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• Hundreds believed dead in heat wave despite efforts to help

  01-07-2021 23:58
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — As forecasters warned of record-breaking temperatures in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada, officials set up cooling centers, distributed water to the homeless and took other steps. Still, hundreds of people likely died. The death toll in Oregon reached 70. In Canada, British Columbia’s chief coroner says there were reports of at least 486 “sudden and unexpected deaths” between Friday and Wednesday. In Oregon’s Multnomah County, the oldest
  
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• Idaho will send 5 troopers to help Arizona secure border

  01-07-2021 23:57
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little says he’ll send five Idaho State Police troopers to Arizona for 21 days to help with border security. The Republican governor said Thursday that the troopers will start a 21-day mission on Tuesday to help Arizona law enforcement officials with intelligence gathering and investigative work to prevent illicit drugs from crossing the border. Republican Govs. Doug Ducey of Arizona and Greg Abbott of Texas sent a letter to fellow governors last m
  
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• Traveling medical technician who infected 46 patients with hepatitis C denied release

  01-07-2021 23:49
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former traveling medical technician who stole drugs and infected more than 40 patients with hepatitis C will remain in prison after a New Hampshire judge called his request for compassionate release “the least meritorious” he’d ever seen.
  David Kwiatkowski was sentenced in 2013 to 39 years in prison for stealing painkillers and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his blood.
  At a hearing Thursday, a judge denied his request to be
  
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• After years of deadly fires, PG&E again vows to do better

  01-07-2021 23:48
  
  SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric’s latest CEO is pledging that the future will get “easier” and “brighter.” But can Patricia Poppe deliver on that promise? It’s been a year since the nation’s largest utility emerged from a complex bankruptcy triggered by a succession of harrowing wildfires ignited by its long-neglected electrical grid. Tragedies over the past six years include a 2018 wildfire that killed 85 people and largely de
  
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• ‘Zebra murders’ convict dies in California medical prison

  01-07-2021 23:47
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man convicted along with three others in the racially motivated killing spree that terrorized San Francisco in the 1970s has died in a prison cell while on hospice care. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Thursday 76-year-old Jessie Lee Cooks was found dead Wednesday in his bed at California Medical Facility. The cause of death will be determined by the Solano County Coroner. Cooks and three other Black men were convicted of targeti
  
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• North Dakota law aimed at regulating PBMs gets support

  01-07-2021 23:40
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A coalition of attorneys general from nearly three dozen states and nine pharmacy associations are supporting a North Dakota law aimed at regulating pharmacy benefit managers. A trade group representing pharmacy benefit managers filed a federal lawsuit in 2017 challenging the North Dakota law. Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, negotiate with drug makers on behalf of health insurers, employers and unions that cover medications. A federal appeals court later ruled Nor
  
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• Scam Alert: Scammers pose as PCSD employees asking for payment

  01-07-2021 23:33
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Pima County Sheriff’s Department advised residents to be aware of scammers claiming to be department employees asking for a form of payment in a release shared Thursday.Several individuals have received phone calls from these scammers asking for immediate payment due to an outstanding warrant in their name.PCSD said they will never ask for any type of payment. Anyone who receives one of these calls should call 911 right away.The department said in order to avoid being scamm
  
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• Clyburn to push Medicaid expansion in series of town halls

  01-07-2021 23:32
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The third-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House is embarking on a listening tour to talk up the Biden administration’s federal aid package and push for Medicaid expansion in states that have not taken that step. U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn on Thursday laid out his “Help is Here” town hall tour, which kicks off Tuesday in Ridgeland. Clyburn said he will highlight the benefits of the $2 trillion American Rescue Plan. That includes an expanded chi
  
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• The Latest: Michigan to hold lotteries to raise vaccinations

  01-07-2021 23:31
  
  LANSING, Mich. — About $5 million in cash and college scholarships will be given away in lottery-style drawings aimed at raising Michigan’s COVID-19 vaccination rate, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Thursday.
  The incentive program features a $2 million jackpot, a $1 million prize and 30 daily drawings of $50,000 for residents ages 18 and older who have received at least one shot. Vaccinated residents ages 12 to 17 are eligible for one of nine four-year prepaid tuition contracts value
  
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• Enduring trauma: Arizona's Indigenous boarding schools will be investigated, Interior announces

  01-07-2021 23:30
  
  PHOENIX – When the Phoenix Indian School was established in 1891, the top federal administrator considered it a budgetary win to send Native American children to boarding schools to enforce assimilation into white society. …
  
