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• Cardiologist, anti-war activist Bernard Lown dies at 99

  16-02-2021 23:41
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Dr. Bernard Lown, a Massachusetts cardiologist who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later co-founded an anti-nuclear war group that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, died Tuesday. He was 99. The Boston Globe reports the Lithuania-born doctor’s health had been declining from congestive heart failure. Lown had helped advance cardiac treatment as a professor at Harvard University and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He’d
  
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• TPD: No suspect in custody after 37-year-old killed in southside shooting

  16-02-2021 23:35
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The 37-year-old who died in connection to a shooting that occurred on the south side Monday afternoon was identified by Tucson Police Department on Tuesday.According to TPD, 37-year-old Javier Alonzo Monge was found with obvious gunshot trauma at around 4 p.m. in the 700 block of West Silverlake Road near Interstate 10.Police said Monge reportedly was involved in an argument with a group of people he knew earlier that afternoon. The argument reportedly escalated into a confronta
  
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• 65+ Can Now Register for COVID-19 Vaccine Starting Thursday

  16-02-2021 23:30
  
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• Captain pleads not guilty to manslaughter in boat fire

  16-02-2021 23:21
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The captain of a scuba diving boat that burned and sank off the California coast, killing 34 people, has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges. Jerry Boylan was arraigned Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles on 34 counts of seaman’s manslaughter. Prosecutors say Boylan failed to post a night watch on the boat the night in September 2019 when a fire led to one of the deadliest maritime disasters in recent U.S. history. Each count carries a potential 10-year
  
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• The Latest: California restrictions could ease next week

  16-02-2021 23:09
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A substantial number of California counties could see fewer restrictions on business operations starting next week as coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths continue to fall, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday.California’s virus numbers continue to improve even as demand for vaccine far exceeds capacity.About 3.5% of people being tested for coronavirus are getting back positive results, Newsom said, a rate that’s dropped precipitously in recent wee
  
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• Ex-Ecuadorian leader Gustavo Noboa dies after brain surgery

  16-02-2021 23:06
  
  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Former Ecuadorian President Gustavo Noboa, who restored some stability to the South American nation during a profound economic crisis that produced political turmoil at the beginning of the century, has died. at age 83. President Lenín Moreno confirmed Noboa’s death in a tweet. Noboa died Tuesday in the United States following brain surgery. Noboa became president in January 2000 after a popular revolt ended the term of President Jamil Mahuad. At the time
  
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• Pima County opens vaccine pre-registration for people 65 and up after seeing drastic drop in supply

  16-02-2021 23:01
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - People over the age of 65 will soon be able to register for the COVID-19 vaccination in Pima County after the county's health department announced Tuesday that it will launch pre-registration for this group on Thursday.Back on Jan. 14, Pima County officially moved into Phase 1B of its vaccination distribution plan, vaccinating population groups including protective services workers; K-12, university and community college educators; childcare workers; and adults 75 and older.
  
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• Pima County begins vaccine pre-registration for people 65 and up after seeing drastic drop in supply

  16-02-2021 23:01
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - People over the age of 65 will soon be able to register for the COVID-19 vaccination in Pima County after the county's health department announced Tuesday that it will launch pre-registration for this group on Thursday.Back on Jan. 14, Pima County officially moved into Phase 1B of its vaccination distribution plan, vaccinating population groups including protective services workers; K-12, university and community college educators; childcare workers; and adults 75 and older.
  
