Workers at a Kroger clinic in Central Virginia accidentally injected some customers with empty syringes instead of the Covid-19 vaccine, according to the grocery chain. A Kroger spokeswoman said in a statement that “a small number of patients” received the empty shots at their The Little Clinic location in Midlothian, which is near Richmond. “All
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Zoo will be open from Saturday, March 13 through Sunday, March 21 for Spring Break 2021. Normal hours of operation are Wednesday through Sunday, but for Spring Break the Zoo will be open Monday and Tuesday as well. Monday through Friday, the Zoo opens at 9:30 am with
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Wall Street is on a tear again Thursday, with tech stocks surging and both the Dow and the S&P 500 on track for new record highs. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite registered the biggest gains, up 2.5% midday. The Dow, meanwhile, climbed 1.1%, or nearly 350 points, while the S&P is up 1.4%. Spring has sprung
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WASHINGTON, DC — Marking a year of loss and disruption, President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law the $1.9 trillion relief package that he said will help the U.S. defeat the coronavirus and nurse the economy back to health. The signing came hours before Biden delivers his first prime-time address since taking office. He’s
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(CNN) — Muchas de las personas que recibieron una dosis única de la vacuna de Johnson & Johnson contra el covid-19 en uno de los primeros ensayos clínicos desarrollaron anticuerpos neutralizantes contra el coronavirus alrededor del día ocho, y para el día 57, todos los voluntarios lo habían hecho, según un estudio publicado el jueves
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Google Maps is making some social media-inspired updates to encourage more user-generated content in the app. The app on Thursday introduced several new features aimed at making Google Maps more interactive, including one that makes it easier for users to share photos of locations they visit. The changes are just the latest in a string
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The death that sparked a worldwide movement took center stage in a heavily fortified Minneapolis courtroom on Tuesday as jury selection began in Derek Chauvin’s trial in the death of George Floyd. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, then a Minneapolis Police officer, placed his knee on Floyd’s neck
Continue Reading Ace Hardware wants you to stop blaming your kids for not giving you time to paint over the ugly mustard yellow bathroom walls. So the hardware and paint retailer has come up with a solution. It’s paying for a babysitting search service for customers who need it to get their DIY home painting done. Ace
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin now faces an additional murder charge in the death of George Floyd after a Hennepin County judge reinstated a charge of third-degree murder on Thursday. Chauvin already faced charges of second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter, and jury selection in his trial began Tuesday. He has
Continue Reading Teen Vogue’s newly appointed editor in chief isn’t slated to start until March 24, but she has already issued two apologies this week and has drawn the ire of her soon-to-be staff, advertisers and celebrities. Alexi McCammond, who was a political reporter at Axios before being appointed to lead the Condé Nast-owned progressive magazine last
Continue Reading Two lawsuits have been filed against the local power company, blaming the utility for the extent of the damage caused last year by Oregon’s Beachie Creek fire. The fire, which ignited in August and burned through the end of October 2020, destroyed nearly 200,000 acres. More than 1,300 structures, including 470 homes, and at least
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times ) — Davenport city officials intend to use a portion of proceeds from the pending $6.35 million sale of a downtown public housing property to get a long-talked about Juvenile Assessment Center off the ground. Davenport aldermen met Tuesday for a work session to
Continue Reading The European Central Bank plans to pick up the pace of its bond buying in the coming months to bolster the region’s lackluster recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and counter a spike in borrowing costs. The central bank said in a statement on Thursday that over the next three months it expects asset purchases under
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DURHAM, North Carolina (WRAL) — With brush, oil — and a lot of heart — Maria Bennett Hock painted 45 portraits or 45 heroes in 45 days. Every portrait is of an employee at Duke University Medical Center. Hock, a portraitist, longed to give countenance to the faces
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WISCONSIN DELLS, Wisconsin (WiscNews) — The Wisconsin Dells community is helping a retired firefighter and his family rebuild after a fire destroyed their home March 5. At least two online fundraisers and two drop-off donation sites have been set up in Wisconsin Dells and Baraboo to help Chris
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLOWERY BRANCH, Georgia (WGCL) — A teacher at Flowery Branch High School was arrested late Tuesday afternoon for allegedly sending a sexually explicit photograph of himself to one of his students. Hall County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested Matthew “Tyler” Stubbs, 25, of Duluth at the sheriff’s office headquarters.
