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Couple arrested in murder for hire plot

Click here for updates on this story     LATIMER COUNTY, Oklahoma (KFSM) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) has arrested a wife and her husband in connection with a murder-for-hire plot. According to OSBI, Courtney Deatherage, 25, and her husband Dustin Deatherage, 26, both face solicitation of murder charges in connection with the plot.

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Volunteer Jam rescheduled for August

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — This year’s Volunteer Jam has been rescheduled to August. due to COVID-19 concerns. The 2021 Volunteer Jam: A Musical Salute to Charlie Daniels was originally scheduled for Feb. 22 at Bridgestone Arena, but has been moved to August 18. “As much as we are

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Body pulled from duck pond

Click here for updates on this story     NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — Police are investigating after a body was pulled from the water in Edgewood Park. According to police, officers responded to the park around 8:46 a.m. after getting reports of a body in the Duck Pond. The New Haven Fire Department also responded to

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Carnival kicks off without parade

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — On what should have been the opening night for the big Boom Boom, COVID-19 knocking Mobile’s finest, the Conde Cavaliers, out of their headlining spot for the first time since 1977. The last time the entire Mardi Gras parade season was shelved was in

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Music teacher sentenced to jail time

Click here for updates on this story     LANCASTER, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — Former Lancaster music teacher, Timothy M. Sterner, 54, has been sentenced to prison for sexual misconduct after engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a student over a four-period. Sterner recently admitted to the criminal conduct in Lancaster County Court. He confessed to requesting sexual

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On the anniversary of Covid-19 becoming an official public health emergency, experts say it’s time for a change

It was one year ago today the World Health Organization declared that the novel coronavirus was a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. “At the time there were fewer than 100 cases of the disease we now call Covid-19 and no deaths outside China,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday. “This week we reached

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A Louisiana cemetery told the family of a Black deputy he couldn’t be buried there because it was only for White people

When Karla Semien went to a cemetery to pick out a plot where her late husband would be buried, it was as if she’d stepped back into the 1950’s. Her husband Darrell Semien, a sheriff’s deputy for Allen Parish, Louisiana, died on January 24 after being diagnosed with cancer in December, CNN affiliate KPLC reported.

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As variants threaten Covid-19 progress, US weighs trial results of Johnson & Johnson vaccine candidate

As Covid-19 variants are increasingly found in the United States, experts say Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine candidate would help in the pandemic fight, despite trial reports showing apparently lower efficacy rates than two vaccines already authorized in the US. Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot coronavirus vaccine was shown to be 66% effective in preventing moderate and

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