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• Audit: FEMA paid for unused rooms for 2017 disaster victims

  16-02-2021 23:01
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An audit has found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency paid for unused hotel rooms and may have overpaid room taxes as it provided emergency shelter to thousands of disaster victims in 2017. The audit released Tuesday by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security examined a program that spent about $642 million to provide emergency lodging for nearly 227,000 victims of hurricanes and wildfires. It found that FEMA didn’t verify t
  
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• Biden rallies public to pressure Republicans on virus aid

  16-02-2021 22:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is making his first official trip outside the nation’s capital as president as he tries to refocus Congress and build public support for his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. He’s hoping Tuesday night’s CNN town hall in Milwaukee will help put the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump solidly in the rearview mirror and move attention back to dealing with the pandemic. The new president will be talking with everyday Americans in an ef
  
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• Mexico suffers another day of rolling blackouts due to storm

  16-02-2021 22:56
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have announced rolling blackouts that will hit 12 states covering more than one-third of the country as hundreds of factories are being forced to shut down. The announcement Tuesday marks the third day that winter storms in Texas have cut the supply of imported natural gas on which northern Mexico depends for generating much of its electricity. The export-oriented National Council of the Maquiladora Industry says as man as 1,600 hundred were shuttered
  
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• Mohave County authorities investigating jail inmate’s death

  16-02-2021 22:49
  
  KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — Mohave County Sheriff’s officials say detectives are investigating the in-custody death of a jail inmate. They say 37-year-old Christie Marie Fortner of Kingman apparently hung herself in her cell Sunday.  A detention officer was conducting rounds about 6:30 p.m. and made the discovery. Officers and jail medical staff tried to revive Fortner, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.  Sheriff’s officials say foul play isn’t suspected, but t
  
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• Millions endure record cold without power; at least 15 dead

  16-02-2021 22:44
  
  UnmutePlayRemaining Ad TimeAd - 00:00 NBC News Channel Deadly storm in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Feb. 16, 2021.
  OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. (AP) — A winter storm that left millions without power in record-breaking cold weather has claimed more lives. The dead include three people found dead after a tornado hit a seaside town in North Carolina and four family members who perished in a Houston-area house fire while using a fireplace to stay warm. The storm that overwhelmed power grids and
  
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• Florida lawyer whose pants caught fire charged with cocaine

  16-02-2021 22:28
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a former South Florida lawyer whose pants caught on fire during a 2017 arson trial is facing a cocaine possession charge. A Miami-Dade police report says 32-year-old Stephen Gutierrez was pulled over on Monday night for a broken headlight. Officials say an officer noted a bulge in Gutierrez’s pocket, which he thought was a knife. Police say the bulge turned out to be a cylinder containing cocaine. Gutierrez made headlines four years ago when his pants cau
  
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• US Virgin Islands probes helicopter crash that killed 4

  16-02-2021 22:21
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands are investigating what caused a helicopter crash that killed at least four people. Emergency management spokesman Erik Ackerson says the crash occurred Monday at the western end of St. Thomas around Botany Bay. He says officials are not yet releasing the names of those killed. The Virgin Islands Daily News reports that the Antilles School announced it canceled classes Tuesday because it is believed a senior student and his
  
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• Leaders of Iowa town jailed in long-running corruption case

  16-02-2021 22:15
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Years of corruption and mismanagement allegedly preceded the arrests of a northwest Iowa town’s mayor, police chief and three current and former clerks who are charged with theft and fraud. Officials in the city of Armstrong stole tens of thousands of dollars in public funds, falsified public records to conceal their wrongdoing and used city property for personal gain. Prosecutors allege in a court document that some of the wrongdoing dates back to 2013 and con
  
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• Stocks end wobbly day mostly lower; natural gas prices surge

  16-02-2021 22:09
  
  Stocks ended a tentative day of trading with mixed results as gains for energy companies and banks were offset by losses in other sectors. The S&P 500 ended down less than 0.1% Tuesday, and the Nasdaq lost 0.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average managed to eke out another record high with a gain of 0.2%. Natural gas prices jumped 7.5% to their highest level since November as a wave of extremely cold weather hit large parts of the U.S. Treasury yields continued to climb, pushing the yield on t
  
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• Home invasion suspect dies after 82-year-old man fights back

  16-02-2021 22:05
  
  JACKSON, S.C. (AP) — Authorities in South Carolina say a man accused of attacking an elderly couple in their home is dead after the 82-year-old husband fought back. The couple told the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office the man forced his way into their home in Jackson on Monday afternoon and attacked them with a knife. Authorities say the assailant cut a 79-year-old woman on her forehead before her husband stopped the attack by repeatedly striking the intruder with the butt of a firearm.
  
