The Purcell Register

Taco Bells in West Virginia and four other states have been linked to a multistate outbreak of cyclospora, a parasite that causes diarrhea. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising people not to eat shredded iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell in those states, including the Patrick Street location of Taco Bell in Charleston, West Virginia on Friday, July 17, 2026.

Recreational boating has become one of the country’s most reliable leisure markets, and most owners will tell you the appeal is not hard to understand. Being on open water feels like freedom, and whatever pressure follows people through the rest of life tends to stay on shore. But the financial side of ownership is a different matter, and that reality usually comes into focus where the stakes are highest.

Posted Friday, July 17, 2026 5:53 pm Holly Cheng, center, speaks outside the Ralph L. Carr Judicial Center in Denver Friday. Members of the Shut Down GEO coalition delivered a letter to Attorney General Phil Weiser about the active tuberculosis case at the immigration detention facility in Aurora.

The Iowa Board of Pharmacy regulates the profession and imposes disciplinary action against licensed pharmacists. (Photo by Clark Kauffman/Iowa Capital Dispatch; board seal courtesy State of Iowa) The Iowa Board of Pharmacy has sanctioned a hospital pharmacy for failing to adequately monitor its supply of controlled substances.

An aerial view of the Chemours Fayetteville Works plant in northern Bladen County. For more than 30 years Chemours and its predecessor, DuPont, discharged “forever chemicals” into the Cape Fear River. (Photo: Chemours) State Attorney General Jeff Jackson is asking North Carolinians to comment on what he’s calling a “backroom PFAS deal” between the Environmental Protection Agency and chemical manufacturer Chemours.

Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody speaking in Lakeland on July 17, 2026, with HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy (left) and U.S. Reps. Laurel Lee and Kat Cammack and Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson.

Posted Friday, July 17, 2026 3:44 pm Hundreds of Kentuckians with disabilities and their loved ones and advocates came to Frankfort and pleaded with elected officials to find a way to protect the services they receive through Medicaid waivers. July 17, 2026.

Demonstrators at a news conference make a show of support for parents suing the Provo Canyon School on June 15, 2026. (Annie Knox, Utah News Dispatch) After years of negligence allegations, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services revoked the license of the last active campus of Provo Canyon School, a Utah teen treatment institution made infamous by celebrity Paris Hilton saying she was abused while staying at one of its campuses as a teen.

Florida law requires counties to contribute to the costs of the Medicaid program, a safety net program that provides services to the poor, elderly, and disabled. (iStock / Getty Images Plus) With a potential cut in property tax revenue looming for Florida’s counties, other costs are on the rise. The state’s top economists this week agreed that Florida’s 67 counties will be on the hook for nearly $420 million of what the state will spend on Medicaid this fiscal year.

Mayday Health posted signs like this one at gas stations around South Dakota in December 2025 as part of a campaign to spread awareness about the availability of abortion pills. (Courtesy of Mayday Health) A new South Dakota law that criminalizes the advertising of abortion pills cannot be enforced while a lawsuit against it continues, a federal judge ruled Friday.