SARASOTA — When the number of COVID-19 cases spiked locally and statewide last month, doctors said a rise in hospitalizations would likely fol…
AUSTIN, Texas — The amount of coronavirus testing in Texas has decreased substantially in recent weeks, just as the rate of positive cases has…
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has won another legal victory defending his COVID-19 executive orders, this time when a judge r…
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida's coronavirus death toll increased Tuesday by 277 victims, the highest number reported during the pandemic.
It took six months for the world to reach 10 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double.
Wyoming state Sen. Liisa Anselmi-Dalton worried that a customer could get the coronavirus in her Old Chicago Pizza and Tap Room franchise in R…
LOS ANGELES — With a backlog of coronavirus test results now flowing into a state database, California reported 13,149 coronavirus cases on Mo…
NEW YORK (AP) — Riverdale Nursing Home in the Bronx appears, on paper, to have escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, with an official…
CHICAGO — Jocelyn Lopez, an incoming senior at Round Lake High School, usually gets an early start on back-to-school shopping. This year, she'…
I've hit my COVID-19 wall.
Coronavirus cases are trending downward in Charlotte County in the past 5-10 days, but it’s too soon to know if infections are really dropping…
MOSCOW — Russia on Tuesday became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, a move that was met with international skepticism and un…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hopes that talks on a huge COVID-19 relief deal would generate an agreement soon are fizzling, with both the Trump administr…
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — People in China are back to buying German luxury cars. Europe's assembly lines are accelerating. Now the global econ…
Sarasota County Elections Supervisor Ron Turner announced several temporary polling place changes for the Tuesday, Aug. 18 primary election. T…
Here are the latest coronavirus (COVID-19) statistics available for Florida and our area counties, as of 11:30 a.m. Aug. 11. The next update …
Shares in a Seattle biotech firm shot up 80% Monday after a preliminary trial suggested a new drug could boost survival rates for patients wit…
By many measures, including impact on the economy, the pandemic has been devastating. But for job hunters, the prospects looked a lot worse du…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand's largest city was placed in lockdown after the country's coronavirus-free status ended after more than …
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RICHMOND, Virginia — Governors and state labor department officials were scrambling Monday to determine whether they could implement President…
WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not about to blink.
WASHINGTON — That $400 a week in additional COVID-19 unemployment benefits President Donald Trump announced Saturday? Cash-strapped states hav…
State and local government officials across the U.S. have been on edge for months about how to keep basic services running while covering risi…
Both birthday wishes and well-wishes are in order for actor Antonio Banderas, who revealed on Monday — his 60th birthday — that he has tested …
It has been seven years since the central air conditioning system worked at the New York City middle school where Lisa Fitzgerald O’Connor tea…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida reported the lowest number of new COVID-19 cases since June 23.