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• Spain: Protests erupt after rapper’s insults lead to prison

  16-02-2021 22:03
  
  LLEIDA, Spain (AP) — Violent street protests have erupted in some Spanish cities following the arrest of a rap artist who barricaded himself at a university with dozens of supporters to avoid prison and has portrayed his case as a fight for free speech. A 24-hour standoff between police and rapper Pablo Hasél ended early Tuesday when anti-riot officers arrested the artist and escorted him out of a Lleida University’s building. Hasél was sent to prison to serve a 9-month
  
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• The Latest: Colombia builds inflatable domes for patients

  16-02-2021 22:01
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia — A shortage of hospital beds during the coronavirus pandemic has led architects in Colombia to design portable, inflatable chambers for coronavirus patients that can be placed in gyms or parking lots.
  The domes — each 5 meters (16-feet) wide — can house two patients and are connected by inflatable hallways. Tubes help circulate air, which can cycle through 16 times an hour, according to the architects.
  Developers around the world have devised other inflatable
  
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• Vegas airport name change to honor former Sen. Harry Reid

  16-02-2021 21:54
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A county board voted unanimously to rename busy McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas after former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada. The all-Democratic Clark County Commission approved a measure Tuesday directing the county’s airport staff to file a change with the Federal Aviation Administration renaming the facility Harry Reid International Airport. The airport’s current namesake is former Nevada Sen. Patrick McCarran, who was known for his contributions
  
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• Governor wants to overhaul citizen arrests after Arbery case

  16-02-2021 21:54
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s governor is backing a plan to overhaul Georgia’s citizen’s arrest law. He’s taking aim at a statute scrutinized last year after white men fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man they claimed had committed a crime. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said Tuesday he wants to end the 1863 law, while still allowing security guards and store employees to hold people they accuse of a crime until police arrive. Kemp says the February 2020 killing of Ahmaud
  
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• Aargh! Tampa delays Gasparilla pirate festival until 2022

  16-02-2021 21:49
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — For more than 100 years, Tampa has held a celebration of pirate lore known as Gasparilla. Avast, mateys, it’s not to be this year. Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla launched the event in 1904. Now they’ve announced that because of the coronavirus pandemic, the next parade won’t be held until January 2022. Gasparilla is one of America’s largest parades, drawing tens of thousands each year to catch beads and trinkets thrown from floats. Some resemble pi
  
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• Investigators: No sign of arson at camp for ill children

  16-02-2021 21:48
  
  ASHFORD, Conn. (AP) — Investigators say they don’t believe arson was responsible for last week’s fire that destroyed a large section of Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang camp for seriously ill children. The fire marshal’s office in Ashford said the investigation was continuing, but told the Hartford Courant that dogs had not detected any signs of an accelerant in the rubble and there were no footprints in the snow around the buildings that burned. A camp officials
  
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• Biden heads to Wisconsin to rally support for virus relief

  16-02-2021 21:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is making his first official trip outside the nation’s capital as president as he tries to refocus Congress and build public support for his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. He’s hoping Tuesday night’s CNN town hall in Milwaukee will help put the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump solidly in the rearview mirror and move attention back to dealing with the pandemic. The new president will be talking with everyday Americans in an ef
  
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• FEMA opens mass vaccine sites as bad weather hampers efforts

  16-02-2021 21:30
  
  As part of a wider effort by the Biden administration, FEMA opened its first COVID-19 mass vaccination sites Tuesday, setting up in Los Angeles and Oakland in communities especially hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Severe weather, meanwhile, was hampering vaccination efforts in parts of the country, forcing cancellation of some mass inoculation events and disrupting vaccine deliveries. In two doses of welcome good news, vaccine efforts were increasing to nearly 1.7 million new doses adminis
  
