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Juut Salonspa’s owner says uptown location closing due to ‘continued escalation of crime and violence’

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The owner of Juut Salonspa says the Uptown Minneapolis location will close due to “continued escalation of crime and violence in our neighborhood.” “I would be heartbroken if any of our team or clients got hurt,” David Wagner wrote on Facebook. The salon has been

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Attorney General Eric Schmitt

Schmitt closes Sunshine complaint against Missouri governor

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s attorney general has closed an open-records complaint filed against Gov. Mike Parson. Records provided to The Associated Press show Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office last week closed the complaint filed by a Missouri news outlet. A Missouri Independent reporter had asked Schmitt’s office to investigate after Parson’s office refused to

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League promotes baseball fun for all

Click here for updates on this story     BRIDGEPORT, Michigan (WNEM) — A mid-Michigan baseball organization is making sure all kids have a chance to bat this summer. “Without this facility and without this league these kids would be left out of Americas past time the game of baseball,” said Bill Wheeler, the organizer. Thanks to

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New space telescope could spot potentially hazardous asteroids heading for Earth

A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to reality. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope, or NEO Surveyor, has been approved by NASA to move forward to the design phase. The 20-foot-long (6-meter-long) infrared telescope would bolster planetary defense by helping astronomers find

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Lighthouse going up for auction

Click here for updates on this story     BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (WFSB) — A lighthouse in Bridgeport is up for auction. The U.S. General Services Administration announced it is auctioning off the Penfield Reef Lighthouse as part of its mission to deliver value and savings in real estate, acquisition, technology, and other mission support services. The Penfield

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Many turned to libraries during the pandemic for free Wi-Fi and other services. Will these venerable public institutions get the credit they deserve?

Ramses Escobedo probably wouldn’t call himself a hero. But during the pandemic, he was asked to act in some heroic ways. Escobedo, a bilingual Spanish-English librarian, manages a branch of the San Francisco Public Library. For more than a year, however, Escobedo hasn’t been lending out books. Instead, he’s worked with a Covid-19 contact tracer

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Many turned to libraries during the pandemic for free Wifi and other services. Will these venerable public institutions get the credit they deserve?

Ramses Escobedo probably wouldn’t call himself a hero. But during the pandemic, he was asked to act in some heroic ways. Escobedo, a bilingual Spanish-English librarian, manages a branch of the San Francisco Public Library. For more than a year, however, Escobedo hasn’t been lending out books. Instead, he’s worked with a Covid-19 contact tracer

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1-yo girl drowns, dad arrested

Click here for updates on this story     Santa Rosa County, Florida (WALA) — A young child is dead in Santa Rosa County, Fla., and the father is under arrest on a charge negligent homicide. Deputies with the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office responded to a missing person call on Grand Navarre Boulevard in Navarre at

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