CHICAGO -- Bill Purdue waterproofs basements for a living, but he has spent the past few days in his buddy's Washington, Indiana, auto trim and upholstery shop cutting rectangles of cotton fabric that ...
TEXAS CITY, Texas -- An Eagle Scout from Texas City is taking the Boy Scout slogan "do a good turn daily" to heart. When the COVID-19 pandemic began to impact his community, high school junior Austin ...
Call them the mothers (and fathers) of invention. Out of a need for cloth masks to protect against the COVID-19 virus, several area residents have sprung forth to provide a solution. For many, the ...
A Georgia hospital executive shocked CNN’s Kate Bolduan by telling her that his employees are sewing together their own coronavirus masks to make up for shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. On ...
Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism.
More than a decade after it closed, 20 Yemeni women have revived the war-torn country's oldest factory to make face masks in anticipation of an outbreak of the new coronavirus. 20 women have brought ...