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• FBI Phoenix seeks ‘Jeepers Bandits’; suspected of six armed robberies

  16-02-2021 21:28
  
  PHOENIX, AZ (KVOA) — This week FBI Phoenix announced its Violent Crimes Task Force needs the publics' help identifying the “Jeepers Bandits”.
  The FBI said the group is made up of four men who are believed to have committed six armed robberies in Phoenix and Glendale, Arizona, since November 27, 2020.
  The FBI said most recent robbery occurred Dec. 4. "The Jeepers Bandits earned their nickname due to their appearance and attire which is similar to Shaggy Rogers from Scooby-D
  
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• ‘A complete bungle:’ Texas’ energy pride goes out with cold

  16-02-2021 21:28
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Anger over Texas’ power grid failing in the face of a record winter freeze is mounting. More than 4 million people in the energy capital of the U.S. woke up Monday still without power. The outages follow unusually heavy snowfall and single-digit temperatures in Texas that created a surge in demand for electricity to warm up homes. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday called for an investigation of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the st
  
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• Sierra Vista seeks input on Citywide Parks Master Plan

  16-02-2021 21:27
  
  SIERRA VISITA, A.Z. (KVOA)-The City of Sierra Vista asked residents for their help shaping the future of parks throughout the city Tuesday.
  Residents have been invited to offer input on the development of a Citywide Parks Master Plan."The Citywide Parks Master Plan encompasses all City parks, from small neighborhood spaces to large gathering places like Veterans Memorial Park, which is the subject of its own detailed master planning process," the city said in a news release.To share their though
  
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• Millions endure record cold without power; at least 14 dead

  16-02-2021 21:25
  
  NBC News Channel Deadly storm in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Feb. 16, 2021.
  OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. (AP) — A winter storm that left millions without power in record-breaking cold weather has claimed more lives. The dead include three people found dead after a tornado hit a seaside town in North Carolina and four family members who perished in a Houston-area house fire while using a fireplace to stay warm. The storm that overwhelmed power grids and immobilized the Southern Plains carr
  
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• In ‘Barb and Star,’ an ode to middle-aged joy and culottes

  16-02-2021 21:15
  
  “Bridesmaids” writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo have always gravitated towards middle aged characters going back to their days at the Groundlings, but a few years ago they decided to start writing a film in earnest about Costco and culotte-loving “mid-lifers.” Both wondered at various points whether they were going to be the only ones who would like what they’d written. That anyone agreed to make it was the biggest shock of all. The end result, “Barb and S
  
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• The Latest: California opens 2 mass vaccination sites

  16-02-2021 21:13
  
  LOS ANGELES — California opened federally supported mass vaccination sites Tuesday in Los Angeles and Oakland that are intended to bring inoculations to communities hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
  The sites opened on the east side of the nation’s second-largest city at California State University, Los Angeles, and on the east side of San Francisco Bay at Oakland Coliseum.Each is expected to be able to administer 6,000 vaccinations a day by the end of the week. Each will also have
  
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• Some dinosaur migration was delayed by climate, study shows

  16-02-2021 21:10
  
  A new study finds plant-eating dinosaurs arrived in the Northern Hemisphere millions of years after their meat-eating cousins. And scientists think they know the reason: climate change. It was brutally hot and dry 230 million years ago with two desert belts above and below the equator. That made it hard for plants to survive in the deserts. So the plant-eating dinosaurs couldn’t get through while meat-eating dinosaurs could by feasting on insects. Scientists think that only when carbon dio
  
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• Survey: Black Americans attend church and pray more often

  16-02-2021 21:03
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Black Americans attend church more regularly than Americans overall, and pray more often. Most attend churches that are predominantly Black, yet many would like those congregations to become racially diverse. Those are among key findings in a Pew Research Center survey of 8,660 Black adults nationwide about their religious experiences. Pew found there is broad respect for the historical role Black churches have played in seeking racial equality, coupled with a widespread pe
  
