TANGIER ISLAND, Virginia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – James “Ooker” Eskridge’s family – like those of many of his neighbors –...
Monthly Archives: April 2022
The number of opioid-related overdose deaths in Vermont increased by 33% in 2021 to a record number of 210 fatalities,...
A weekend fire gutted a Home Depot store in the San Francisco Bay Area, sending up a huge plume of...
A man prosecutors said was a leader of a conspiracy that involved bribing 911 operators, hospital workers, and police officers...
Ten families are suing CSX Transportation for up to $450 million over flooding that killed 20 people in Tennessee last...
The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether Louisiana’s health and environmental agencies discriminated against Black residents in connection with air...
Eleven people were injured in a “major collision” the night of April 8 in Austin, Texas, involving pedestrians and two...
A Louisiana high school senior who lost her best friend in a head-on collision is on a mission to improve...
Confronting the pandemic’s lasting shadow, President Joe Biden on April 5 ordered a new national research push on long COVID,...
A judge has ordered the demolition of the deteriorating Packard auto plant in Detroit, finding that it had become a...