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More Than Two Dozen Zappos Workers Taken To Hospitals

Officials in Bullitt County are trying to determine what made more than 50 workers at the Zappos warehouse fall ill this morning with flu-like symptoms and nausea.Twenty-six were taken to area hospitals. An EMS official tells the Courier-Journal that no one is critically ill. The warehouse is still open and operating.Authorities are investigating whether the illnesses are foodborne and orginated in the warehouse cafeteria.

Rick Howlett was midday host and the host of LPM's weekly talk show, "In Conversation." He was with LPM from 2001-2023 and held many different titles, including Morning Edition host, Assignment Editor and Interim News Director. He died in August 2023. Read a remembrance of Rick here.