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Apr 08 2024
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Rural Oklahoma towns welcome thousands for total eclipse
Two small towns in rural Oklahoma are welcoming an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 people to Beavers Bend State Park as visitors come to witness the solar total eclipse. Typically, the towns of Broken Bow and Hochatown have year-round populations of 2,500 and 150, respectively. Oklahoma Secretary of Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage Shelley Zumwalt told ABC News that McCurtain County has been
ABC News (Online)Apr 07 2024
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Firms see profit in opening rural psychiatric hospitals
GRINNELL — A for-profit company has proposed turning a boarded-up former nursing home here into a psychiatric hospital, joining a national trend toward having such hospitals owned by investors instead of by state governments or nonprofit systems. The companies see a business opportunity in the shortage of inpatient beds for people with severe mental illness. That scarcity of inpatient
Cedar Rapids GazetteApr 10 2024
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Crack in rural Utah dam puts nearby town at risk
By Brittany Peterson and Hannah Schoenbaum | Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Workers hurriedly tried to shore up a rural Utah dam after a 60-foot (18-meter) crack opened and sent water pouring into a creek and endangering the 1,700 residents of a downstream town. State and local officials don’t think the Panguitch Lake Dam is in imminent danger of breaking open but have told the residents to
San Jose Mercury NewsApr 14 2024
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Bodies found in rural Okla. county by investigators searching for 2 missing mothers
United Press InternationalApr 05 2024
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The Book 'White Rural Rage' Gets the Research Wrong
The book White Rural Rage was co-authored by political scientist Tom Schaller and commentator Paul Waldman. As the title suggests, the gist is that white rural voters are a threat to democracy. But political scientist Nicholas Jacobs from Colby College says the authors of the book have gotten some of the research underlying their claims wrong. He has a personal stake in the argument because
HotAirApr 17 2024
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3,400 plants seized in another big marijuana bust in rural Maine
Authorities arrested a California man in the town of Harmony in central Maine. HARMONY, Maine — Maine law enforcement officials said they broke up another large-scale, illegal marijuana growing operation in a rural part of the state Tuesday. The Somerset County Sheriff's Office said it seized 3,400 marijuana plants, $1,882 in suspected drug proceeds, and a 2017 Ford Transit van, among other
News Center MaineApr 03 2020
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Rural America braces for coronavirus
Rural health systems are bracing for a surge in patients suffering from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, that could overwhelm small and underfunded hospitals in areas where populations are particularly vulnerable to serious symptoms.
The coronavirus outbreaks in the United States have been the most intense in major cities and suburbs like New York, New Orleans,
The HillApr 17 2024
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Oklahoma woman facing murder and kidnapping charges chaired rural county’s GOP
In Oklahoma, four people are facing criminal charges in connection with the deaths of two Kansas women who disappeared in Oklahoma's panhandle. And according to KOCO Channel 5 News in Oklahoma City, one of them, Tifany Adams, was chosen as chair of the Cimarron County, Oklahoma Republican Party in 2023. KOCO's Abigail Ogle reports that Adams, Tad Cullum, Cole Twombly and Cora Twombly have been
AlterNetMar 25 2024
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Half of rural hospitals are now operating in the red
All three of the rural hospitals in Oregon’s Coos County are losing money. Humboldt County's four rural hospitals in California are facing a similar situation. In fact, 10 out 17 rural hospitals across far northern California and southwest Oregon are in the red, according to a recent report by health care consulting company Chartis. It was created from data collected this year. Hospitals that
Jefferson Public RadioApr 04 2024
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Colorado rural community Las Animas fights for economic survival
Tumbleweeds fill the front window of a storefront on 6th Avenue in Las Animas. Yes, it's staged, but the storefront--like many others--is vacant, in a town for which Colorado's economic boom seems to have passed by. While the front range continues to grow, many eastern Colorado rural communities struggle to survive. "Not only do we not have many small businesses here, many of our businesses
CBS News (Online)