIAMI (AP) — Joel Steckler was eager for his first cruise in more than a year and a half, and he chose the ship that just two months ago became the first to accept passengers again after a long pandemic shutdown.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Cruise lines require vaccinations, tests, amid virus surge

MIAMI (AP) — Joel Steckler was eager for his first cruise in more than a year and a half, and he chose the ship that just two months ago became the first to accept passengers again after a long pandemic shutdown.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Panic attacks highlight stress at shelters for migrant kids

Paramedics were called regularly to treat children suffering from panic attacks so severe their hands would constrict into balls and their bodies would shake. The outbursts often occurred after other children were taken away to be reunited with families, dashing the hopes of those left behind at the largest emergency …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Panic attacks highlight stress at shelters for migrant kids

Paramedics were called regularly to treat children suffering from panic attacks so severe their hands would constrict into balls and their bodies would shake. The outbursts often occurred after other children were taken away to be reunited with families, dashing the hopes of those left behind at the largest emergency …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Panic attacks highlight stress at shelters for migrant kids

Paramedics were called regularly to treat children suffering from panic attacks so severe their hands would constrict into balls and their bodies would shake. The outbursts often occurred after other children were taken away to be reunited with families, dashing the hopes of those left behind at the largest emergency …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Texas push to close shelters for migrant kids alarms groups

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A move by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to shutter more than 50 shelters housing about 4,000 migrant children could seriously disrupt a national program that already faces strained capacity to properly care for minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Texas push to close shelters for migrant kids alarms groups

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A move by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to shutter more than 50 shelters housing about 4,000 migrant children could seriously disrupt a national program that already faces strained capacity to properly care for minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Texas push to close shelters for migrant kids alarms groups

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A move by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to shutter more than 50 shelters housing about 4,000 migrant children could seriously disrupt a national program that already faces strained capacity to properly care for minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

'There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone

LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings. Then, as the 12-year-old Salvadoran girl got on an inflatable raft to cross the Rio Grande in Texas in the middle of the …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

'There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone

LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings. Then, as the 12-year-old Salvadoran girl got on an inflatable raft to cross the Rio Grande in Texas in the middle of the …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

'There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone

LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings. Then, as the 12-year-old Salvadoran girl got on an inflatable raft to cross the Rio Grande in Texas in the middle of the …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

'There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone

LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings. Then, as the 12-year-old Salvadoran girl got on an inflatable raft to cross the Rio Grande in Texas in the middle of the …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

US agents encounter more single adults crossing border

LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — Parents emerge from the brush into a baseball field, carrying exhausted children. Border Patrol agents dictate orders: Families with young children in one line and unaccompanied children in another. The smallest of three lines is for single adults.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

US agents encounter more single adults crossing border

LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — Parents emerge from the brush into a baseball field, carrying exhausted children. Border Patrol agents dictate orders: Families with young children in one line and unaccompanied children in another. The smallest of three lines is for single adults.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

US agents encounter more single adults are crossing border

LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — Parents emerge from the brush into a baseball field, carrying exhausted children. Border Patrol agents dictate orders: Families with young children in one line and unaccompanied children in another. The smallest of three lines is for single adults.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

US agents encounter more single adults are crossing border

LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — Parents emerge from the brush into a baseball field, carrying exhausted children. Border Patrol agents dictate orders: Families with young children in one line and unaccompanied children in another. The smallest of three lines is for single adults.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

New migrant facilities crop up to ease crowding, again

For the third time in seven years, U.S. officials are scrambling to handle a dramatic spike in children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone, leading to a massive expansion in emergency facilities to house them as more kids arrive than are being released to close relatives in the United States.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

New migrant facilities crop up to ease crowding, again

For the third time in seven years, U.S. officials are scrambling to handle a dramatic spike in children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone, leading to a massive expansion in emergency facilities to house them as more kids arrive than are being released to close relatives in the United States.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

New migrant facilities crop up to ease crowding, again

For the third time in seven years, U.S. officials are scrambling to handle a dramatic spike in children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone, leading to a massive expansion in emergency facilities to house them as more kids arrive than are being released to close relatives in the United States.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Gaetz vows to fight, tries to stay on offensive amid scandal

MIAMI (AP) — The mere whiff of a scandal once unraveled political careers with stunning speed. Not anymore.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Gaetz vows to fight, tries to stay on offensive amid scandal

MIAMI (AP) — The mere whiff of a scandal once unraveled political careers with stunning speed. Not anymore.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Gaetz vows to fight, tries to stay on offensive amid scandal

