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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

Click here for updates on this story     BENTONVILLE, Arkansas (KFSM) — One man is dead after Bentonville officers shot him when he allegedly charged at them with a kitchen knife during a domestic disturbance. Early Sunday (Jan. 10) morning, just before 3:30 a.m., Bentonville Police received a report of a domestic disturbance happening at a

Forty-six people from the ethnic Pygmy group were killed — some of them decapitated — on Wednesday in a suspected militant attack in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an NGO official based in the central African country. An armed group shot civilians and decapitated others with machetes in Ambedi, a village in Irumu

Canada got a one-two punch Friday as public health officials said vaccine deliveries would be delayed and its Covid-19 measures still aren’t working to control a resurging virus. “We have to buckle down, this is our best way through in the coming weeks of winter,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a news conference Friday

Click here for updates on this story     Mid-Michigan, USA (WNEM) — A mid-Michigan businessman has pleaded guilty to dumping untreated waste into Flint’s sewer system. Robert Massey, president, and owner of Oil Chem, Inc., pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Water Act. The charge stems from illegal discharges of landfill leachate, totaling more than 47

Click here for updates on this story     NEW BRITAIN, CT (WFSB) — A Connecticut wildlife rehab center is struggling to survive because of the COVID-19 crises. When wildlife animals find themselves in trouble, New Britain’s Claws N Paws Rehabilitation Center is there to help. “Our wildlife do not have a voice. They have no one

Click here for updates on this story     OZAUKEE COUNTY, Wisconsin (WDJT) — As essential workers at restaurants and other local businesses struggle to make ends meet, workers in Ozaukee County say someone is stealing their tips. Java Dock employees in Port Washington say a man on Thursday, Jan. 14, walked in and stole the money

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — The Nashville Public Library will suspend curbside service and computer reservations at their main location on Sunday, due to a planned protest at the capitol building. The protest, called the “Tennessee Freedom Event,” is connected to a call for rallies at every state capitol

Click here for updates on this story     AVIS, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — Smoke billowed out of a building on West Central Avenue in Avis. Firefighters said the father and son who rented an upstairs apartment made it out safely, as did the building owner who runs an antique shop downstairs. Verna Bilbay lives across the street.

Click here for updates on this story     YORK, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — On Jan. 12, the York County Sheriff’s Office, along with the United States Marshal Service and West Manchester Police Department arrested William R. Taylor, 60, of York on multiple felony charges including rape, two counts of indecent assault, and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, or