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Poland is investigating disruptions to train traffic from unauthorized radio signals
Read full article: Poland is investigating disruptions to train traffic from unauthorized radio signalsPolish security authorities are investigating multiple cases of disruption to railway traffic, after unauthorized radio signals stopped several trains over the weekend.
South Korean inquiry to look into 237 more foreign adoptions suspected to have laundered origins
Read full article: South Korean inquiry to look into 237 more foreign adoptions suspected to have laundered originsSouth Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate 237 more cases of South Korean adoptees who suspect their family origins were manipulated to facilitate their adoptions in Europe and the United States.
100 workers possibly became sick with fungal infection at Michigan business
Read full article: 100 workers possibly became sick with fungal infection at Michigan businessHealth officials are investigating nearly 100 suspected cases of a potentially severe fungal infection linked to a Michigan paper mill, nearly one month after employees appeared to have "atypical" pneumonia cases.
South Korea's truth commission to probe foreign adoptions
Read full article: South Korea's truth commission to probe foreign adoptionsSouth Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate the cases of dozens of South Korean adoptees in Europe and the United States who suspect their origins were falsified or obscured during a child export frenzy in the mid- to late-1900s.
KPRC 2 Investigates launches original documentary series, ‘The Evidence Room’
Read full article: KPRC 2 Investigates launches original documentary series, ‘The Evidence Room’KPRC 2 Investigates is launching a new documentary series taking you inside the county archive of criminal exhibits and into the world of some of Houston’s most notorious cases.
HPD, SPCA investigating 5 different cases of animal abuse caught on camera
Read full article: HPD, SPCA investigating 5 different cases of animal abuse caught on cameraThe Houston SPCA has teamed up with local enforcement to investigate five different cases of animal abuse that were caught on camera over the past two months.
New COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations still falling in Texas
Read full article: New COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations still falling in TexasAUSTIN, Texas (AP) – New Texas COVID-19 cases took a solid dip in their total on Friday, according to the state case count. The Texas Department of State Health Services reported 3,521 new cases Friday, 852 fewer than the day before. The addition of 53 previously unreported cases brought the state’s pandemic total to 2,739,385. The state also reported the fewest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations since Oct. 10 at 3,752 as of Thursday, the most recent total available. Johns Hopkins University researchers say the 158 new COVID-19 deaths reported Friday raised the state’s pandemic death toll to 47,193.
Supreme Court rejects Trump election challenge cases
Read full article: Supreme Court rejects Trump election challenge casesFILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020 file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. The Supreme Court will take up challenges to controversial Trump administration policies affecting family-planning clinics and immigrants, even though the Biden administration has announced it is reviewing them. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a handful of cases related to the 2020 election, including disputes from Pennsylvania that had deeply divided the justices just before the election. The cases involved an appeal of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision requiring election officials to receive and count mailed-in ballots that arrived up to three days after the election. Republicans had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put that extension on hold ahead of the election.
Houston Health Department now doing lab testing for suspected coronavirus cases
Read full article: Houston Health Department now doing lab testing for suspected coronavirus casesHOUSTON – The Houston Health Department laboratory announced Wednesday that it will now conduct COVID-19 testing for cases that meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testing criteria. The test results are considered a “presumptive positive,” and are being sent to the CDC lab in Atlanta for confirmation. Results from specimens collected by medical providers from suspected cases are expected to arrive in Houston for testing within 24 hours. I am gratified the CDC has approved local COVID-19 testing in our Houston Health Department lab,” said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. If a test comes back positive, that test would be sent to the CDC lab for further confirmation, but local testing is considered actionable.