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Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The Asheville Habitat for Humanity is now accepting applications for their homeownership programs. Nearly half of local renters pay more than 30% of their income on rent, and 20% pay more than half of their income on housing. And now, between pandemic-related job loss

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO (KMOV) — The fight over the control of the St. Louis County Council will head to court after last week’s meeting took an unprecedented turn. St. Louis County filed a lawsuit against several of its council members after trying to remove Councilwoman Lisa Clancy

Click here for updates on this story     GRUNDY COUNTY, TN (WSMV) — Over the weekend, more than 250 dogs and puppies were rescued after they were found in unlivable conditions at a home in Grundy County. The Dogs On Borrowed Time rescue posted on Facebook that the woman who lived at the address was selling

Click here for updates on this story     BEAVERTON, OR (KPTV) — A woman has her son back, after a thief stole her car with the child inside. Police responded to a business on the 11900 block of Southwest Canyon Road at around 9 a.m. Saturday. A woman said she went into Basics Meat Market to

Click here for updates on this story     PLYMOUTH, PA (WNEP) — Friends and family gathered in Luzerne County to remember a woman murdered last week, allegedly by her own husband. A vigil was held to honor Mary Barrett. Barrett’s friends say she loved her community in Plymouth and it’s clear they loved her back. Dozens

Click here for updates on this story     VANCOUVER, WA (KPTV) — Washington’s COVID-19 rules now allow for some indoor seating in open-air settings, and breweries in Vancouver are taking full advantage of the change. “People are maybe able to watch the football game and kinda get some shelter from the outdoors,” Jason Bos, one of

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was ordered to remain in custody for 30 days during a makeshift hearing in Russia on Monday, less than 24 hours after he returned to the country and five months after he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. The opposition leader flew back to Moscow from Germany on Sunday, and

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a national holiday, and with it comes some business closings. The main entities closed for the day will be corporate offices, government agencies and banks, but here is a list of what to expect. Most retail and grocery stores, restaurants are open If you need to run errands, you’re

Mars is about to be a very busy place when three separate missions arrive at the red planet in February. One of those missions includes NASA’s Perseverance rover. When it lands, we’ll be able to hear the sounds of Mars for the first time, thanks to microphones riding on the rover. A new interactive experience

As Indonesia continues to count the number of dead from last week’s earthquake on Sulawesi island, search and rescue teams are being stretched to breaking point, as they grapple with a series of disasters unfolding across the country. Flooding in South Kalimantan has killed more than a dozen people and displaced tens of thousands. Rescue

As Los Angeles County battles against the unrelenting coronavirus, an air pollution control agency says it has temporarily suspended limits on cremations in order to assist crematoriums in the county with a “backlog” caused by the pandemic. The South Coast Air Quality Management District said in a news release Sunday that permits for crematoriums usually

Two young men work side-by-side in a butcher’s shop. They live in the same teeming and densely packed town. One is fortunate — he’s eligible to get an Israeli Covid-19 vaccination. The other isn’t. Both are Palestinian residents of Kafr ‘Aqab, a finger of territory that under Israeli law is part of greater Jerusalem, but

Mass public vaccination programs using a Chinese coronavirus vaccine are underway across Indonesia and Turkey, where tens of millions of people are expected to receive doses of the CoronaVac shot made by Beijing-based company Sinovac. On Wednesday, Indonesian President Joko Widodo was shown receiving the country’s first CoronaVac shot, after the government authorized it for