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A piece of celestial good luck likely made it easier for engineers to successfully refloat the giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week. Sunday’s so-called full “Worm moon” led to a high spring tide — about 18 inches (46 centimeters) above normal — on Monday, which eased the process of

Click here for updates on this story     PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Three Pittsburgh residents are charged with pandemic-related fraud. Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Monday that Linda Slade, Dr. Rochelle Oaks and Keith Brown are accused of conspiring to provide false information on Pandemic Unemployment Assistance applications and fraudulently submit claims on behalf of at

Click here for updates on this story     AMADOR COUNTY, California (KOVR) — A Jackson man has been arrested after a fight in the Walmart parking lot that escalated to a person being struck and run over by a pickup truck. The incident happened Monday afternoon in Amador County. According to the sheriff’s office, dispatchers got

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — Credit card fraud, payment app scams, wire transfers gone wrong; you’ve likely heard about the different ways you can get conned out of your coin through these payment methods. But today, the Morning Insiders are telling you about a scam involving a new type of

Click here for updates on this story     ROXBURY, Massachussetts (WBZ) — A car crashed into a clinic that provides COVID vaccinations in Roxbury overnight, but appointments are still on for Tuesday as scheduled. The car hit and damaged the front of the Whittier Street Health Center on Blue Hill Avenue around 3 a.m. and came

Click here for updates on this story     MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — UW-Madison’s obstetrics and gynecology department changed its surgical consent process to ask patients to sign consent forms on the day of surgery, not before, after a case in which a patient’s ovaries were not removed as desired during a hysterectomy. “This reduces

Click here for updates on this story     DANVILLE, Virginia (Danville Register and Bee) — Five inmates at the Danville Adult Detention Center have tested positive for COVID-19, marking the second outbreak at the facility this month and the third since December. The inmates tested positive last week and are in quarantine, said Frank Mardavich, the

Click here for updates on this story     Lyndon, Wisconsin (wiscnews.com) — Court documents from a double homicide in the town of Lyndon show authorities believe the victims were murdered using a baseball bat following an argument. Deputies from the Juneau County Sheriff’s Office found the bodies of Tina Decorah, 42, and Duane Mallory, 33, at

Click here for updates on this story     MOLINE, Illinois (Quad-City Times) — A Moline High School teacher is on leave after allegedly sharing a homemade sex video on SnapChat in November, where it was seen by multiple students. The Moline Dispatch-Argus and Quad-City Times on Monday obtained a copy of a heavily redacted Moline Police

Click here for updates on this story     GWINNETT COUNTY, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — Gwinnett County’s tax commissioner and one member of its Board of Commissioners are engaged in a public dispute over whether the county’s top tax official should charge eight cities that use her office for tax billing a fee that would reportedly

Click here for updates on this story     FARMINGTON, Maine (WMTW) — Farmington police say a woman was killed Monday morning when strong winds caused a tree branch to fall onto her moving car. Police say the incident occurred along Knowlton Corner Road shortly before 10 a.m. Rochelle Hager, 31, of Waterville died at the scene