WHEELING -- A second person has died of COVID-19 in Ohio County, health officials announced Saturday. The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department did not identify the victim, but said the person had been hospitalized at the time of death. It's the first coronavirus fatality in the county ...
By MIKE STOBBE and NICKY FORSTERyesterday NEW YORK (AP) — A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data on the pandemic. The number of deaths per day from the virus had been falling for months, and ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of U.S. Marines at two bases on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa have been infected with the coronavirus in what is feared to be a massive outbreak, Okinawa's governor said Saturday, demanding an adequate explanation from the ...
WHEELING — Officials in the city of Wheeling are self quarantining while awaiting results of COVID-19 tests after Vice Mayor Chad Thalman tested positive for the coronavirus, and the future of upcoming public meetings in the city has been left uncertain. In light of the recent surge in ...
WHEELING — The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston received nearly $2 million in federal Paycheck Protection Program loans to help pay its administrative staff and every active priest working in West Virginia during the coronavirus pandemic. The request was not unusual as numerous dioceses across the country, including those in Youngstown, Columbus and Pittsburgh each received PPP loans between $2 million and $5 million when the program was rolled out in April, according to public records. In all, Roman Catholic dioceses across the United States received an estimated $1.4 billion in ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups. The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data ...
