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• Space Force members gain title of ‘guardian’ in celebration of 1-year anniversary

  18-12-2020 23:53
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is celebrating the first birthday of the U.S. Space Force by announcing that its members will be known as “guardians.”
  Vice President Mike Pence made the announcement during a celebratory event Friday tracing the development of the newest branch of the military over the past year.
  Pence says the men and women of the Space Force “will be known as guardians.” He adds that "soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardians will
  
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• Pro-Trump shakeups continue at VOA’s parent agency

  18-12-2020 23:49
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of U.S.-funded international broadcasting is pressing ahead with his shakeup of the Voice of America and sister outlets by naming new leaders for two of its main networks. He’s also moving to defund one of the federal government’s top democracy promotion initiatives. The flurry of moves by President Donald Trump’s handpicked chief of the U.S. Agency for Global Media come only a month before Trump leaves office. Agency CEO Michael Pack on Friday
  
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• Maryland, Virginia donate vaccine doses to Washington, DC

  18-12-2020 23:47
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a heartening demonstration of interstate collectivism, Maryland and Virginia are each donating 8,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to the District of Columbia. That contribution will more than triple the amount available for health care workers in the nation’s capital. D.C. health officials have complained for weeks that the initial allotment formula followed by the Centers for Diseason Control and Prevention provided Washington with just under 7,000 doses — less
  
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• US Space Force members get a new name: ‘guardians’

  18-12-2020 23:34
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is celebrating the first birthday of the U.S. Space Force by announcing that its members will be known as “guardians.” Vice President Mike Pence made the announcement during a celebratory event Friday tracing the development of the newest branch of the military over the past year. Pence says the men and women of the Space Force “will be known as guardians.” He adds that “soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardian
  
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• US questions Maxwell’s marriage in push to keep her jailed

  18-12-2020 23:34
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell told court officials at the time of her arrest in July that she was “in the process of divorcing her husband.” Federal prosecutors said Friday that disclosure to pretrial services officers undermined her lawyers’ argument that her marriage would keep her in the U.S. if she were released on bail. Prosecutors highlighted Maxwell’s divorce discussion in a 33-page response to her lawyers&rsquo
  
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• UNC suspends 3 fraternities that feds linked to drug ring

  18-12-2020 23:23
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has suspended three fraternities linked to a drug trafficking ring that federal prosecutors say funneled large amounts of drugs into three college campuses. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Greensboro announced this week that 21 people were charged in connection to the ring following an investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewic
  
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• Chicago council members seek deal with woman in wrong raid

  18-12-2020 23:16
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Some members of the Chicago City Council are calling for a special meeting to order officials to settle any legal action with a woman who wasn’t allowed to put on clothes during a botched raid at her home. It’s the latest development in the case of social worker Anjanette Young. She was seen on police video repeatedly pleading with officers in 2019 that they were in the wrong place. The video was released by Chicago officials after they tried unsuccessfully this
  
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• Prosecutor releases security video of Ohio judge being shot

  18-12-2020 23:05
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio prosecutor has released a security camera video showing a judge being shot as he walked to work. Jefferson County Prosecutor Jane Hanlin provided the video following a unanimous ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court last month that the video is a public record and should be released. The court’s ruling came in a case brought by The Associated Press. The video shows Jefferson County Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. being shot outside a courthouse in Steubenville in e
  
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• United: CDC looks into death of man on flight from Florida

  18-12-2020 23:03
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — United Airlines says it has given information about other passengers to federal health officials after a man who possibly had coronavirus-like symptoms died shortly after being on a flight. Airline spokesman Charles Hobart said Friday that United has sent the CDC information so health officials can let other passengers know they may have been exposed to an unspecified disease. United Flight 591 was on its way from Orlando, Florida, to Los Angeles when it was diverted to
  
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• Italy imposes partial lockdown for Christmas holiday

  18-12-2020 23:02
  
  MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte on Friday announced a partial lockdown nationwide for most of the Christmas holiday season out of concern that gatherings of families and friends would re-ignite the virus’s spread.  The new decree puts strict limits on movements on holidays and weekends from Dec. 21 through the Jan. 6 Epiphany holiday, with a slight easing on four weekdays. To allow a glimmer of Christmas cheer, personal visits to friends or family members of no more
  
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• Minimum wage for city employees raised to $15

