SOUTH PHILADELPHIA - Authorities are investigating after they say a woman's body was found inside a plastic container wrapped in saran wrap Wednesday morning in South Philadelphia.The gruesome discovery was made on the 3000 block of Wharton Street just before 10 a.m.

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Great Big Backpack Build underway despite lower donations due to virus

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Volunteers spent their Thursday morning stuffing backpacks for a great cause. More than 12,000 backpacks filled with school supplies to be distributed to students in underserved areas.“It’s such a necessary thing. It’s unfortunate that schools aren’t able to provide, and families are in a tough spot this year.

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Marion County school board discusses changes for upcoming school year

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – The Marion County School Board met early Thursday to discuss changes that will be in place when the school year begins.The meeting came a day after the deadline for families to decide if their students would return to the classroom or choose one of the district’s distance learning options.For students who elect in-person instruction, there will be social distancing measures and face coverings will need to be worn in certain areas."When we can social distance appropriately, then masks don't need to be worn," Deputy Superintendent Mark Vianello said.

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Young patient caught coronavirus at party, spread it to grandfather who died, doctor says

DALLAS - Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, was caring for about 170 coronavirus patients as of Tuesday, and one tragic case produced a cautionary tale.Dr. Joseph Chang, chief medical officer at the hospital, told a local news outlet about a patient in her 20s who went to a party with friends and got COVID-19.READ MORE: Prince George’s County health worker killed by COVID-19 after requests to work from home were denied"Before she was symptomatic, she visited her 80-year-old grandparents and they got sick,” Chang told WFAA.The patient and her grandparents were admitted to the intensive care unit at Parkland, but the young woman didn’t know it because she was intubated and unconscious.

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Missing movies? Here are some of the big summer films that were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic

LOS ANGELES - As drive-in theaters are thriving across the United States, major cineplexes are announcing reopening delays yet again, prompting the moviegoing faithful in the United States to wonder when — and if — they’ll be able to see their beloved summer blockbusters at theaters this year.FOX 5 DC Entertainment Reporter Kevin McCarthy and FOX TV Stations’ Justin Sedgwick discuss some of the major, highly-anticipated movies film buffs were yearning to see this summer prior to the pandemic closing cinemas’ doors. RELATED: A New California: What’s in store for the movie theater industryKeep in mind that the release dates for these films are expected.

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Flagler Sheriff claims to lower crime while lowering use of force

FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said the use-of-force is anytime a deputy goes ‘hands on’ during an encounter in his agency has dropped while the crime rate has also fallen."If I recall correctly there were 28 incidents of use-of-force in 2016 under the former Sheriff," Staly said. "And last year we had 15, so that's down 38%.

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Florida Department of Health reports over 10,000 new coronavirus cases

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Florida Department of Health on Thursday reported 10,249new cases of COVID-19.The new cases bring the state’s overall total number of confirmed coronavirus cases since the virus was first detected in Florida to 389,868.The new cases halt Florida’s trend of having below 10,000 cases daily. Wednesday marked two days in a row where coronavirus cases didn’t exceed 10,000.[MORE: Study: Florida social interactions rose before virus spike]The state is now also releasing data about currently hospitalized coronavirus patients.

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Pennsylvania introduces gender-neutral driver license, ID card option

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania as of Thursday is offering driver licenses and identification cards with a gender-neutral designation for people who do not want to be identified as either male or female.The state Department of Transportation said that people can now choose that option in addition to the “male” or “female" designation.

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Police: Man charged in sexual assault of teen in Wilmington park

WILMINGTON, Del. - Police in Wilmington, Delaware have arrested and charged a man they say sexually assaulted a teenage girl in a park earlier this week.Nijir Lee, 22 has been charged with rape, robbery, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.Investigators say surveillance pictures showed Lee in Canby Park, where the assault occurred, and at a nearby convenience store wearing the same outfit. New Castle County police say the assault happened on Monday morning around 7 a.m. at the park near Banning and St.