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• Texas soldier who shot protester indicted on murder charge

  01-07-2021 23:25
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities say an Army soldier who shot and killed an armed protester after driving into a crowd demonstrating against police violence in the Texas capital last summer has been indicted on a murder charge. An attorney for Sgt. Daniel Perry on Thursday expressed disappointment in the indictment but expressed confidence that Perry would be acquitted. The indictment comes more than a year after 28-year-old Garrett Foster was was killed during a night of protests and unre
  
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• Deputy who shot Arkansas teen fired for leaving body cam off

  01-07-2021 23:25
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a teenager during a traffic stop has been fired after the sheriff said he did not activate his body camera until after the shooting took place. Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley on Thursday said Sgt. Michael Davis was fired after it was discovered he didn’t follow the agency’s body camera policy in the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Hunter Brittain on June 23. The shooting is b
  
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• Sheriff: Deputy who shot Arkansas teenager during traffic stop fired for not activating body camera before shooting

  01-07-2021 23:23
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Sheriff: Deputy who shot Arkansas teenager during traffic stop fired for not activating body camera before shooting.The post Sheriff: Deputy who shot Arkansas teenager during traffic stop fired for not activating body camera before shooting appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Army soldier indicted on murder charge in shooting of armed protester in Texas last year

  01-07-2021 23:21
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Army soldier indicted on murder charge in shooting of armed protester in Texas last year.The post Army soldier indicted on murder charge in shooting of armed protester in Texas last year appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• California sets Sept. 14 for recall election that threatens to oust Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

  01-07-2021 23:19
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California sets Sept. 14 for recall election that threatens to oust Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.The post California sets Sept. 14 for recall election that threatens to oust Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• California sets date for recall election targeting Newsom

  01-07-2021 23:19
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has scheduled a Sept. 14 recall election that threatens to oust Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office. The date was set by the state’s lieutenant governor after election officials certified that enough valid petition signatures had been turned in to qualify the election for the ballot. The election in the nation’s most populous state will be a marquee contest with national implications, watched closely as a barometer of the public mood heading t
  
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• Questions remain in wake of LA homemade fireworks blast

  01-07-2021 23:18
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massive explosion rocked a Los Angeles neighborhood as homemade fireworks were being destroyed by a bomb squad, leaving a trail of destruction, injuries and questions in its wake as the July Fourth holiday approaches. Seventeen people were hurt Wednesday night — including nine Los Angeles police officers and a federal agent — in the blast, which also flipped and damaged cars and smashed windows in homes and a laundromat. Experts say the explosion was highly
  
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• Hard lessons for lawyers in Cosby case; tougher for victims

  01-07-2021 23:18
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The public outcry over Bill Cosby’s sudden release from prison, where he was serving a sentence for criminal sexual assault, was swift, with #MeToo activists worried it would have a chilling effect on sexual assault survivors. But criminal law experts believe Pennsylvania’s highest court acted reasonably in finding that a prosecutor’s word should be honored, even by a successor. Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson called the ruling a wakeu
  
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• Woman: Officers didn’t ID selves in fatal Minnesota shooting

  01-07-2021 23:17
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The woman who was with a Black man when he was fatally shot by members of a U.S. Marshals Service task force during an arrest attempt last month said through her attorneys that the law enforcement officers were not in uniform and did not identify themselves as authorities when they surrounded the SUV with their guns drawn. Norhan Askar was on a date with Winston Boogie Smith Jr. and was sitting in an SUV on June 3 when Smith was fatally shot. Askar’s attorneys say
  
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• Wildfire consumes small British Columbia town that hit 121 F

  01-07-2021 23:11
  
  LILLOOET, British Columbia (AP) — A wildfire that forced people to flee a small town in British Columbia that had set record high temperatures for Canada on three consecutive days is burning out of control as relatives desperately seek information on evacuees. The roughly 1,000 residents of Lytton had to abandon their homes with just a few minutes notice Wednesday evening, after searing the previous day under a record high of 121.2 F (49.6 C). The province’s public safety minister sa
  
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• Israeli troops put AP photographer in danger during clashes

  01-07-2021 23:03
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers held an Associated Press photographer against his will during clashes in the occupied West Bank earlier this week, in a spot where Palestinian protesters were hurling stones and the troops were firing tear gas and rubber-coated bullets. The Israeli military said the photographer interfered with an operation and was detained after ignoring soldiers’ requests to move. It said soldiers moved him behind a barrier to protect him. The photographer says he
  