  18-12-2020 23:01
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The minimum wage for city employees will increase to $15 in 2021, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero announced Friday afternoon.According to the mayor, city officials have decided to increase the wages for city employees, pushing the rate up to $15 in February."As the proud daughter of a union family, I believe that one of the best investments we can make is in our workers," Romero said. "I’m grateful for the support of my colleagues in ensuring our workforce receives a livable wag
  
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• Ohio State tallies hundreds more instances of abuse by doc

  18-12-2020 22:58
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University’s latest campus crime data tallies hundreds more instances of alleged decades-old sexual misconduct by a team doctor who worked there for two decades. Several hundred men allege Richard Strauss abused them. The school says about 2,200 instances of fondling and 127 instances of rape attributed to Strauss came to light in 2018 and 2019, including through lawsuits and a law firm investigation for the university. It disclosed the data this week
  
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• Mormons add call to eradicate prejudice, racism to handbook

  18-12-2020 22:55
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has added new language to the faith’s handbook imploring members to root out prejudice and racism. The update Friday adds significance and permanence to recent comments by top leaders on one of the most sensitive topics in the faith’s history. The handbook is a guiding document used by local lay leaders and members to determine how to handle theological and practical issues. The change comes amid a national r
  
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• Mexico expects more migrants tor return from US in 2021

  18-12-2020 22:55
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials say they expect even more migrants to come back to Mexico from the United States, both as a result of deportations and voluntary returns. While they did not cite the coronavirus pandemic as a motive for migrants’ return, anecdotal evidence suggest that may be prodding some as job opportunities drop in the United States. One factor officials did cite Friday was the election of Joe Biden to be the new U.S. president. The head of the Institute for Me
  
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• Maricopa County to fight Legislature’s election records ask

  18-12-2020 22:51
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors says it will fight a sweeping subpoena issued by the state Senate seeking a raft of data and copies of all mail-in ballots cast in the Nov. 3 election that Democrat Joe Biden won. County supervisors say the subpoena seeks personal information on voters that is illegal to release and raises constitutional issues about voter privacy. The five-member board dominated by Republicans voted 4-1 on Friday to file a court complaint questioning
  
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• Fed finds big US banks in solid shape; keeps dividend limits

  18-12-2020 22:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve says the 33 largest U.S. banks are in strong shape despite the pandemic’s economic shock. The central bank says they have ample capital cushions against unexpected losses, enabling them to keep lending under the most severe straits. The Fed announced the results from a special second round of “stress tests” this year that it added because of damage to the economy from the virus outbreak. The tests showed that all 33 banks remain above
  
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• VIRUS TODAY: 1 in 5 prisoners tests positive for COVID-19

  18-12-2020 22:41
  
  Here’s what’s happening Friday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.:
  THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY
  — One in every five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, a rate more than four times as high as the general population. In some states, more than half of prisoners have been infected, according to data collected by The Associated Press and The Marshall Project.— The head of the Food and Drug Administration said late Thur
  
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• Beware of Scams this Holiday Season

  18-12-2020 22:41
  
  The FBI’s Phoenix field office is warning buyers of common scams during the holiday shopping season.…
  
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• California hospitals ‘crushed’ as virus patients flood ICUs

  18-12-2020 22:35
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Doctors say increasingly desperate California hospitals are being “crushed” by soaring coronavirus infections. One Los Angeles ER doctor is predicting rationing of care is imminent. The state’s death toll meanwhile topped 22,000 Friday with no end in sight. The most populous state recorded more than 41,000 additional positive cases and 300 more dead from the virus, bringing total deaths from the pandemic to 22,160. Hospitals are on the brink of filling
  
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• ‘First Cow’ named 2020’s best film by New York Film Critics

  18-12-2020 22:32
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Film Critics Circle on Friday voted Kelly Reichardt’s Western fable “First Cow” the best film of 2020, while also giving special honors to Spike Lee and the art-house distributor Kino Lorber for their roles in a movie year deeply marred by the coronavirus pandemic. The film critics, assembling virtually, gave its top award to “First Cow,” a delicate tale of friendship and capitalism in mid-1800s Oregon Territory. The critics also g
  
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• Georgia governor blasts attacks on family over election

  18-12-2020 22:28
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is blasting attacks on his wife and daughters by people who want him to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia and says conspiracy theories about the election need to stop. President Donald Trump has excoriated Kemp for not calling a special legislative session to give him the state’s electoral votes. Kemp on Thursday did not blame Trump for the attacks but said people need to deal with facts and shouldn’t go after his family. The R
  
