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Twin beams of light representing the World Trade Center towers won’t be beamed into the sky during this year’s memorial of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City.
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|By ABC12 News Staff
Macomb County has Michigan’s highest rate of coronavirus transmission, according to state officials.
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|By Associated Press
On average, the United States is still seeing about 1,000 deaths a day from the virus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The country has had more than 5 million confirmed cases and more than 167,000 deaths over the course of the pandemic.
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|By Associated Press
Friday’s statement by Canada’s Public Safety Minister Bill Blair came a day after Mexico announced a similar measure for its border with the United States.
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|By ABC12 News Staff
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the MI Mask Aid program on Friday in partnership with Ford Motor Company and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Carlos Muniz was set to marry his fiancee, Grace Leimann, last month, but got sick and was hospitalized with COVID-19.
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President Donald Trump is attacking Joe Biden for calling on governors to mandate all Americans wear masks.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By Associated Press
Joe Biden is calling for a nationwide protective mask mandate over the next three months.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By Associated Press
The NCAA will not conduct fall championship events — a move that does not affect major college football — because not enough schools are competing in sports such as men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By Gray News staff
A South Carolina woman is searching for answers as to why her grandmother’s death certificate lists COVID-19 complications as a cause of death, when she says her grandmother was never tested for the virus and never showed any symptoms.
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Updated: 19 hours ago
|By ABC12 News Staff
The governor will take part in a live press conference at 11 a.m. from Lansing with Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist and Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, who is Michigan’s chief medical executive.
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|By ABC12 News Staff
McLaren Bay Region is updating its visitor policy to allow only “necessary” people in the hospital to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By Cheri Hardmon
Those new restrictions are in place at Central Michigan University to decrease the possible spread of COVID-19.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By Associated Press
The Justice Department has seized millions of dollars from cryptocurrency accounts used by militant organizations based abroad, including the Islamic State group and al-Qaida.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By Associated Press
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday said he’s dropping a lawsuit against the city of Atlanta in a dispute over the city’s requirement to wear masks in public and other restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By ABC12 News Staff
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported 1,121 new cases of coronavirus statewide Thursday.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 1:05 PM EDT
|By Gray News staff
All passengers over the age of 2 must wear a mask. There are no exceptions.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 12:11 PM EDT
|By Gray News staff
Health officials tested people who came in contact with the product, and all results were negative. Officials did not say the brand of the chicken product.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 11:01 AM EDT
|By ABC12 News Staff
Trump decided to have Michigan pick up 25% of the cost beginning Aug. 21.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 10:04 AM EDT
Halloween-specific candies and packaging are already available in some grocery stores in the U.S.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 8:42 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
AMC Theatres, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, will reopen in the U.S. on Aug. 20 with retro ticket prices of 15 cents per movie.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 8:30 PM EDT
|By Associated Press and Hailey Tucker
The move came one day after the Big Ten and Pac-12 announced they would not be participating this fall.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:11 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The White House’s top negotiator is trying to revive stalled talks over coronavirus aid.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:02 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
These drugs are believed to last for a month or more and could give quick, temporary immunity to people at high risk of infection, such as health workers and housemates of someone with COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 3:46 PM EDT
|By ABC12 News Staff
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported 511 new cases of coronavirus statewide Wednesday, increasing the total to 89,271.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 3:20 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The Treasury Department says the U.S. budget deficit climbed to $2.81 trillion in the first 10 months of the budget year.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 1:27 PM EDT
Millions of Americans are expected to vote by mail this fall as the nation grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:21 AM EDT
|By staff
The vaccine is still in clinical trials and has not been approved by the FDA but is already being manufactured, so if it is approved, it can be rolled out quickly.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:20 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
Health authorities in New Zealand were scrambling Wednesday to trace the source of a new outbreak of the coronavirus as the nation’s largest city went back into lockdown.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:20 AM EDT
During a time when many businesses are struggling to stay afloat, the last remaining Blockbuster store in Bend, Oregon, is defying the odds.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:07 AM EDT
A 17-year-old hostess at Chili’s was reportedly attacked by a group of more than 11 women after she told them they could not all sit together, per the restaurant’s COVID-19 social distancing policies.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 7:49 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The move comes six day after the conference that includes historic programs such as Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska and Penn State had released a revised conference-only schedule that it hoped would help it navigate a fall season with potential COVID-19 disruptions.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 6:47 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide topped 20 million, more than half of them from the United States, India and Brazil.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 5:52 PM EDT
|By Cheri Hardmon
The webinar will take place Wednesday at 5:30 pm. You can visit the Saginaw County Health Department for more information.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 4:54 PM EDT
|By Mark Bullion
Corunna Public Schools this past weekend announced its official return to school plans. Unlike other districts, administrators are requiring students K-12 to wear a mask.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 3:43 PM EDT
|By ABC12 News Staff
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported 796 new cases of coronavirus statewide Tuesday, increasing the total to 88,756.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 3:38 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Putin emphasized that the vaccine underwent the necessary tests and has proven efficient, offering a lasting immunity from the coronavirus. However, scientists at home and abroad have been sounding the alarm that the rush to start using the vaccine before Phase 3 trials could backfire.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 3:33 PM EDT
|By AARON MORRISON and ASHRAF KHALIL
A national commemoration of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington is being reconfigured to comply with coronavirus protocols in the District of Columbia.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 3:11 PM EDT
|By Gray News staff
In the study, scientists were looking for the masks that best contain the droplets that are created when people speak.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 3:05 PM EDT
|By ABC12 News Staff
The Big Ten Conference officially announced Tuesday afternoon that the football season and all other sports have been canceled for this fall.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 2:23 PM EDT
|By ABC12 News Staff
John Duncan III recently succumbed to his injuries, according to a Facebook post from Quality Dairy.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 1:57 PM EDT
|By CNN Staff
Digital eye strain was an issue before COVID-19, but now it’s a bigger one, with some kids spending more time on their devices.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 1:29 PM EDT
|By ABC12 News Staff
The Saginaw County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to place a 0.48-mill request on the Nov. 3 ballot for the Saginaw County Health Department.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 11:29 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
Anxious parents around the country are looking to schools that have already opened for signs of how it might go.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 7:04 AM EDT
|By NICK PERRY
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first reported cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 4:28 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
With more than 60 million beneficiaries, Social Security is funded by a 12.4% payroll tax evenly divided between employees and employers. Deferral could mean that up to $100 billion in payments would be delayed.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 9:10 PM EDT
|By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Governors and state labor department officials around the country are scrambling to figure out if it is feasible to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order to partially extend enhanced unemployment insurance for millions of Americans struggling to find work in the pandemic-scarred economy.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 8:11 PM EDT
|By MICHELLE R. SMITH and LAUREN WEBER
Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases burned out, dozens of state and local public health officials around the country have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns and infection data have become.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 7:45 PM EDT
|By Associated Press and LISA MASCARO
With Republicans again balking at big government bailouts, Democratic leaders are holding firm. They are using their leverage to force President Donald Trump into a politically risky standoff over help for millions of Americans.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 7:22 PM EDT
|By ABC12 News Staff
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer again extended coronavirus safety measures for grocery stores, pharmacies and nursing homes in Michigan.