Kira Anglen, registered nurse, Oak Grove To the editor: The opioid crisis began long before many of us were aware of it. It began in 1996 with the marketing of OxyContin by Purdue Pharma and from there skyrocketed from heroin, to the now deadly Fentanyl.
Given the latest surge in COVID-19 cases — thanks to omicron subvariant BA.5, deemed the most transmissible yet — and the relatively new threat posed by monkeypox, which has been spreading globally since May, one might expect the public health establishment to be asking for heightened precautions or at least vigilance.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Steven Marsh never thought he would see the day his church in Laguna Woods, California — a town of 16,500 populated largely by retirees — would be spending $20,000 a month for security.
Tommy Muck has been a mainstay for the Kansas City Mavericks the past two seasons. And the 26-year-old defenseman believes this is going to be a breakthrough season for the ECHL franchise as it hopes to return to the playoffs for the first time since the 2018-19 season.
KANSAS CITY — Jim Lynch, the Lima, Ohio, native who had legendary football careers with the Kansas City Chiefs and Notre Dame, has died at age 76. Lynch starred at Lima Central Catholic, where he graduated in 1963 and was third-team Class AA All-Ohio.
While most of the 35 Truman High School Youth Football Camp participants visit on the sidelines, throw a football around or get a drink of water, Truman juniors Logan Treloar and Carlos Carbajal are getting ready to help first-year head coach Robert Stough with the last day of the successful camp.
Four years ago, when Karen Giuliano went to a Boston hospital for hip-replacement surgery, she was given a pale-pink bucket of toiletries issued to patients in many hospitals. Inside were tissues, bar soap, deodorant, toothpaste, and, without a doubt, the worst toothbrush she’d ever seen.
Relationships are great when the two of you are in the same emotional place, but that doesn’t always happen. The cause can be biochemical, work may be getting in the way, or your own emotions may be so powerful that they keep you from seeing your partner’s. Here are five ways to get back into balance again.
“The Daughter of Doctor Moreau” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; Del Ray (306 pages, $28) Is there a contemporary writer more chameleonic than Silvia Moreno-Garcia? Her breakout novel, the New York Timesbestselling “Mexican Gothic,” is a gothic horror tale set in 1950s Mexico; last year’s “Velvet Was the Night,” is a 1970s noir. Her previous work skips genres and times with similar fluidity.