MIAMI (AP) — The mere whiff of a scandal once unraveled political careers with stunning speed. Not anymore.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Gaetz vows to fight, tries to stay on offensive amid scandal

MIAMI (AP) — The mere whiff of a scandal once unraveled political careers with stunning speed. Not anymore.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Border crossings strain resources in Rio Grande Valley

HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — Elmer Maldonado spent a week in immigration custody with his 1-year-old son after crossing the Rio Grande through Texas to request asylum. One night, the Honduran father and son slept on the dirt under a bridge shivering from the cold temperatures at an intake site where …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Border crossings strain resources in Rio Grande Valley

HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — Elmer Maldonado spent a week in immigration custody with his 1-year-old son after crossing the Rio Grande through Texas to request asylum. One night, the Honduran father and son slept on the dirt under a bridge shivering from the cold temperatures at an intake site where …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Mysterious new system at border keeps migrants guessing

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — After hearing rumors that Central American families with younger children were being allowed into the U.S., Irma Paz left Honduras with her husband and two kids on a nearly two-month journey to the banks of the Rio Grande.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Border crossings strain resources in Rio Grande Valley

HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — Elmer Maldonado spent a week in immigration custody with his 1-year-old son after crossing the Rio Grande through Texas to request asylum. One night, the Honduran father and son slept on the dirt under a bridge shivering from the cold temperatures at an intake site where …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Mysterious new system at border keeps migrants guessing

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — After hearing rumors that Central American families with younger children were being allowed into the U.S., Irma Paz left Honduras with her husband and two kids on a nearly two-month journey to the banks of the Rio Grande.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Mysterious new system at border keeps migrants guessing

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — After hearing rumors that Central American families with younger children were being allowed into the U.S., Irma Paz left Honduras with her husband and two kids on a nearly two-month journey to the banks of the Rio Grande.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Mysterious new system at border keeps migrants guessing

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — After hearing rumors that Central American families with younger children were being allowed into the U.S., Irma Paz left Honduras with her husband and two kids on a nearly two-month journey to the banks of the Rio Grande.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Emergency sites for migrant children raising safety concerns

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government has stopped taking immigrant teenagers to a converted camp for oil field workers in West Texas as it faces questions about the safety of emergency sites it is quickly setting up to hold children crossing the southern border.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Emergency sites for migrant children raising safety concerns

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government has stopped taking immigrant teenagers to a converted camp for oil field workers in West Texas as it faces questions about the safety of emergency sites it is quickly setting up to hold children crossing the southern border.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Emergency sites for migrant children raising safety concerns

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government has stopped taking immigrant teenagers to a converted camp for oil field workers in West Texas as it faces questions about the safety of emergency sites it is quickly setting up to hold children crossing the southern border.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Emergency sites for migrant children raising safety concerns

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government has stopped taking immigrant teenagers to a converted camp for oil field workers in West Texas as it faces questions about the safety of emergency sites it is quickly setting up to hold children crossing the southern border.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Officials: Evidence of UK virus strain found in Florida man

MIAMI (AP) — Florida health authorities late Thursday reported finding evidence of the latest U.S. case of the new and apparently more contagious coronavirus strain first seen in England, saying it was detected in a man with no recent travel history.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Officials: Evidence of UK virus strain found in Florida man

MIAMI (AP) — Florida health authorities late Thursday reported finding evidence of the latest U.S. case of the new and apparently more contagious coronavirus strain first seen in England, saying it was detected in a man with no recent travel history.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Officials: Evidence of UK virus strain found in Florida man

MIAMI (AP) — Florida health authorities late Thursday reported finding evidence of the latest U.S. case of the new and apparently more contagious coronavirus strain first seen in England, saying it was detected in a man with no recent travel history.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Officials: Evidence of UK virus strain found in Florida man

MIAMI (AP) — Florida health authorities late Thursday reported finding evidence of the latest U.S. case of the new and apparently more contagious coronavirus strain first seen in England, saying it was detected in a man with no recent travel history.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Florida sees highest COVID-19 daily caseload jump ever

MIAMI (AP) — Health authorities reported the highest daily jump in COVID-19 cases ever detected in Florida on Thursday as the state known for attracting retirees grapples with overwhelming demand for the new vaccine among seniors.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Gloria Estefan reveals she caught COVID-19, is now recovered

MIAMI (AP) — Singer and businesswoman Gloria Estefan said on Wednesday that she spent much of November in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19, days after dining outdoors at a Miami-area restaurant.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Gloria Estefan reveals she caught COVID-19, is now recovered