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North Carolina man who hit $10M lottery jackpot charged with murder

LELAND, N.C. - A North Carolina man who won a $10 million lottery in 2017 has been charged with murder in the death of a woman who was found lifeless in a hotel room.Michael Todd Hill, 52, of Leland, was arrested Tuesday after the body of 23-year-old Keonna Graham was discovered the day before.READ MORE: Double murder suspect apprehended in North CarolinaHill, who won his fortune from an Ultimate Millions scratch-off ticket in August 2017, checked into the hotel alone on Sunday, according to a local NBC affiliate.

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Feds accuse ex-Philly congressman Michael 'Ozzie' Myers of stuffing ballots

PHILADELPHIA - A federal grand jury indicted a disgraced former Pennsylvania congressman, accusing the well-connected Philadelphia Democrat of election fraud during primary elections in 2014, 2015 and 2016.The indictment charges former U.S. Rep.

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76ers counting on healthy Embiid, Simmons for title push in Orlando

Joel Embiid #21, Josh Richardson #0, and Ben Simmons #25 of the Philadelphia 76ers react against the Los Angeles Clippers at the Wells Fargo Center on February 11, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 76ers defeated the Clippers 110-103.

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Atlantic City's Borgata begins soft-opening Thursday

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The Borgata casino began their soft-opening Thursday as they hosted an invitation-only event.The Borgata is the last of Atlantic City's nine casinos to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic and is expected to open to the public on July 26.The top-performing casino in Atlantic City, the Borgata was the only one that did not to immediately reopen on July 2, the first day New Jersey Gov.

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Utah sees virus surge – but not in county with mask order

SALT LAKE CITY - Utah is among the many U.S. states battling a surge in coronavirus cases, but officials said Wednesday the Salt Lake City area is bucking the trend after the county issued a mandate a month ago for people to wear masks.There's no statewide mask order in Republican-led Utah, and face coverings remain contentious, as seen at a recent public meeting that was abruptly ended when dozens of people without masks packed the room.After GOP Gov.

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Biden calls Trump the country's 'first' racist president

A file image shows former Vice President Joe Biden at the Hotel Du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo: Michael Brochstein / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Joe Biden said Wednesday that President Donald Trump was the country's “first” racist president.The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s comments came during a virtual town hall organized by the Service Employees International Union.

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Michigan convent sees 13 nuns die of coronavirus: 'It was very frightening'

LIVONIA, Mich. - Thirteen Roman Catholic nuns from the same Michigan convent died from the coronavirus in a deadly wave that claimed 12 in just one month.The nuns, ages 69 to 99, lived together across three floors at the Felician Sisters' convent in Livonia. They included teachers, an author and a secretary in the Vatican Secretariat of State, according to the Global Sisters Report, an outlet of the National Catholic Reporter publishing company."I first heard two aides had contracted the virus," Sister Mary Andrew Budinski, the superior of the convent, told Global Sisters Report.

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Police release video of deadly shooting in Grays Ferry, 4 suspects sought

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police are looking to identify three gunmen, as well as a passenger, they say were involved in a deadly shooting earlier this month in Grays Ferry.The shooting occurred on the 1200 block of South 24th Street around 7:20 p.m. back on July 3.Video shows a white 2016 to 2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo, occupied by at least four people, drive up to the victim as he was walking to a nearby corner store.The Jeep can be seen coming to a stop as a rear passenger emerges from the vehicle and opens fire.

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Héma-Québec’s study to find how far COVID-19 spread in Quebec

Public health experts have long predicted COVID-19 could have spread much further in Quebec than test results show, so Héma-Québec has looked into blood samples to find out. Dr. Marc Germain joins Global’s Laura Casella.

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This mom says virtual learning is not working for her son with Down syndrome. She has some ideas on how to flip the system.

in a Washington Post op-ed, said the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare deep inequities in our society, but particularly in access to quality education.She explained that distance learning for her son Julian, who recently finished fourth grade at a public school in Maryland, was a disaster.“It turned a happy, independent, and curious child into an anxious and withdrawn one, in large part because of the school’s failure to provide appropriate access to both academic and social-emotional learning or the necessary services and supports and modifications that are essential to his education,” she wrote.At Julian’s school, he received the Individualized Education Program, which is federally mandated for students with special needs.

