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Volleyball loses double-header against BGSU in battle for first

Jimmy Oswald Sports Reporter February 27, 2021

The battle for first place in Mid-American Conference between Bowling Green State University and Kent State lived up to the hype.But for the Kent State volleyball team, the double-header ended in heartbreak. KSU...

Almost a third of people with 'mild' Covid-19 still battle symptoms months later, study find

Almost a third of people with ‘mild’ Covid-19 still battle symptoms months later, study finds

(CNN) -- It's been almost a year since Michael Reagan, 50, came down with Covid-19."I woke up first thing in the morning and I felt really hot and out of breath," he said, recalling the morning of March...

Photo courtesy of Nastasha Bastrakov.

Kwench Juice Cafe opens in downtown Kent

Morgan McGrath Reporter February 19, 2021

COVID-19 has heavily impacted establishments in downtown Kent and beyond. But while some shops have shut their doors for good, others have opened their doors for the very first time. Kwench Juice Cafe,...

Ohio governor, first lady, receive 1st COVID-19 vaccine shot

Andrew Welsh-Huggins, AP February 2, 2021

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. Mike DeWine and his wife, Fran DeWine, received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine Tuesday in a procedure streamed live.The couple were eligible because both are older...

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga at the Grammy Awards in 2015

Tony Bennett reveals he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s

Originally Published: 01 FEB 21 09:38 ET Updated: 01 FEB 21 09:47 ET By Marianne Garvey, CNN February 1, 2021

  (CNN) -- Tony Bennett and his family are opening up about the singer being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.The legendary singer, who is 94, began showing symptoms of the disease in 2015, according...

Covid numbers lowering

Bloomberg January 27, 2021

A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccination at a drive-thru clinic at the Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds in Robstown, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. Hundreds...

Fracking Site

PAUL RATJE, 27 Jan. 21 January 27, 2021

Equipment at a fracking well is pictured at Capitan Energy on May 7, 2020 in Culberson County, Texas. - For oil and gas producers in the world's largest oil field, straddling the border between Texas and...

Coronavirus testing

Bloomberg January 24, 2021

A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) places a Covid-19 swab test into a vial at a United Airlines testing sire inside San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco,...

FDA gives approval for syringes to extract an extra dose from vials of the Covid-19 vaccine

PATRICK T. FALLON January 23, 2021

Syringes wand vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be administered to front-line health care workers under an emergency use authorization at a drive up vaccination site from Renown...

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2020 file photo, provided by the LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner Elizabeth "Liz" Napoles, right, works alongside with National Guardsmen who are helping to process the COVID-19 deaths to be placed into temporary storage at LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner Office in Los Angeles. California reported 669 COVID-19 deaths, the second-highest daily death count, on Saturday, Jan. 16, and the nation's most populous county announced it had detected its first case of a more transmissible strain of the coronavirus. Public health authorities in Los Angeles County confirmed its first case of the variant of COVID-19 first detected in the United Kingdom. It was identified in a man who recently spent time in the county. The man has traveled to Oregon, where he is isolating. (LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner via AP, File)

US approaches 400,000 coronavirus deaths

(CNN) -- As the US approaches 400,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, new cases have been trending down but multiple states are reporting cases of new variants of the virus.The US recorded 1.5 million...

Some New York City public schools to resume in-person learning

Spencer Platt November 29, 2020

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 18: A school bus drives down a street in Brooklyn on November 18, 2020 in New York City. Public schools in New York City, the largest school district in the nation, will close...

Ruoming Jin, a professor in the Department of Computer Sciences.

Kent State professors use cellphone data to study behavior and mental health during pandemic

Kandra Hill Reporter October 27, 2020

Two Kent State professors have partnered in a research effort that will track participants’ cell phone data to study behavior of college students and their mental health during the pandemic. Kent State...

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