Continue Reading CVS has added 12 new states to its Covid-19 vaccine rollout as more supply becomes available. In the last week, CVS has started administering the vaccine to eligible populations in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah and Vermont. The company is now administering Covid-19 vaccines in nearly 1,200
Continue Reading Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country’s population that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. To assess a country’s food security, the United Nations uses the five-phase scale known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). Famine can
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — The Portland City Council has finalized a big settlement between the city and the family of a 17-year-old who was shot and killed by police in 2017. The family of Quanice Hayes sued the city and the Portland Police Bureau after he was shot
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Attorney General Merrick Garland arrived at the Justice Department Thursday for his first day at work and spoke about the need to “adhere to norms” in an implicit rebuke of the Trump-era leadership. “We are united by our commitment to protecting our country as our oath says, from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And by
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story QUEENS, New York (WABC) — An incident in which an Asian American mother says she was spit at while holding her baby and called the ‘Chinese virus’ is being investigated as a possible hate crime. The woman told police that the confrontation occurred Tuesday morning, sometime between 10:30
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VALLEJO, California (KGO) — In Vallejo Wednesday, was a birthday party for the ages. It was a gathering of firefighters and a family they know very well though difficult circumstances. We have never seen a party like it, especially for a two-year-old like Michael Reading. “He loves fire
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — Body-cam video shows a Phoenix police officer crashing through a side gate to save a family of six while their house burned down all around them. It happened at a home off McDowell Road and 64th Avenue in Phoenix on Saturday. Eighty-year-old Ruby Johnson Smith
Continue Reading Senior members of the US military took to Twitter late Wednesday and Thursday to call out Fox News host Tucker Carlson for a sexist segment in which he mocked women serving in the armed forces. Carlson, who is effectively the face of Fox and hosts the top show on the right-wing channel, ridiculed President Joe
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Niecy Nash knows that people were surprised when she married Jessica Betts last August. “The Claws” star said on Ellen DeGeneres talk show on Wednesday that she and Betts, a singer, were friends for more than four years before they became romantically involved. “You called her my wife,” Nash told DeGeneres. “I lovingly call her
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Sí, el nuevo coronavirus lleva más de un año propagándose por el mundo y cobrando millones de vidas, pero aún hay muchos aspectos que no conocemos del todo sobre el covid-19, incluidos los efectos a largo plazo en nuestro cuerpo y todos los síntomas que pueden persistir. Es un virus engañoso y
Continue Reading (CNN) — Dinamarca suspendió el uso de la vacuna contra el covid-19 de Oxford-AstraZeneca durante 14 días mientras investiga informes de algunos pacientes que desarrollaron coágulos de sangre después de ser inoculados. Esto ocurre días después de que varios otros países de la Unión Europea (UE) suspendieron el uso de un lote específico de la
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden puede informar en su primer discurso en horario estelar el jueves que una campaña de vacunación que ahora llega a 2 millones de personas al día ha acercado mucho más a Estados Unidos a salir de la pandemia que cuando asumió el cargo hace 50 días. Con las nuevas
Continue Reading (CNN) — Una segunda ola de covid-19 está arrasando a Brasil, empujando a los hospitales y a las unidades de cuidados intensivos (UCI) al colapso y sumando números récord de muertes diarias. Si bien una nueva variante del coronavirus se propaga por todo el país, muchos brasileños continúan desafiando las restricciones de movilidad de los
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