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So many people are adopting dogs in this time of pandemic-induced loneliness that shelters are being emptied out. A recent “biting incident” involving a certain presidential pup, though, might have some reconsidering. Major, a German shepherd adopted by the Bidens in 2018, was removed from the White House last week after he displayed aggressive behavior

Click here for updates on this story     PEGRAM, Tennessee (WSMV) — Music from our history is now part of our future for some people in the Midstate. On a weekday morning in Cheatham County, the Fiddle and Pick is full throttle. Here are the strings of the instrument that takes the spotlight. Gretchen Priest opened

Click here for updates on this story     HENDERSON COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — The Henderson County COVID-19 Call Center announced it has changed the way it will contact individuals on the COVID-19 Vaccine Waitlist. On Monday, the Henderson County Department of Public Health announced the Call Center has been made aware that the number used

A Michigan high school student accidentally detonated a homemade explosive device he brought to school Monday morning, injuring himself and four of his classmates, police said. Officers from the Newaygo Police Department responded to Newaygo High School in west-central Michigan at 8:52 a.m. after a report of an explosion inside a classroom, state police said

As a university student years ago, Kyaw Moe Tun sat out Myanmar’s watershed 1988 pro-democracy protests. “I always listened to my parents, and they wanted me to stay home,” he says. Now, as Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations, he tells Meanwhile that his duty is to protest — on behalf of the people of

Alua Arthur wasn’t looking for death. At 34, she was trying hard to stay alive. Clinical depression had forced a leave of absence from her job as a lawyer, and she was traveling on a bus in Cuba when it met her: A woman, only two years older than her, dying of uterine cancer. The

Three professors at the University of South Alabama have been placed on leave after photos surfaced of them wearing and holding racist symbols at a campus event in 2014, according to a statement from the school. In two photos verified by university spokesperson Lance Crawford, one professor is pictured wearing a Confederate soldier’s uniform, while

Click here for updates on this story     O’FALLON, Missouri (KMOV) — A man was taken into custody after an hourlong standoff in O’Fallon, Mo. that began Monday night. Police surrounded a home in the 600 block of Hawk Run Drive, just off of Winghaven Blvd, around 8:30 p.m. after a man started making homicidal threats

Click here for updates on this story     FLOYD COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — The Floyd County Police Department is commending one of its officers for risking his life to rescue an unconscious teenager from a burning pickup truck. On social media, the community is calling Patrolman First Class Blake Puckett a hero. “I don’t see it