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Sunny Leone, Canadian Bollywood star, talks defying critics and her homecoming

Sunny Leone has always walked between worlds.She was born in Sarnia, Ont., as the daughter of Indian immigrants, then moved to California and eventually started a career in adult films.

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What’s your motivation? Man loses 200 pounds to ride roller coaster

MASON, Ohio – An Ohio man is inspiring people around the world after dropping nearly 200 pounds in just 10 months.Jared Ream said he became motivated when Kings Island amusement park announced it was opening a brand new roller coaster called Orion.Ream, who once weighed 430 pounds, had to quit riding thrill rides seven years ago due to his size.

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Bald men are '40% more likely to end up in hospital with coronavirus', study claims

From being male to having an underlying health conditions, a number of factors are known to increase your risk of coronavirus.

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Mayor of Portland, Oregon, tear gassed by federal agents

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The mayor of Portland, Oregon, was tear gassed by the U.S.

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Osceola County pushes back start date for high school football

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – The start of several fall sports, including football, has been pushed back for public schools in Osceola County, officials announced Thursday.“The Osceola School District has joined other Central Florida school districts in the goal of providing opportunities for student-athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic through adjustments to the fall sports season calendars as follows, which are fluid based on the safety of student-athletes thus subject to change,” officials said in a news release.There will be no preseason contests, and high schools in Osceola County will not participate in the Florida High School Athletic Association’s State Series for football and volleyball. “The delay in our athletic schedules for fall sports

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Coast Guard rescues 3 boaters off Florida coast

CLEARWATER, Fla. – The U.S. Coast Guard rescued three people from Tennessee after their boat capsized Wednesday some 15 miles off Florida's Gulf Coast.The agency said in a news release that the boaters called at 2:09 p.m., saying their flat bottom fishing boat was taking on water and they needed assistance.A Jayhawk helicopter crew located the men wearing life jackets and clinging to the capsized boat.

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‘The other side of him was a monster:' Amber Heard wrapping up evidence in Johnny Depp libel trial

LONDON – Amber Heard is wrapping up her evidence in Johnny Depp’s libel case against a British tabloid over allegations of domestic violence, further accusing her ex-husband of abusing her when he was high on drugs or was drunk.Taking the witness box Thursday for a fourth straight day at the High Court in London, the actor reiterated allegations of abuse when Depp was on a “bender” that would often last days.“Johnny, when he was clean and sober, could be a wonderful person, generous, loving,” she said. “He’s a remarkable man when he’s like that and I loved him.

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Tripura registers ninth Covid-19 death, tally rises to 3,469

₹450 a unit from the National Health Mission office here. The state Health Department has appointed a medical officer to coordinate with various institutions, he said.

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California surpasses New York as worst-hit state for coronavirus cases

novel coronavirus outbreak, as the worst-hit state for cases, according to a Reuters tally of county data.Total cases in the most populous U.S. state rose by 12,112 on Wednesday to a total of more than 421,000, the biggest single-day increase since the pandemic started. California deaths also set a one-day record, rising by 159.

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Chester County sees spike in coronavirus cases; West Chester cancels 2020 events

CHESTER COUNTY, Pa - For several days, Chester County reported a major spike in coronavirus cases. “It’s absolutely concerning. It’s telling us as the county continues to open, as fatigue sets in with our residents, we’re seeing increase,” Chester County Public Health Director Jeanne Casner said.Cases in the past seven days are up 40 percent from the seven days before that.

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Weather Authority: Pop-up storms likely again Thursday

PHILADELPHIA - The Delaware Valley is in for another hot and humid day with a chance of pop-up storms impacting the area later in the day.FOX 29's Sue Serio is calling for highs temperatures around 91, adding another day onto our extended heat wave.

