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Police: 4 injured in Texas high school shooting; gunman fled
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - A student opened fire inside a Dallas-area high school during a fight, injuring four people before he fled, authorities said Wednesday.The shooting happened at Timberview High ...
Syndicated Author Oct 06, 2021

Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance
LONDON (AP) - The global outage that knocked Facebook and its other platforms offline for hours was caused by an error during routine maintenance, the company said.Santosh Janardhan, Faceboo...
Syndicated Author Oct 06, 2021

MD counties call for new, bigger bridge across Chesapeake Bay
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Two Maryland counties on either side of the Chesapeake Bay are calling for a new, bigger bridge between them.The Anne Arundel County Council passed a resolution 6-1 Monday night ...
Syndicated Author Oct 06, 2021

Arizona can’t use COVID money for anti-mask grants, feds say
The Biden administration on Tuesday ordered Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to stop using the state's federal pandemic funding on a pair of new education grants that can only be directed to schools without ma...
Syndicated Author Oct 05, 2021

Judge refuses to toss weapons charge against Rittenhouse
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A judge refused to dismiss a weapons charge Tuesday against an Illinois man accused of shooting three people during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin last year.Kyle ...
Syndicated Author Oct 05, 2021

Brady’s return leads NBC to strong Sunday football ratings
NEW YORK (AP) - Tom Brady wins in the television ratings, too.NBC relentlessly promoted the Tampa Bay quarterback's return to New England, and the Bucs-Patriots game reached the biggest "Sunday Night ...
Syndicated Author Oct 05, 2021

US says record-low refugee admissions partly due to pandemic
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The Biden administration said Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic and the difficulty of reversing Trump administration policies were responsible for the record-low number of refugee...
Syndicated Author Oct 05, 2021

FBI raids offices of New York City police sergeants union
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal agents raided the offices Tuesday of a New York City police union, the Sergeants Benevolent Association, and the Long Island home of its bombastic leader, who has clashed with ...
Syndicated Author Oct 05, 2021

Workers at all of Kellogg’s U.S. cereal plants go on strike
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Work at all of the Kellogg Company's U.S. cereal plants came to a halt Tuesday as roughly 1,400 workers went on strike, but it wasn't immediately clear how much the supply of Froste...
Syndicated Author Oct 05, 2021

Former chief of staff to Maryland governor indicted
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's former chief of staff has been indicted on charges that he defrauded a state agency he led by inducing it to pay him nearly $280,000 in mostly severan...
Syndicated Author Oct 05, 2021
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