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• The Latest: 2nd reported severe reaction to COVID-19 vaccine

  18-12-2020 22:25
  
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A second healthcare worker has experienced a severe reaction after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, officials said Friday.
  Both cases were in Alaska.
  In the latest, a worker, identified only as a female clinician, began experiencing probable anaphylactic symptoms about 10 minutes after receiving the shot Thursday in Fairbanks. Symptoms included tongue swelling, hoarse voice and difficulty breathing.
  She received two doses of epinephrine at the emergency department at Fai
  
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• Search for Tulsa Race Massacre remains may be expanded

  18-12-2020 22:17
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma official says investigators want to expand their search for bodies of people killed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre after uncovering a dozen sets of remains during a cemetery excavation in October. State Archeologist Kary Stackelbeck confirmed Thursday that investigators believe more than 30 sets of remains may be interred at the site in Oaklawn Cemetery. Stackelbeck says they want to search an area that’s almost five times the size of the trench that
  
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• Biden transition team criticizes cooperation from Pentagon

  18-12-2020 22:14
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is frustrated with the level of cooperation they’re getting from political appointees at the Department of Defense, saying there’s been “an abrupt halt in the already limited cooperation there.” Biden’s transition team has been meeting with officials at various agencies to get detailed reviews of the programs and challenges the new administration will inherit. Yohannes Abraham, executive
  
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• The Latest: HHS Alex Azar tests negative for COVID-19

  18-12-2020 21:59
  
  WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Alex Azar continues to test negative for COVID-19 after his wife contracted the coronavirus.
  Azar told HHS staffers in an email Thursday that his wife Jennifer has mild symptoms, but overall is doing well and self-isolating at home. He and their children have tested negative.
  Azar continues to work, after consulting with Dr. Robert Redfield of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as his own physician.
  “I will be carrying out t
  
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• More than 17K vaccinated in Puerto Rico; new doses en route

  18-12-2020 21:59
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — More than 17,800 people in Puerto Rico have received the COVID-19 vaccine since the first dose was administered earlier this week, with the U.S. territory expecting tens of thousands of additional vaccines to arrive in upcoming weeks. Dr. Iris Cardona, sub-secretary of Puerto Rico’s Health Department, said Friday some 21,400 Pfizer vaccines will be delivered weekly for the next four to six weeks. If the Moderna vaccine is approved, she said the islan
  
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• TRAFFIC: Train blocks access at Cortaro Road, I-10

  18-12-2020 21:55
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - A train has stopped at Cortaro Road, blocking access to the I-10 Interchange Friday afternoon.
  Marana Police Department is on the scene.
  An estimated time for clearing the road has not yet been determined. Motorists are asked to seek alternate routes.
  The post TRAFFIC: Train blocks access at Cortaro Road, I-10 appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Visit by COVID-infected official closes Washington Monument

  18-12-2020 21:53
  
  The Trump administration has closed the Washington Monument because of an earlier visit by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, who tested positive this week for the coronavirus. Interior spokesman Nicholas Goodwin says a couple monument workers were quarantining as a result of Bernhardt’s visit, forcing a staffing shortage and the monument’s closure. The Interior Department announced Bernhardt’s positive test result for the coronavirus on Wednesday. Rules at the monument requir
  
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• Sierra Vista offers free Christmas tree recycling program

  18-12-2020 21:51
  
  PixabayChristmas tree ornaments, Photo Date: December 26, 2016
  SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (KVOA) - The City of Sierra will be recycling Christmas trees starting Dec. 28.
  Christmas trees without decorations can be recycled for free. Cochise County residents can drop them off at the City's Compost Facility at 7201 E. Highway 90.The trees will be turned into high-quality compost available for purchase by the truckload at the compost facility.City customers also have the option to schedule a free curbside
  
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• Police: Arrest made in fire that killed NYC subway driver

  18-12-2020 21:40
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A man suspected of setting a train fire that killed a New York City subway driver in March has been arrested and charged with murder. Police said Friday that detectives linked 50-year-old Nathaniel Avinger to the fatal blaze after he was arrested Wednesday for allegedly groping a transit worker in Brooklyn. Avinger remained in police custody Friday while awaiting arraignment in Manhattan on the murder charge. Online court records didn’t list an attorney representing A
  
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• Desert Diamond Casinos bans smoking on gaming floors

