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FALL RIVER — Police are looking for the gunman or gunmen who shot two people to death and injured a third late Tuesday afternoon near Griffin Park. Two victims — a 29-year-old Fall River man and a 14-year-old juvenile male — were rushed to Saint Annes Hospital and Charlton Memorial Hospital respectively, where they were declared dead, according to Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinns Office. The third male shooting victim, 19, of Fall River, was transported to Saint Ann...

St. Joseph Campus discharges final COVID patient, shifts to center for outpatient & ambulatory care WKBW and last updated 2021-05-18 17:04:57-04 CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WKBW) — Catholic Health announced Sisters of Charity Hospital St. Joseph Campus discharged its final COVID patient Tuesday. In March plans were announced to redevelop the hospital, the areas first and only dedicated COVID-19 treatment facility, into a center for outpatient and ambulatory care. "Today, the hospital begins a new ...

By SANDRA TAN | The Buffalo News, N.Y. | Published: January 18, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. BUFFALO, N.Y. (Tribune News Service) — The lifesaving Pfizer vaccine moving through Erie County Medical Center came in a purple-topped vial barely taller than a thumbnail. By the time a single dose of i...

Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black womans death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavi...

The other two are operations and logistics teams. “This planning coalition needs to be based on data, information, census data, disease prevalence, co-morbidities, those most vulnerable among the population of citizens throughout the five counties,” Mark A. Sullivan, CEO of Catholic Health System, said Wednesday. “So the regional planning group will need to be focusing on that, and that group will be underway shortly,” Sullivan said. The five counties in the Western New York...