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By: KDKA-TV News Staff PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A jackpot-winning lottery ticket worth $1.4 million was sold in Allegheny County. READ MORE: Pittsburgh To Invest $16M In Street Resurfacing Program This Year The Quick Cash ticket was sold at Brew-Thru Beer Distributor on Yost Boulevard. That business gets a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. READ MORE: More Than 600,000 Pennsylvanians Have Registered For Mail-In Ballots For May 18 Primary The ticket was sold for the Saturday drawing and matched all five balls drawn, 17-28-32-34-38. More than 34,600 other tickets also won prizes in the drawing. MORE NEWS: Stimulus Check Update: Is A Fourth Relief Payment Coming Your Way? The lottery is reminding players to check every ticket, every time. Anyone holding a jackpot-winning ticket should contact the nearest lottery office or call 1-800-692-7481. … [Read more...] about Jackpot-Winning Lottery Ticket Worth $1.4M Sold In Allegheny County

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said Monday that “now is not the time” to lift coronavirus restrictions, despite recent declines in cases and deaths. “I remain deeply concerned about a potential shift in the trajectory of the pandemic,” Walensky said during a White House press briefing . “The latest CDC data continue to suggest that recent declines in cases have leveled off at a very high number.” Walensky said that the most recent seven-day average for new coronavirus cases represents a 2% increase from the previous seven-day average, and the seven-day average for deaths also represents an increase of more than 2%. WATCH: WATCH: Today, our public health experts are joined by COVID-19 response team coordinator Jeff Zients to talk through all things Johnson & Johnson vaccine and the progress we’ve made in our vaccination program in the last week. https://t.co/X4HFEkx15H — White House COVID-19 Response Team … [Read more...] about CDC Director Says ‘Now Is Not The Time’ To Lift Lockdowns Despite Decline In Coronavirus Cases And Deaths

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Miami-Dade County is no longer under a curfew. Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced last week she is lifting the curfew, effective Monday, April 12, due to an increase in vaccinations, plus declining hospitalization and death rates. READ MORE: Miami Beach Cancels South Beach Curfew No more curfew is great for business, especially for all of the shops and restaurants in Wynwood. “For the food and beverage, this could 30-40 percent for some of these business and that’s huge,” said Manny Gonzalez of the Wynwood Business Improvement District. “That’s huge because at 12:00, they were going to Broward and neighboring cities and the City of Miami was losing and with these new hours it’s just going to account for more money for everybody.” Gonzalez says he expects a crush of people, internationally and locally, to swarm the creative streets of Wynwood and spreading COVID is not a concern. “The majority of the businesses have outdoor components, all of them. … [Read more...] about Road To Reopening: Miami-Dade County Lifts Midnight Curfew

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Stormy weather to our north on Sunday caused dozens of flights to be delayed or canceled at South Florida’s airports and those delays and cancellations continued into Monday. At Miami Internationa Airport , 70 flights were delayed and 142 were canceled on Sunday. READ MORE: COVID In Florida: 1,613 New Cases, 35 Deaths Reported On Monday Monday’ss delays were a domino effect from Sunday’s cancellations. At Miami International, Alexandra Martins has been trying to get back to New Jersey since her flight was canceled on Sunday. “It was mayhem with the storm last night. We got to the airport at 7:30 a.m. for a 9:30 a.m. flight. We got on the airplane, they stopped the airplane and made us come back to the gates. They delayed us three times and on the fourth time, they canceled it. We waited in line four hours to rebook and they had nothing for us until Tuesday. Then they had us on stand-by to go to Charlotte, North Carolina and then we were able to get … [Read more...] about South Florida Airports Report Flight Delays, Cancellations

A leading public health expert is swatting down a claim from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) that his state will soon reach herd immunity from the coronavirus. “We absolutely are not declaring victory at this time. We remain very vigilant and guarded and proactive in our response, but there is simple math behind the reason why still we continue to have success,” Abbott said on "Fox News Sunday," adding later that "very simply, it’s a whole lot more difficult for COVID-19 to be spreading to other people in the state of Texas.” “I don’t know what herd immunity is, but when you add that to the people who have immunity, it looks like it could be very close to herd immunity,” Abbott added. ADVERTISEMENT But Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist and director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy who advised President Biden Joe Biden Federal Reserve chair: Economy would have been 'so much worse' without COVID-19 relief bills … [Read more...] about Health expert pushes back on Texas governor’s herd immunity claim