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Jerry West becomes first three-time inductee as Carter and Billups enter basketball's Hall of Fame
Read full article: Jerry West becomes first three-time inductee as Carter and Billups enter basketball's Hall of FameJerry West has made history by becoming the first three-time inductee to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
As virus spreads, Kansas hospital runs out of staff
Read full article: As virus spreads, Kansas hospital runs out of staffThe hospital is full, but diverting patients isn’t an option because surrounding medical centers are overwhelmed. “I’m it,” Lewallen said shortly after begging the hospital laundry staff to start washing his scrubs because he had run out of clean ones. And there are few larger medical centers to send its sickest patients with the rest of the region also overrun by the virus. The La Crosse hospital doesn’t have a ventilator and the oxygen it provided wasn’t sufficient with the patient's “chest full of COVID." Lewallen, the radiology technician, acknowledges it might get worse but said everyone is working hard from the kitchen and laundry staff to the nurses.
Florida man fires AR-15 warning shot at US Census worker, deputies say
Read full article: Florida man fires AR-15 warning shot at US Census worker, deputies sayAccording to the report, the Census worker was wearing a lanyard that identified himself as an employee with the U.S. Census Bureau and was driving a vehicle that also identified him as such. Neighbors told authorities even from across the street they could clearly see the man’s credentials and heard him identify himself as a U.S. Census worker. She told deputies she started honking the horn to warn her husband about the rifle being pointed at him. He told deputies he informed the man he was trespassing and even though he heard him say he was a “government employee” that did not give him the right to trespass. He also denied firing his weapon while the Census worker was walking away, saying he did it only to discharge the firearm after he left.