Steve Prorak/EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Rural Americans are more likely to die early from one of the five leading causes of death than those who live in urban areas, according to new federal data.Researchers looked at the number of potentially preventable deaths from 2010 through 2022. The report was published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Rural Americans were more likely to die from heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, stroke and chronic lower respiratory disease before age 80 compared to urbanites, researchers said."There is a well-described, rural-urban divide in the United States, where rural residents tend to be sicker and poorer and to have worse health outcomes than do their non-rural peers," Dr. Macarena Garcia, a senior health scientist in the CDC s Office of Rural Health, said during a press conference on Monday.About 20% of the U.S. population lives in rural areas while the remaining 80% live in urban areas, according to da
City Council agrees to borrowing package for new Fleet Management Building.
The Jamestown City Council has agreed to go-ahead with borrowing up to $2.7-million to complete the new, Fleet Maintenan.
ABC News(NEW YORK) At least five deaths, including one of a 4-month-old child in Oklahoma, were confirmed Sunday from a severe storm that swept through the heartland, spawning multiple tornadoes across four states, including a powerful pair of twisters that touched down in Nebraska, officials said.Emergency officials in Hughes County, Oklahoma, said the baby was one of four people killed in storms that struck Holdenville. One person died from storm-related injuries at a sports bar in Sulphur that was hit by a tornado, officials said. At least 30 people were injured in Sulphur, including 20 who were at the sports bar, according to officials.Oklahoma Gov. J. Kevin Stitt confirmed Sunday afternoon that at least four people were killed in the storms that slammed his state.One person was reported dead in Marietta, Oklahoma, and two people were killed in Ada, Oklahoma, Stitt said.A state of emergency was declared in 12 Oklahoma counties, authorities said.Sunday night, the National Weather
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Man arrested for driving drunk in one-car, rollover accident in Jamestown.
A 63 year-old man was not hurt. but, faces a drunk driving charge after his jeep rolled over during a one-car crash in .