  18-12-2020 21:40
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Desert Diamond Casinos is implementing a new policy to ban smoking on the gaming floors.
  The new policy goes into effect Friday at its Tucson and Sahuarita locations.
  Here's a statement from Treena Parvello, Director of Government and Public Relations for the Tohono O’odham Gaming Enterprise:“The safety of our team members and guests has always been of paramount importance. Our comprehensive safety guidelines are constantly being reviewed a
  
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• Myon Burrell enjoys 1st days of freedom after prison release

  18-12-2020 21:27
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For nearly two decades, Myon Burrell had nothing but time.
  Locked up for life at 16 for a high-profile murder he swore he had nothing to do with, he was stuck in a tiny cell without even a window to watch the seasons change. The years dragged on slowly, and he saw the bodies of once-robust men age and decay.
  Still, he couldn’t help wishing that the outside world would slow down. In the Stillwater prison visiting room and in family photographs, his own son seemed to
  
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• Watchdog: Floyd protests overwhelmed NYPD, sparking conflict

  18-12-2020 21:20
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A new report finds that the New York Police Department was caught off guard by the size and scope of the spring protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd. The report by the city Department of Investigation was released Friday. It says the NYPD resorted to aggressive disorder control methods that stoked tensions and stifled free speech. The six-month probe focused on the NYPD’s institutional planning and response to the May and June protests and not the ac
  
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• Bust to boom: Reddick’s 5-sack day highlights Arizona rise

  18-12-2020 21:17
  
  Cardinals linebacker Haason Reddick set a franchise record with five sacks in the team’s 26-7 victory over the New York Giants. The game is further proof Reddick has morphed from a borderline bust to one of Arizona’s best defensive players. The Cardinals need him to keep playing well if they want to make the playoffs for the first time since 2015. Reddick and players like Dennis Gardeck and Markus Golden have made Arizona’s pass rush effective even without injured 2019 All-Pro
  
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• Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office seizes two fake domain names

  18-12-2020 21:13
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore has seized two domain names posing as biotechnology companies developing COVID-19 treatments but are apparently collecting personal information for fraud and installing malware. U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur says in a news release that an investigation was launched earlier this month after corporate security for one of the companies located the fake website and contacted authorities. The other website was identified during an ong
  
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• Yemen’s president in exile reshuffles Cabinet to end rift

  18-12-2020 21:07
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s embattled president in exile in Saudi Arabia has announced a Cabinet reshuffle, a major step toward closing a dangerous rift between his internationally recognized government and southern separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates. The president said the incumbent premier would keep his job while 24 ministerial posts would be almost equally divided between northerners and southerners. Naming a new government was part of a power-sharing deal between the
  
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• Volkswagen facing ‘massive’ shortage of electronic parts

  18-12-2020 21:04
  
  FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen says it’s facing a massive parts shortage that’s causing production slowdowns at factories in China, Europe and North America. Suppliers of semiconductor parts diverted their sales to consumer products earlier in the coronavirus pandemic as auto sales dried up. But now the car business is bouncing back, and there aren’t enough semiconductor parts to go around. Volkswagen says the shortage will affect production at Chinese, North Americ
  
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• US sanctions tech company for aiding Maduro election gambit

  18-12-2020 21:04
  
  MIAMI (AP) — The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on an Argentine-owned technology company for helping Nicolas Maduro carry out recent legislative elections boycotted as fraudulent by the U.S.-backed opposition. The Caracas-based Ex-Cle CA provided the Maduro government with voting machines as well as software for this month’s vote. The ruling socialist party and its allies swept this month’s legislative elections, capturing around two-thirds of the National Assembly&
  
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• Biden may time confirmation votes to protect House majority

  18-12-2020 21:04
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to tap several House Democrats for administrative positions is putting Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politically tough spot. It’s chiseling away the party’s already slimming House majority, and leaving her potentially without enough votes to pass his legislative agenda. But Pelosi’s leadership team has a plan for that. Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, the Democratic whip and a top Biden ally, said Biden could h
  
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• US stocks slide from records as wait continues for Congress

  18-12-2020 21:03
  
  U.S. stock indexes are pulling back from their record levels Friday as the wait drags on to see if Congress can reach a deal to send more cash to struggling workers and businesses. The S&P 500 was 0.8% lower in afternoon trading, a day after it and other major indexes returned to record heights. Hope that Congress may be nearing a deal to offer more support for the economy has helped put the S&P 500 on track for a 0.8% gain this week. So has enthusiasm about vaccines for COVID-19, which
  
