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Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE (WSMV) — Out of a job since last June due to COVID-19, Clarksville resident Calvin Stewart never thought he’d still be fighting for his unemployment benefits months later. “I tried to get unemployment and they denied me the first time and said something was wrong with it,”

Click here for updates on this story     PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — A Phoenix woman got a helping hand from some neighbors after vandals defaced her home with swastikas. Alba Rodriguez, who lives in the Willo Historic Neighborhood in central Phoenix, said she and her fiancée were out of town when it happened. She was first alerted

Click here for updates on this story     PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — Monoclonal antibody therapy can dramatically reduce the need for hospitalization from COVID-19 in some of the most at-risk populations, but only about a quarter of the doses that were shipped to hospitals across the country has been used. The drug may have been the difference

Click here for updates on this story     HONOLULU (KITV) — To offset the financial downturn brought on by a drop in visitor arrivals throughout the pandemic, Honolulu based consulting firm Mana Up is trying to spread the aloha spirit to the rest of the world through its local businesses. “Hawai’i is a globally loved brand,”

Click here for updates on this story     OAHU, Hawaii (KITV) — The odds of being struck by lightning are low, but it happened to one Oahu man last year. His story went viral, and since then lightning didn’t strike twice, but something more common did. He’s now recovering from COVID-19, and is sharing his story

Click here for updates on this story     WEST LINN, Oregon (KPTV) — Even with Oregon’s educators becoming eligible to get the vaccine Monday, a group of teachers in the West Linn-Wilsonville School District says it’s still too soon to go back to the classroom. “We’re here because we care about our entire community, we care

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A man bit a police officer after smashing out car windows Saturday, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Officers responded to Southwest 16th Avenue and West Burnside at 12:28 p.m. Saturday. Witnesses said a man was smashing out vehicle windows. When officers arrived, the

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system including six planets and it’s not quite like anything they’ve seen before. The system could challenge the theories scientists have about how planets form and change over time. Our solar system is just one of many planetary systems, and so far, no two systems are alike. The systems vary

Click here for updates on this story     HARTFORD, Connecticut (Hartford Business Journal) — Swearing in of lawmakers, organizational committee meetings, and other rituals marking the start of the state legislative session may seem a tad corny or incidental for some, but you can bet your bottom dollar that most lobbyists will be present. Count DeVaughn

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