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DeSantis believes Florida will soon contain virus outbreak

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis expressed confidence Tuesday that Florida will soon contain its coronavirus outbreak and that hospitals can handle the current influx of patients, putting forward a positive case even as the state's average daily death toll is now the nation's worst.DeSantis told reporters at a state capitol news conference that hospital admissions and the percentage of tests coming back positive seem to be plateauing or declining in much of the state and that hospitals have sufficient capacity in their intensive care units and overall.“The trend is much better today than it was two weeks ago,” DeSantis said.

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Mint Covid Tracker: Virus rages in south India, active cases double in Kerala

The Mint Covid Tracker runs every week in the print edition. For daily updates to the tracker, click hereClick here to read the Mint ePaperLivemint.com is now on Telegram. Join Livemint channel in your Telegram and stay updated

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Second Dublin building site closes after Covid-19 case

A second Dublin construction site has been closed temporarily after a worker tested positive for Covid-19.

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Signs of farm 'revolution' in India as coronavirus prompts change

NO MIGRANT LABOURNone of the world's major rice exporting nations - India, Vietnam and Thailand - makes significant use of seeding machines.They have come into play in a big way in India this year because hundreds of thousands of migrant labourers from Bihar and Jharkhand states in the east did not arrive in the northern grain belt for the 2020 planting season due to the coronavirus lockdown.That pushed up the price of local workers and made it more economical for farmers to lease rice planting machines rather than pay for hired help, said Jaskaran Singh Mahal, a director at the Punjab Agricultural University.Farm wages have gone up by 1,500 rupees an acre to about 4,500 rupees this year, and growers need around half a dozen workers to

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WNBA Commissioner confident season will be successful

NEW YORK – WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert believes the measures that the league has taken to ensure the players are safe as they work toward their season have been effective.Engelbert said on a conference call Wednesday that there were two positive tests for the coronavirus when the players and staff first arrived on July 6 at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. There have been none since.“Knock on wood every day, but things are stable here,” Engelbert said.

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Police: 2 wounded, including pregnant woman, in Fairhill shooting

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police are investigating after two women, including a pregnant woman, were shot in the city's Fairhill neighborhood.It happened on the 3400 block of North 2nd Street and Ontario around 10 p.m. Wednesday.According to police, the women were sitting in the backseat of a vehicle with an infant when a man fired 20 shots from a semi-automatic weapon into the driver's side of the car. Police say the pregnant woman was shot in the elbow and is listed in stable condition. The second woman was shot seven times in the chest and arms.

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health facilities and workforce continue to be under severe strain. To curb renewed spread, some states are enforcing localized lockdowns again.Among states, Maharashtra (12,556), Delhi (3,719), Tamil Nadu (3,144), Gujarat (2,224) and Karnataka (1,519) have reported the most deaths.

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Chester County sees spike in coronavirus cases

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Police: Man wanted for sexual assault of teen in Wilmington park

WILMINGTON, Del. - Surveillance pictures show a man police say is a suspect in the sexual assault of teen girl at Canby Park in Wilmington.One photo is from the park where police say it happened. The other shows the suspect at a nearby convenience store wearing the same outfit.Hector Bautista and Pedro Reyes live across the street."The thing that I heard about this situation was a random guys were in the area and chasing a girl," they said. New Castle County police say it happened on Monday morning 7 a.m.

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Another Kelowna, B.C., business identified as possible site for COVID-19 exposure

COVID-19.Anyone who attended Browns Socialhouse on Harvey Avenue on July 13 or from July 16 to 19 are asked to monitor themselves closely for symptoms, and to get tested if they show up. B.C.

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Motorcyclist killed in crash in Lake County

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A 23-year-old Minneola man was killed in a crash in Lake County around 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday.The Minneola man was on his motorcycle heading northbound on U.S.

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‘We wanted the shoes to symbolize a life’: 164 pairs of clogs laid on Capitol lawn for nurses lost to COVID-19

FILE - National Nurses United (NNU) displays 164 white nurse’s clog shoes outside the U.S. Capitol to honor the nurses who have lost their lives to COVID-19.

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Police: Woman's body found inside plastic container in South Philadelphia

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