MIAMI (AP) — Singer and businesswoman Gloria Estefan said on Wednesday that she spent much of November in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19, days after dining outdoors at a Miami-area restaurant.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Gloria Estefan reveals she caught COVID-19, is now recovered

MIAMI (AP) — Singer and businesswoman Gloria Estefan said on Wednesday that she spent much of November in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19, days after dining outdoors at a Miami-area restaurant.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Gloria Estefan reveals she caught COVID-19, is now recovered

MIAMI (AP) — Singer and businesswoman Gloria Estefan said on Wednesday that she spent much of November in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19, days after dining outdoors at a Miami-area restaurant.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Confounding Democrats, Trump makes inroads with Latinos

President Donald Trump and his Republican allies made significant inroads with Latino voters in Tuesday’s election, alarming some Democrats who warned that immigration politics alone was not enough to hold their edge with the nation’s largest minority group.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

With salsa, caravans, Cubans make last push to reelect Trump

MIAMI (AP) — On the spur of the moment, a singer in a Cuban salsa band had an idea for a lyric to please fellow Trump supporters at a Miami birthday party.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Puerto Rico, unable to vote, becomes crucial to US election

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The campaigns of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are rallying people in a place where U.S. citizens cannot cast ballots but have the ear of hundreds of thousands of potential voters in the battleground state of Florida.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Puerto Rico, unable to vote, becomes crucial to US election

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The campaigns of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are rallying people in a place where U.S. citizens cannot cast ballots but have the ear of hundreds of thousands of potential voters in the battleground state of Florida.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Pence rallies Hispanics with Trump's anti-socialist record

MIAMI (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Florida on Thursday to rally Hispanic voters by highlighting President Donald Trump's record opposing socialist leaders across Latin America.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Jamaicans in Florida energized by Harris on 2020 ticket

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump and Joe Biden are entering the final stretch of the campaign in a fierce battle for Latino voters who could sway the results in Florida and determine who wins the White House.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Jamaicans in Florida energized by Harris on 2020 ticket

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump and Joe Biden are entering the final stretch of the campaign in a fierce battle for Latino voters who could sway the results in Florida and determine who wins the White House.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Florida docking plan in the works for ill-fated cruise ships

MIAMI (AP) — Passengers from an ill-fated South American cruise are eager to disembark once they reach Florida, but Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state's health care resources are already stretched too thin to take on the ships' coronavirus caseload. The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that the decision would …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Florida docking plan in the works for ill-fated cruise ships

MIAMI (AP) — Passengers from an ill-fated South American cruise are anxious to disembark once they reach Florida, but Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state's health care resources are already stretched too thin to take on another ship's coronavirus caseload. The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that the decision would …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Florida to set up more checkpoints to quarantine travelers

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida is working to set up more highway checkpoints to deter travelers mostly from New York from arriving in the state, and further spread the new coronavirus.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Stranded cruise ship passengers describe chaotic flight home

ATLANTA (AP) — On a chaotic flight home, some passengers who had been stranded for days aboard a cruise ship after being exposed to the coronavirus suffered breathing problems, many coughed and several fainted with no food or medical personnel provided, travelers said Friday.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Quarantined cruise passengers arrive from France in Atlanta

ATLANTA (AP) — A jet carrying 359 people including hundreds of American and Canadian cruise ship passengers home from France landed at Atlanta’s international airport on Friday as emergency responders prepared to screen them for the coronavirus, federal officials said.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

US census faces challenges counting small, poor Latino towns

GUADALUPE, Ariz. (AP) — The two white-washed, mission-style churches and old, wooden homes in this town of mostly Latinos and Native Americans seem misplaced near luxury apartments in Phoenix and a suburb surrounding it.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

US census faces challenges counting small, poor Latino towns

GUADALUPE, Ariz. (AP) — The two white-washed, mission-style churches and old, wooden homes in this town of mostly Latinos and Native Americans seem misplaced near luxury apartments in Phoenix and a suburb surrounding it.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Florida could be knockout punch for Sanders' 2020 campaign

MIAMI (AP) — Florida has never been known as a place of stability, especially in its politics.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Florida could be knockout punch for Sanders' 2020 campaign

MIAMI (AP) — Florida has never been known as a place of stability, especially in its politics.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Walt Disney World to close theme parks through end of month

MIAMI (AP) — Theme parks at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Disneyland Paris Resort will be closing through the end of the month, starting at the close of business Sunday, the Walt Disney Company announced.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Florida: 2 dead in the state who tested COVID-19 positive

MIAMI (AP) — Florida health officials said late Friday that two people who tested positive for the new coronavirus have died in the state.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Mexico loss of 2nd in charge won't change drug war

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS AGO