Kate Bender News Today

Smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles away is still a health threat, contributing to nearly 16,000 deaths a year, according to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research analysis. Laura Kate Bender, who leads the Healthy Air campaign for the American Lung Association, joins John Yang to discuss what makes wildfire smoke so hazardous and how people can protect themselves.

For more than a week this May, an archeological dig in rural Labette County has focused on a field to unearth new clues to a 150-year-old plus mystery.

The American Lung Association survey found that 72% of respondents would support the Environmental Protection Agency implementing stronger limits on new trucks.

P Deliss/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Nearly three million asthma attacks in children could be prevented by 2050 if the United States transitioned to electric vehicles and clean power, according to a new report published Wednesday.Researchers from the American Lung Association (ALA) say these goals would also avert millions of other respiratory symptoms and save hundreds of infant lives over the next two-and-a-half decades."That [zero-emission] future, its really important for lung health, bot...

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PITTSBURG, Ks - In the early 1870s, a family known as the Benders, or more infamously as the Bloody Benders, perpetrated a reign of terror in Cherryvale, Kansas, allegedly murdering

A number of failures necessitated the release of tons of excess pollution into the air.

The brief dances encompassed original choreography and reimagined classic works.

Television crime shows make serial killers a common theme, though such crimes are statistically rare.

Items of interest from past issues of Fulton newspapers.