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Click here for updates on this story     HARTFORD, Connecticut (Hartford Business Journal) — Years before the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a trend of home-bound amateur cooks attempting high cuisine dishes, Lisa Carson and Connie Wang saw a barrier that’s kept people from experimenting in the kitchen. It’s the spices. “Spices are an ingredient category where you

Click here for updates on this story     HARTFORD, Connecticut (Hartford Business Journal) — About eight years after Chris Allen founded smart home technology company iDevices, the Avon-based business was generating about $100 million in annual revenue. He eventually sold iDevices — which develops and sells smart switches, plugs, sockets, outlets, thermostats and other devices —

Click here for updates on this story     DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — The sensation of a hot poker going through his leg told Davenport Police Sgt. Scott Lansing he’d been hit. It wasn’t until he got to the emergency room and began to undress that he realized how close he’d come to taking more than

Click here for updates on this story     OMAHA, Nebraska (Daily Nonpareil) — They call themselves the Reruns. A group of 26 retired CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs employees, 24 of them former nurses, have teamed up to help the hospital vaccinate staff. “It’s hard to be retired and sit at home, watching all the people

Click here for updates on this story     DANVILLE, Virginia (Danville Register & Bee) — Rebecca Wright was trepidatious about going to her family’s Christmas Eve gathering in person. “Rebecca said she didn’t want to go, that we shouldn’t be gathering,” her husband, Ben Wright, recalled. Soon after their get-together with her parents, son and her

Five people and an unborn child were killed Sunday after an early-morning shooting in Indianapolis’ northeast side, police said — an incident the mayor called “a mass murder.” A juvenile was also in critical condition after being shot in the incident, which marks Indianapolis’ “largest mass casualty shooting in more than a decade,” according to

Click here for updates on this story     WAVERLY, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — About 9 miles north of Waverly off of a dirt road sits a small church and a pastor with a big heart. Bethlehem Covenant Church’s senior pastor Dan Olson has become a source of inspiration for the church’s members to serve both

No arrests or suspects have been announced in what the Indianapolis police chief calls the city’s largest mass casualty shooting in more than a decade. Five people and an unborn child were killed early Sunday on Indianapolis’ northeast side, police said. A juvenile was also in critical condition after being shot, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Chief

Click here for updates on this story     MADISON, Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal) — It’s easy to get the wrong idea about Gary Gates when he’s out scrounging in dumpsters, draining the leftover drops from beer cans and crushing them in his gloved hands. Occasionally, people assume he’s homeless and offer him money, said Gates, 82,

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to lift regional stay-at-home orders in the state on Monday — allowing for gyms and restaurants to engage in limited outdoor activity, according to a letter to its members from the California Restaurant Association. The association, which shared the letter with CNN, said it had been notified of the

“First look” photos have long been a memorable moment for couples on their wedding day. The tradition allows the photographer to capture the look on the love birds’ faces as they see each other all dressed up for the first time. For one Texas couple, this special moment reached a new level of memorability when

The future is looking a little greener: 2020 marked the first year Europeans got more of their electricity from renewable sources than fossil fuels. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox

The Ugandan High Court has lifted the house arrest of Bobi Wine after security forces surrounded the presidential candidate’s home for ten days, his lawyer said Monday. “The Court held that the freedom to personal liberty is too crucial that it should not be restricted casually or indefinitely,” George Musisi told CNN over the phone.

A 15-year-old girl is dead after police say she got into a fight with four other young girls at a grocery store in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. The fight took place Saturday around 7:30 p.m., according to a news release from the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office. The 15-year-old was taken to a local hospital where she