Coronavirus and politics dominated news in county, across nation
Lampasas police officer Josh Watson, left, and Russell Smith hug as Smith joined a march protesting the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd. Watson worked on traffic control during the march. Two local events in June that focused on Floyd and racial issues had “no incidents of any kind to include damage to property or violence,” Chief of Police Sammy Bailey said. FILE PHOTO
Toilet paper and ammunition flew off store shelves, the coronavirus dominated national headlines, and 2020 started and ended with the nation’s leading political parties accusing each other of illegal election schemes.
COVID-19 – also called the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 and the Wuhan Virus -- first was detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. The first confirmed cases in the U.S. were reported ea…
