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Month: February 2021

Court docs: Man facing bias crime charges after repeatedly using racial slur toward Portland police officer

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A 57-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon after he harassed multiple people on a Portland Streetcar and repeatedly called an officer a racial slur, according to court documents. Steven James Betz is facing two counts of second-degree bias crime, second-degree disorderly conduct, second-degree criminal

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AstraZeneca vaccine appears to substantially reduce transmission of the coronavirus, study shows

The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine appears to substantially reduce transmission of the virus, rather than simply preventing symptomatic infections, UK researchers have suggested. The rate of positive PCR tests declined by about half after two doses, according to preliminary results by researchers at the University of Oxford that have yet to be peer reviewed. Their analysis,

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