Residents living near a hazardous waste landfill in Yukon could share in a tentative $275,000 class-action lawsuit settlement that claims their homes have been impacted by polluted dust and odors from the site since 2014. Payments from the proposed settlement with MAX Environmental Technologies Inc. — to those living in
An industrial waste treatment and storage company’s plans to add a million tons of capacity at its Yukon landfill will be explored during a public meeting Thursday in the South Huntingdon community. The Mountain Watershed Association wants to inform residents about Max Environmental Technologies Inc.’s plans for a new storage
In the 1970s, anyone living in the vicinity of Saunders Station near the Murrysville-Monroeville border is likely to have known Turtle Creek by another name: “Sulfur Creek.” It was a far cry from the waterway’s earliest known name, “Tulpewi Sipu,” which translates from the native Delaware Algonquian as “turtle stream.”
New COVID-19 treatment saves local great-grandmother just in time for Christmas
Houston-area great-grandma saved by new COVID-19 treatment
A new COVID-19 treatment saved a Houston-area great-grandmother just in time to celebrate Christmas. And she didn t have to be hospitalized.
HOUSTON - Susan Forney is calling a new treatment for COVID-19 a miracle. She doesn’t believe she d be alive this Christmas, without the help of it and her doctor at Kelsey Seybold Clinic.
Susan has a lot to live for. The native Houstonian has six children, nine grandchildren, and five great-grandkids. She’s excited she actually gets to celebrate her 92nd birthday on Christmas Eve. Just last month, she wasn’t sure she’d make it to this milestone.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) A 91-year-old woman in Houston received a new COVID-19 antibody treatment after her symptoms worsened, to help keep her from being admitted into the hospital.
The goal of the COVID-19 vaccine is to prevent someone from getting severe symptoms and keep them out of the intensive care unit, but as most still wait to receive the vaccine, they are still very much at risk.
Bamlanivaimab, the new antibody treatment, was just recently approved by doctors for emergency use to help limit the amount of virus in the body.
Susan Forney started feeling ill the weekend of Thanksgiving. Three days later, she tested positive for COVID-19 and said she had never felt so sick. A couple of days passed, and she took a turn for the worst.