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OMAHA, Nebraska – Kent McGuire, safety and health coordinator at The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Science, said falls are often caused by slips or trips. These falls can be especially dangerous for older people, resulting frequently in breaks, including to hips.

(Editor’s note: The following is written information provided by Kathy Travis, a Shop With A Cop participant.) Turn on the news, listen to the radio, or open up social media and you’ll know that it’s a hard time to be a first responder, but that’s not stopping our local first responders from doing so many incredible things for this incredible community. Nurses are going the extra mile for their patients to make sure that every person gets quality medical care in the middle of a pandemic.

RICHMOND – Area nursing homes recorded dozens of COVID-19 cases and several deaths, based on ProPublica reporting. “This is data the nursing home itself is reporting to the federal government,” ProPublica Deputy Managing Editor Charles Ornstein stated Monday by email.

RICHMOND – For those who have lived through – • The Cold War, while learning to hide under classroom desks as protection against atomic bombs; • The Civil Rights Movement with protests, beatings and murders, and the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.; • The Vietnam War, protests and beatings, fear of being drafted, Richard Nixon’s disgrace and the humiliating desertion of the nation’s Vietnamese allies; • The Iranian hostage crisis and Arab oil embargo; • AIDS and dread about how the disease could spread, with even schoolchildren being villainized and ostracized, • Sept. 11, 2001, the longest war in U.S.

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations reminds the public the state’s minimum wage rate will rise to $10.30 per hour, effective Friday. Pursuant to Proposition B – which a majority of Missouri voters approved Nov.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Scores of shoppers browsed and bought at the annual Mistletoe Market at the Montgomery Event Venue, many having no idea how much work goes into the “simple” crafts on display at some of the tables.

While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

SOURCES: State, Ray and Clay health departments, Johns Hopkins University J.C. VENTIMIGLIA | Staff NUMBERS in this graphic are “accumulated.” That means the death and case totals listed for this week include not just deaths over the past several days, but all deaths since the virus started in each venue..

LIBERTY – The Infectious Diseases Society of America, or IDSA, named Raghu Adiga, M.D., among 181 distinguished physicians from around the world as a society fellow. Adiga is Liberty Hospital’s chief medical officer and is one of the region’s leading infectious disease specialists.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs SAFE, or Substance Abuse Free Environments, Coalition seeks Community Champion awards program nominations. The program is designed to educate the community about the importance of 40 developmental assets in a child’s experience to assure the child thrives throughout life.