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• Winter storm keeps nation in deep freeze, claims more lives

  16-02-2021 20:58
  
  NBC News Channel Deadly storm in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Feb. 16, 2021.
  OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. (AP) — A winter storm that left millions without power in record-breaking cold weather has claimed more lives. The dead include three people found dead after a tornado hit a seaside town in North Carolina and four family members who perished in a Houston-area house fire while using a fireplace to stay warm. The storm that overwhelmed power grids and immobilized the Southern Plains carr
  
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• Unequal Access: With limited vaccine supply, minority and low-income residents of Pima County face challenges in getting a shot

  16-02-2021 20:57
  
  Pima County’s vaccine allocation from the state has been cut once again, making it even more difficult to reach the populations who need it most.
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• US vows to help Iraq promote stability in face of `enemies’

  16-02-2021 20:52
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The new U.S. administration says a top priority in Iraq is to help the country assert its sovereignty and promote stability “in the face of enemies.” U.S. deputy ambassador Richard Mills said this means preventing a resurgence of Islamic State group extremists and addressing destabilizing activities of Iran and Iranian-backed militias. He told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s administration “supports a strategic p
  
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• The Latest: US regulators to review bulk-power operations

  16-02-2021 20:52
  
  The Latest on winter weather across the U.S. (all times local):
  WASHINGTON — Federal regulators say they are launching an “inquiry” into the operations of the bulk-power system during the severe winter storm that left millions without power in subfreezing temperatures in Texas and other states.
  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation announced the inquiry Tuesday.Officials said the immediate emphasis will remain on restor
  
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• Riot lawsuit just part of Trump’s post-impeachment problems

  16-02-2021 20:52
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump faces more legal trouble now that his impeachment trial is over. A Democratic congressman filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Trump of conspiring with far-right extremists in the Capitol riot, and the attorney general of Washington, D.C., is weighing charges over the riot as well. He faces ongoing scrutiny from prosecutors over investigations into election interference in 2016 and 2020 as well as his business dealings in New York. And judges have
  
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• Watchdog files lawsuit against group backing Iowa Sen. Ernst

  16-02-2021 20:45
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An election watchdog group has filed a federal lawsuit in Washington claiming the Iowa-based nonprofit organization Iowa Values violated election laws by failing to register as a political committee while spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the reelection of Sen. Joni Ernst. Campaign Legal Center, a Washington-based nonprofit campaign finance watchdog group, filed the lawsuit on Friday. The lawsuit asks a federal judge to declare that Iowa Values be
  
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• Remains of Arizona woman ID’d; Murder suspect died in prison

  16-02-2021 20:40
  
  KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities have identified human remains as an Arizona woman reported missing in 2015, but say the main suspect in her death died in prison last year. Mohave County Sheriff’s officials say skeletal remains were found in a remote area of Topock in May 2019 and were positively identified in December 2020 as those of Nancy Hartz. Authorities say Hartz was last seen with Robert Lawson Carnochan of Lake Havasu City.  Carnochan was arrested in April 2016 on frau
  
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• Help needed after dog left for dead in the streets of Mexico

  16-02-2021 20:37
  
  Southwest Oasis Lab Rescue
  TUCSON (KVOA) - A dog left for dead on the streets of Mexico is getting a second chance at life.Sawyer was found nearly starved to death and suffering from tick fever in Hermosillo. The Southwest Oasis Labrador Rescue (SOLR)helped place him infoster home and nurse him back to health.He went from skin and bones to a happy, healthy pup.It looked like a happy ending for the lab when he was adopted. But after just a couple of days with his new family, Sawyer was hit with
  
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• US stock indexes turn mixed, natural gas prices surge