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• The Latest: WHO says expert team heads to China in January

  18-12-2020 20:58
  
  GENEVA — The head of emergencies at the World Health Organization says a team of international experts looking into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic will travel to China the first week of January.
  Dr. Michael Ryan says there will be quarantine arrangements for the team, which will visit the suspected site of the outbreak in the city of Wuhan.
  “The purpose of the mission is to go to the original point at which human cases were detected and that we fully expect to do that,&rdquo
  
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• Teen stops domestic attack on mom, then is fatally stabbed

  18-12-2020 20:48
  
  AUSTIN, Minn. (AP) — A teenage boy stepped in to save his mother from an attack by her husband, only to end up being fatally stabbed by the man. Authorities say five younger children were hiding upstairs during the attack Tuesday and were not hurt. According to criminal charges, 27-year-old Jaime Vaca and his wife were arguing when one of the younger children got the teenage boy to help. He kicked in the bedroom door as Vaca was choking his mother. Vaca stopped when the son intervened, gra
  
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• PCSD implements some changes following mandatory curfew

  18-12-2020 20:44
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Due to Pima County's mandatory curfew, the sheriff's department is also implementing some changes.
  Pima County Sheriff's Department Patrol District Offices will be closed to the public from Dec. 21 to Jan. 10.
  Areas with closed lobbies will continue to provide services using telephonic and electronic communications.
  The Sheriff’s Department is mandated by law and the courts to provide some public services at its facilities. Due to these requirements, the lobbies for the Civ
  
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• Texas court: Compensate man wrongly convicted in cop’s death

  18-12-2020 20:35
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has ruled a state agency was wrong to deny compensation to a man who was wrongfully imprisoned — including nearly a decade on death row — for the fatal shooting of a Houston police officer. Alfred Dewayne Brown was eligible for nearly $2 million in compensation under state law after a judge in May 2019 declared him innocent in the 2003 slaying of Officer Charles Clark. But the Texas comptroller’s office rejected Brown’s applica
  
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• Russian military officer killed by mine in Nagorno-Karabakh

  18-12-2020 20:26
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian military officer has been killed by an explosion while working to clear mines leftover from six weeks of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday that officer died Thursday on the way to a hospital after hitting a mine on a road near the town of Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh. Russian peacekeepers were deployed to the region under a Moscow-brokered peace agreement that took force Nov. 10, endin
  
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• Pelosi, McConnell get COVID-19 vaccine, urge others to do so

  18-12-2020 20:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The legislative branch of government is rapidly moving to receive the coronavirus vaccine, with both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell getting the shot on Friday. The top Capitol doctor urged all members of Congress to join them. Both Pelosi and McConnell tweeted photos of themselves receiving the vaccine from Capitol physician, Dr. Brian P. Monahan. Monahan informed lawmakers Thursday evening that they are all eligible for the shots un
  
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• Bidens to get first vaccine dose on Monday

  18-12-2020 20:20
  
  Democratic National ConventionJoe and Jill Biden, Photo Date: 8/18/20
  President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, will be getting their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday.That’s according to Biden’s incoming press secretary, Jen Psaki.Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will receive their doses the week after next.The announcement was made Friday, hours after Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the highest-ranki
  
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• Mexico City, suburbs return to partial coronavirus lockdown

  18-12-2020 20:18
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials have announced that Mexico City and the surrounding State of Mexico will ban all non-essential activities and return to a partial lockdown because of a spike in coronavirus cases that have filled more than three-quarters of hospital beds. Residents of the capital and its suburbs will not be banned from moving about freely, but restaurants will be closed except for take-out services, many stores will be closed and cultural activities will be cancelled. Authoriti
  
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• Banner Chief: "Exponential Growth" of COVID Outbreak Putting Healthcare System at Risk

  18-12-2020 20:12
  
  Banner Health’s Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Marjorie Bessel shared alarming news of the spread of COVID-19 throughout the state at a press conference today despite the hopeful news of the vaccine’s arrival in Arizona.
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• 1 dead in incident involving migrant boat off Greek island

  18-12-2020 20:08
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say one woman has died and another two have been rescued from the sea off the eastern Greek island of Lesbos in an incident involving a dinghy carrying Somali migrants. Greece’s coast guard said 24 migrants who were located safe on shore early Friday told authorities that three women had fallen into the sea. Rescuers continued to search the area for traces of a migrant-trafficker thought to have also ended up in the water. More than 15,000 migr
  
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