Video calling has, for many, been key to staying connected with friends, family and coworkers as coronavirus forces people to stay apart. Now, the technology is being used to connect health care providers and patients in hospitals. Northwell Health, a New York health care system, is expanding a program to outfit coronavirus patients’ rooms with
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A piece of celestial good luck likely made it easier for engineers to successfully refloat the giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week. Sunday’s so-called full “Worm moon” led to a high spring tide — about 18 inches (46 centimeters) above normal — on Monday, which eased the process of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Three Pittsburgh residents are charged with pandemic-related fraud. Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Monday that Linda Slade, Dr. Rochelle Oaks and Keith Brown are accused of conspiring to provide false information on Pandemic Unemployment Assistance applications and fraudulently submit claims on behalf of at
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Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Tuesday formally dismissed the statements of a controversial Trump-era committee that argued that some rights may not be worthy of protection — an initiative that civil liberty groups and advocacy organizations feared would have damaging effects on human rights abroad and the freedoms of women and LGBTQ people. Blinken
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Almost 60 years after they rumbled in a pretty awful 1962 movie — featuring guys in monster suits destroying tiny models — “Godzilla vs. Kong” reunite with all the wonders that modern special effects can offer and still don’t much improve the results. After a lengthy buildup, this “thrilla” in the “MonsterVerse” — for anyone
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story AMADOR COUNTY, California (KOVR) — A Jackson man has been arrested after a fight in the Walmart parking lot that escalated to a person being struck and run over by a pickup truck. The incident happened Monday afternoon in Amador County. According to the sheriff’s office, dispatchers got
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Four bystanders who witnessed former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin kneel on George Floyd testified in court Tuesday about the horror and fear they felt watching Floyd slowly die. The bystanders included a 9-year-old girl, two high school students and a mixed martial arts fighter. Each said they had gone to the Cup Foods corner
Continue Reading The Bidens’ dog Major has been involved in another biting incident that required medical attention, two people with knowledge of the incident tell CNN. The incident, which involved a National Park Service employee, took place on the White House South Lawn on Monday afternoon. The employee was working at the time and needed to stop
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Credit card fraud, payment app scams, wire transfers gone wrong; you’ve likely heard about the different ways you can get conned out of your coin through these payment methods. But today, the Morning Insiders are telling you about a scam involving a new type of
Continue Reading After two years of searching for problems with the investigation into Donald Trump’s campaign advisers in 2016 and their ties to Russia, federal prosecutor John Durham hasn’t found wrongdoing by Obama-era intelligence officials involved who were outside of the FBI. But Durham is still at work, looking at early aspects of the FBI investigation into
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ROXBURY, Massachussetts (WBZ) — A car crashed into a clinic that provides COVID vaccinations in Roxbury overnight, but appointments are still on for Tuesday as scheduled. The car hit and damaged the front of the Whittier Street Health Center on Blue Hill Avenue around 3 a.m. and came
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou forward Ed Chang has entered the transfer portal, according to an MU spokesperson. Chang did not play a single minute during his one and only season with the Tigers. The 6’8″ forward is the fourth MU player to transfer this offseason. He joins Mark Smith, Xavier Pinson and Parker Braun.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — UW-Madison’s obstetrics and gynecology department changed its surgical consent process to ask patients to sign consent forms on the day of surgery, not before, after a case in which a patient’s ovaries were not removed as desired during a hysterectomy. “This reduces
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Attorney General Merrick Garland has launched a 30-day “expedited review” to figure out how the Justice Department can “deploy all the tools at its disposal” to combat hate crimes across the country, according to a memo released Tuesday. The effort comes on the heels of a rise in hate crimes and hate incidents — specifically
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DANVILLE, Virginia (Danville Register and Bee) — Five inmates at the Danville Adult Detention Center have tested positive for COVID-19, marking the second outbreak at the facility this month and the third since December. The inmates tested positive last week and are in quarantine, said Frank Mardavich, the
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Police in Boulder, Colorado, are paying tribute to 10 people who lost their lives in last week’s shooting at a grocery store in the city. The Boulder Police Department announced Tuesday that it has put the names of those who died in the shooting on decals on its vehicles. The victims included a Boulder police
Continue Reading Kentucky’s Republican-led General Assembly this week passed bipartisan voting reform legislation setting rules for absentee and early voting — an exception to increasingly polarized partisan efforts in multiple states to remake election rules in the wake of the 2020 presidential race. The bill, which received widespread support from both Democrats and Republicans in the Republican-led
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Lyndon, Wisconsin (wiscnews.com) — Court documents from a double homicide in the town of Lyndon show authorities believe the victims were murdered using a baseball bat following an argument. Deputies from the Juneau County Sheriff’s Office found the bodies of Tina Decorah, 42, and Duane Mallory, 33, at
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOLINE, Illinois (Quad-City Times) — A Moline High School teacher is on leave after allegedly sharing a homemade sex video on SnapChat in November, where it was seen by multiple students. The Moline Dispatch-Argus and Quad-City Times on Monday obtained a copy of a heavily redacted Moline Police
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GWINNETT COUNTY, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — Gwinnett County’s tax commissioner and one member of its Board of Commissioners are engaged in a public dispute over whether the county’s top tax official should charge eight cities that use her office for tax billing a fee that would reportedly
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