Sprouts officials say masks are required to enter the store -- they pressed charges against one member of the group for trespassing.
France registered 26,788 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, down sharply from the 2021 high of 31,519 recorded last week Wednesday, but admissions to intensive care hit a 2021 high, with increasing numbers of younger patients. The total number of people in hospital with COVID-19 fell slightly to just over 25,000 on Wednesday, but the number of patients in intensive care rose by another 51 to 3,637, a new 2021 high and the highest since the end of November. The government has said that bringing down the number of people with COVID-19 in intensive care below 3,000 is one of the preconditions for easing the coronavirus curfew.
A Canadian man who was found unconscious and tethered to 185 pounds (84 kilograms) of marijuana in the Detroit River was sentenced Wednesday to about six years in a U.S. prison. The capture of Glen Mousseau last June capped a strange few weeks in his dealings with U.S. law enforcement. “The international nature of the smuggling here is noteworthy and in many ways more alarming than the run-of-the-mill drug distribution conspiracy,” U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland said.
Mar. 3—DETROIT — That background noise at Pistons games won't just be recorded cheering and booing. For the first time since the pandemic began last March, the Pistons will begin selling general-admission tickets to home games at Little Caesars Arena. The first game available will be Wednesday, March 17 against the Toronto Raptors. Using local and state guidelines, the Pistons will welcome up ...
Mar. 3—NORTHUMBERLAND — A fire ripped through the attic and second floor of a two-story residential house in the 300 block of Orange Street on Tuesday night. Firefighters from Northumberland and surrounding areas responded to the fire between 9:30 and 10 p.m. According to public 911 radio communications, firefighters accessed fire hydrants in the area. Flames were visible outside the home when ...
Mar. 3—LAKELAND, Fla. — Tigers manager AJ Hinch said it earlier camp, for some young players, their development might be better served keeping them in the big leagues rather than sending them back to Triple A. Clearly, he thinks 22-year-old Isaac Paredes fits that description. "He can play," Hinch said Wednesday morning. "I'm not certain Triple A is the best for his development. I think with ...
Mar. 3—NORTHUMBERLAND — The seven officers of the Northumberland Borough Police Department Union have a new contract with a 3 percent increase. At Tuesday night's public meeting, borough council members unanimously accepted the five-year collective bargaining agreement for five full-time and two part-time officers. The police budget is $426,516 for 2021. "I appreciate the professionalism when ...
Mar. 3—DETROIT — Most years, even the down years, scoring Tigers Opening Day tickets is like winning the lottery. This year, with all the COVID-19 uncertainty, tickets have been more accessible since they went on sale back earlier in the winter. The luck element, this time, will be if you get to actually use the tickets you purchased. When the regular season starts four weeks from Thursday, ...
Jason Stephens, founder of Stephens Law, a Fort Worth law firm focusing exclusively on serious personal injury and wrongful death claims, received multiple professional recognitions from his peers and the media in 2020.
Mar. 3—A homeless man is jailed on $100,000 cash bail, charged with aggravated assault after city police said he stabbed a 72-year old man in the back because he was "told to do it." Joesph Hornberger, 50, who has been staying around Shamokin, was arraigned in front of Shamokin District Judge John Gembic Tuesday morning and sent to Northumberland County Jail. Police said they received a call ...
Nationally renowned surgeon and women's cancers expert Leslie R. Boyd, MD, has been named director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center and within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at NYU Langone Health, effective March 1.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas Holdings, a Texas-based dine-in theater chain, said Wednesday that it has filed for bankruptcy due to financial woes during the pandemic. The company plans to find a buyer during its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which allows it to continue operating while its managers and advisers work on repaying creditors. “More importantly, it will position Alamo Drafthouse to return to growth and continue executing on its long-term strategic vision."
Mar. 3—Regional hospitals are awaiting word from the state on whether they'll receive the one-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and to whom it may be administered. The state is expected to get about 94,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine this week, according to a state Republican lawmaker, but the Department of Health and the governor's office wouldn't confirm such information on ...
Mar. 3—LEWISBURG — Buffalo Valley Recreation Authority's 6th Annual Gala is a virtual affair and tickets for the online Family Variety Show are on sale. The show begins at 7 p.m. March 6 via Zoom. Single show-only tickets are $25 and meal options are no longer available. The 2021 Virtual Gala Auction opens today. Items include vacations to Disney World and New York City along with local day ...
Mar. 3—The body pulled from the Susquehanna River on Saturday has been identified as Maverick Wilton, according to Northumberland County Coroner Jim Kelley. Kelley said dental X-rays were used in the identification process. The cause and manner of death are pending further testing following an autopsy performed by Dr. Samuel Land, of Forensic Pathology Associates in Allentown, Kelley said. The ...
A judge is ordering the state of Mississippi to pay $500,000 to a Black man who was wrongfully imprisoned more than 22 years and was tried six times in a quadruple murder case. Curtis Flowers was released from prison in December 2019, months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a district attorney had excluded Black jurors from his trials. Flowers had spent years on death row.
Wed. March. 3 Byron Allen Acquires Civil Rights-Era Biography ‘From Selma to Sorrow’ For Film Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group feature film division, Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, has announced it has acquired global media rights to the critically-acclaimed historic biography “From Selma To Sorrow: The Life And Death Of Viola Liuzzo.” “From Selma To Sorrow: […]
Amandeep Bhalla, M.D., board-certified and fellowship trained in orthopaedic spine surgery, has been named the medical director of the Spine Center at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center.
Mar. 3—With COVID-19 vaccinations on the rise and infection rates on the decline, Rochester Public Schools is gearing up to welcome all its secondary students back into the buildings for the first time in a full year. Secondary students are scheduled to return to in-person learning April 5, a goal that was reinforced at Tuesday's school board meeting. Superintendent Michael Muñoz said that by ...
Mar. 3—Stellantis NV will shell out profit-sharing checks of $8,010 before taxes, a 10% increase from last year after the United Auto Workers negotiated a richer formula in 2019 contract talks. The transatlantic automaker, the merger between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and French rival Groupe PSA, announced profit-sharing early Wednesday as part of full-year 2020 earnings for both companies, ...
When unusual Arctic weather hit Texas in early February, millions were without power, and the system came close to collapse, states Physicians for Civil Defense. Some resorted to burning furniture to keep from freezing.
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