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Month: December 2020

Four-legged officer to get body armor

Click here for updates on this story     EDWARDSVILLE, Kansas (KCTV KSMO) — One local police department’s K9 will soon be outfitted in body armor. K9 Bear, a four-legged officer with the Edwardsville Police Department, was recently selected by the charitable organization, Vested Interest in K9s, to receive the donated bullet and stab protective vest. K9

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Riverside Community Hospital converts several rooms into care areas amid surge

NOTE: Shane Reichardt of Riverside County’s emergency management department issued a correction to the county’s earlier note that there weren’t any National Guard teams in Riverside County. Reichardt said the National Guard team at Riverside Community Hospital was originally only supposed to be there for a 72 hour deployment. The county was not aware that

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White House coronavirus task force warns of ‘unstable’ data during the holidays

The White House coronavirus task force warned states of incomplete and “unstable” Covid-19 data due to the ongoing holiday season, making it difficult to track the pandemic’s trajectory as concerns rise over continued or accelerated spread. “Data are currently unstable, outside of daily hospital admissions, due to inconsistent reporting and incomplete data over the holidays;

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Boston removes statue of former slave kneeling before President Lincoln after 141 years

A Boston statue depicting a formerly enslaved man kneeling beneath President Abraham Lincoln was removed Tuesday morning, according to the mayor’s office. The “Emancipation Group” statue has stood in Park Square since 1879. The Boston Art Commission voted to remove it in June after two public hearings and hundreds of letters and survey responses. “We’re

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Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia: Este año hubo dos pandemias, la del covid-19 y la de la violencia

(CNN Español) — En 2020 hubo 11.891 muertes por causas violentas, según el balance anual ofrecido este martes por Roberto Briceño León, director del Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia (OVV), una tasa de 45,6 decesos por cada 100.000 habitantes. La organización destaca que se redujo el índice de muertes con respecto a 2019, cuando se registraron

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Biden says Trump administration is falling ‘far behind’ on vaccine distribution

President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that the Trump administration’s plan to distribute Covid-19 vaccines across the country has fallen “far behind.” “As I long feared and warned, the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should,” Biden said, delivering remarks on the Covid-19 crisis from Wilmington, Delaware. “A few weeks

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El legado de Armando Manzanero en palabras de quienes lo conocieron: cercano, aterrizado, talentoso, gracioso, pícaro

(CNN Español) – Armando Manzanero falleció en la madrugada del lunes 28 de diciembre en la Ciudad de México, días después de ser hospitalizado por complicaciones del coronavirus. El legado musical que deja el maestro Manzanero es de más de 400 canciones. Incluye grandes éxitos que fueron interpretados por famosos como Elvis Presley, Dionne Warwick

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Nashville residents, business owners to retrieve important items and pets from Christmas Day bomb site

Nearly two dozen downtown Nashville residents and business owners were to retrieve important items and pets Tuesday during their first up-close look at the devastation caused by the Christmas Day bombing, police said. Federal agents sifted through debris for evidence of an explosion that rocked a historic part of Tennessee’s capital on what was a

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New York Post to Donald Trump: Stop the insanity

President Donald Trump’s favorite newspaper has turned against him. The New York Post, in an editorial that got the front-page, giant-font treatment on Monday, told Trump he needs to give up his baseless fight to overturn the presidential election result. “Mr. President … STOP THE INSANITY,” read the front page of the tabloid, famous for

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150-year-old Bible saved in Unity church fire

Click here for updates on this story     UNITY, Maine (WMTW) — Firefighters saved a 150-year-old Bible during a fire Monday evening. Crews were called to Unity United Methodist Church on Depot Street around 6 p.m. Monday. The fire chief says the fire appeared to have started in the basement, but the cause is under investigation.

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