  16-02-2021 20:36
  
  Stock indexes are mixed in afternoon trading Tuesday, shedding some of their gains from earlier in the day. Losses in health care and technology stocks kept gains in energy and other sectors in check. Energy companies that stand to benefit from record electricity prices due to the frigid cold impacting much of the country surged. Investors remain steadily focused on economic stimulus talks in Washington, which are marching forward now with former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment
  
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• 4 die in house fire during Texas power outage

  16-02-2021 20:34
  
  NBC News ChannelSugar Land, TexasHOUSTON — A fire official says three young children and their grandmother died in a Houston-area house fire early Tuesday morning while it’s believed they were trying to stay warm during a power outage.Sugar Land Fire and EMS spokesman Doug Adolph said that when firefighters arrived after the call at about 2 a.m., the house was fully engulfed and the 41-year-old mother of the children and her female friend were outside of the home and suffering from
  
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• The Latest: COVID puts damper on Mardi Gras in New Orleans

  16-02-2021 20:12
  
  NEW ORLEANS — Mardi Gras joy is muted this year in New Orleans as authorities seek to stifle the spread of the coronavirus.Bars were forced to close during the final weekend of the season, parades that generally start 12 days before the big day have been stilled, and Mayor LaToya Cantrell is promising a crackdown on large crowds.Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the annual pre-Lenten bash celebrated along much of the Gulf Coast, with the biggest bashes in heavily Catholic New Orleans. Last ye
  
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• Judge: Teen charged with killing 5 relatives to stay jailed

  16-02-2021 20:07
  
  ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — A judge has ruled that an Alabama teenager charged with killing five family members will remain jailed pending trial. Defense attorneys had asked that 16-year-old Mason Sisk be transferred to a juvenile detention center, but Limestone County Circuit Judge Bob Baker denied their request. Sisk is charged with capital murder in the 2019 slayings of his parents and three siblings aged 6, 5 and 6 months. Authorities say Sisk shot his family and then called 911 to report the
  
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• Dem’s lawsuit accuses Trump of inciting deadly Capitol riot

  16-02-2021 20:07
  
  ZUMA / MGNTrump supporters stand on the U.S. Capitol Police armored vehicle as others take over the steps of the Capitol, Photo Date: 1/6/21
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Homeland Security chairman has sued Donald Trump, accusing him of inciting the  deadly insurrection at the Capitol. Democrat Bennie Thompson alleges that Trump conspired with members of far-right extremist groups to try to prevent Congress from certifying the presidential election results.  The federal court laws
  
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• Young Florida boy escapes trash truck blade thanks to driver

  16-02-2021 20:01
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A young Florida boy was nearly crushed inside a garbage truck when the can he was hiding in was emptied into the truck. The boy told Tampa television station WFLA that he thought he was going to become a “mashed potato.” The driver was monitoring the truck and saw something unusual drop in. He stopped the blade and called 911. The boy was playing outside his grandmother’s house when he decided to hide in the can. His grandmother was thankful for the dri
  
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• The Latest: 4 die in house fire during Texas power outage

  16-02-2021 19:54
  
  The Latest on winter weather across the U.S. (all times local):
  HOUSTON — A fire official says three young children and their grandmother died in a Houston-area house fire early Tuesday morning while it’s believed they were trying to stay warm during a power outage.
  Sugar Land Fire and EMS spokesman Doug Adolph said that when firefighters arrived after the call at about 2 a.m., the house was fully engulfed and the 41-year-old mother of the children and her female friend were outside
  
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• Overnight fire kills 100 animals at Indianapolis pet store

  16-02-2021 19:50
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Fire officials say an estimated 100 animals died in a fire at an Indianapolis pet store. The Indianapolis Fire Department says it took firefighters about an hour to extinguish the blaze at Uncle Bills Pet Center on Monday night because they had difficulty accessing the fire in the building’s back roof area. Battalion Chief Rita Reith said in a news release that after firefighters doused the flames, they discovered “a horrible tragedy” inside. About 40
  
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