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Click here for updates on this story     NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut (WFSB) — So many businesses have been affected by the global pandemic, and here in Connecticut, it’s no different. A New Britain college student is looking to save a popular college bar/restaurant after hearing about its struggle to stay open. Melissa and Kenneth Cook, owners

The numbers are in. The hottest seven years in recorded history are: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014. Notice a trend? As 2020 smashed hurricane and wildfire records, doing $90 billion worth of damage in the United States alone, new data shows last year neck-and-neck with 2016 as the hottest year in recorded

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Champlin Police Department has issued what it calls a friendly reminder after a “romantic entanglement” needed to be broken up in a busy parking lot. The police department posted the reminder to social media Wednesday morning and has since garnered over 1,000 likes and

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — On Thursday, student-athletes in Minnesota returned to the court and ice rink for their first games and scrimmages of the winter sports season. Most of these sports are requiring athletes to wear masks during game play and practices. Not all students and parents are too

Click here for updates on this story     DENVER (KCNC) — Leaders in the metro area business community said Thursday they were shocked to learn this week that the military wanted to move U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama, when the Space Force was already headquartered in our state and the aerospace industry has such

Click here for updates on this story     DENVER (KCNC) — As many students and staff prepare to head back into the classroom this semester, some argue if teachers aren’t vaccinated, it’s too soon to learn in-person. At least 600 students, teachers, parents, and staff at East High School have signed a new petition calling on

Click here for updates on this story     SAN JOSE, California (KPIX) — Some Bay Area residents over age 65 got their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday but others are finding out that — just because they’re eligible — it doesn’t mean the shot is easy to get. “It ended up being two

Click here for updates on this story     ORLANDO, FL (WFOR) — An Orlando waitress is being hailed a hero after helping a boy escape from a possibly abusive home. Flavaine Carvalho was working at Mrs. Potato Restaurant on New Year’s Day when she noticed a family walk in. A man, woman, 11-year-old boy, and four-year-old

Click here for updates on this story     ATHERTON, California (KPIX) — Hours of staring at our own faces on video calls during lockdown have gradually made certain features more prominent and bothersome. As a result, plastic surgeons across the country are seeing an uptick in patients seeking surgical and non-surgical treatments. Call it a “Zoom

Click here for updates on this story     OAKDALE, California (KOVR) — We’ve already seen many hesitating before vaccinating. Even some frontline workers are resisting it. That’s what prompted local hospital officials to come up with the idea to pay their workers to get the shots. When the COVID-19 vaccine became available, Dean Berghorst didn’t hesitate

Click here for updates on this story     NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California (KCAL/KCBS) — A local couple who both lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic started their own food business, and now they’re giving back to those hardest hit by COVID-19. “I lost seven of my family members due to COVID,” Leticia, a Chatsworth resident,

Click here for updates on this story     FONTANA, California (KCAL/KCBS) — A 27-year-old Fontana woman died from COVID-19, just two weeks after giving birth her third daughter. Her widower, now raising his three young daughters without his beloved wife, shared their story Thursday in hopes it will prompt people to take the COVID-19 pandemic seriously.

Click here for updates on this story     WOBURN, MA (WBZ) — The past year might have been the toughest Dominic Freni has had to endure— and he survived WWII. He turned 97 Thursday, and to celebrate the milestone a group of friends, family, and strangers gathered for a parade past his Woburn nursing home. It

Click here for updates on this story     BALTIMORE, MD (WJZ) — A judge on Thursday denied the Restaurant Association of Maryland’s lawsuit to overturn Mayor Brandon Scott’s ban on in-person dining in Baltimore. In-person dining at city restaurants has been banned for more than a month. On his first full day in office, Scott announced

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Metro Police are asking for the public’s help locating the man responsible for shooting at a patrol car overnight in West Nashville. The unidentified man fired several shots at a marked police car as it drove through the Twice Daily Shell’s parking lot on

The parents of a 16-year-old with severe autism who died last year are suing the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, sheriff, claiming the teen’s death was caused by deputies who restrained and sat on him for 9 minutes. “Never did we ever think that our 16-year-old son with special needs would die in front of our eyes

Click here for updates on this story     MADISON, Wisconsin (WDJT) — The United States Postal Service is temporarily removing blue collection boxes ahead of potential violence targeted at state capitols, including in Wisconsin. “Due to reports of possible demonstrations beginning this weekend, out of an abundance of caution for the safety of our employees and

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Gov. Kate Brown announced Friday morning what she called “disturbing news” — Oregon will not receive expected additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine next week. In a series of tweets, Brown said the update on vaccine distribution was confirmed to her by General Gustave Perna

Click here for updates on this story     WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — A mother is under arrest in Lycoming County charged with murdering her 5-month-old daughter. Williamsport police say Corrie Cowlay-­Saunders faces homicide and attempted homicide charges. Officer say they were investigating the stabbing of Cordell Faltz, Cowlay­Saunders’ former boyfriend Thursday night at a home on