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• Rashad draws critics and dismissal calls for defending Cosby

  01-07-2021 23:01
  
  Phylicia RashadWASHINGTON (AP) — Phylicia Rashad has found herself embroiled in controversy after expressing public support for Bill Cosby’s release from prison, with some prominent Black voices calling for her dismissal as dean of Howard University's College of Fine Arts.
  Rashad played Cosby’s wife on “The Cosby Show.
  After Cosby was released Wednesday, Rashad tweeted: “FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!”
  Th
  
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• Atlanta police ID wounded officer and man they say shot him

  01-07-2021 22:58
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — State law enforcement officials have identified the man who they say opened fire on two Atlanta police officers as their elevator opened on the eighth floor of an apartment building. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says 29-year-old Joseph Lee Humbles of Atlanta was killed when the officers returned fire Wednesday. Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant says Officer Khuong Thai was hospitalized in stable condition after being shot in the face and shoulder. Bryant says another
  
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• Correction: Cross-Country Bear story

  01-07-2021 22:56
  
  In an article dated June 30, 2021 about a bear that was euthanized in Louisiana after walking from Wisconsin, The Associated Press incorrectly described a woman in the story, Sue Kline, as a local lobbyist for the Humane Society of the United States. She is not an employee of the organization but an active supporter. The AP also incorrectly identified the organization as the U.S. Humane Society. The correct name for the group is the Humane Society of the United States.The post Correction: Cross-
  
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• Flood Advisory issued July 1 at 2:53PM MDT until July 1 at 4:45PM MDT by NWS Tucson AZ

  01-07-2021 22:53
  
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a
  * Small Stream Flood Advisory for…Northeastern Pima County in southeastern Arizona…
  * Until 345 PM MST.
  * At 153 PM MST, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due tothunderstorms. This will cause small stream flooding. Up to 1 inchof rain has fallen.
  * Some locations that will experience flooding include…mainly rural areas of Northeastern Pima County
  Alder Canyon and Alder Wash areas is the most likely place toexperience minor
  
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• Lawyer: Officer reaches plea deal in Black man’s 2018 death

  01-07-2021 22:46
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An attorney says a white Nashville police officer will plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter Friday just ahead of his first-degree murder trial, three years after he fatally shot an armed Black man from behind during a foot chase. Attorney David Raybin made the confirmation Thursday on behalf of 27-year-old Officer Andrew Delke, who was about to face trial over the death of 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick. The attorney for Hambrick’s family says Hambrick’s
  
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• 2 public workers shot repairing sewer main in South Carolina

  01-07-2021 22:45
  
  SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say two public workers repairing a sewer main in South Carolina have been shot by a man who also fired on a deputy. Spartanburg Water officials say the man walked up to their workers near Cleveland Park in Spartanburg, asked them what they were doing and started shooting. The conditions of the workers was not released. The Spartanburg County sheriff says a deputy also was shot by the man but is all right. Authorities did not give any other details about
  
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• Biden to host naturalization event, push path to citizenship

  01-07-2021 22:40
  
  President Joe Biden will hold a naturalization ceremony Friday at the White House in which 21 immigrants will become citizens. An administration official says Biden will use the moment to push for more pathways to citizenship. The president would like to see the option of citizenship for immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, foreign-born people who have temporary protected status due to strife in their birth countries, and farm workers. Immigration has been a political f
  
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• The Latest: Hawaii extends virus vaccine incentive program

  01-07-2021 22:34
  
  HONOLULU — Hawaii officials are extending a vaccination incentive program to get more shots in arms.Hawaii Public Radio reports a second round of vaccine incentives will be launched this month. People can register for the second round of incentives beginning July 12, with new prizes include cars, cash and furniture.The incentive programs have been funded by local businesses.
  The state Department of Health says the state’s current incentive program contributed to a 30% increase in vac
  
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• CBO projects federal deficit will hit $3 trillion this year

  01-07-2021 22:30
  
  The Congressional Budget Office says the federal budget deficit will again hit $3 trillion this year. That’s $745 billion more than its estimate five months ago as it takes into account the cost of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue plan. In an updated forecast, the CBO said the deficit for the current 2021 budget year, which ends Sept. 30, will be the second largest in history but slightly lower than last year’s record deficit of $3.13 trillion. The higher
  
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• Trump-era law on surprise medical bills advances under Biden

  01-07-2021 22:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is putting into place consumer protections against “surprise” medical bills enacted in bipartisan legislation signed last year by former President Donald Trump. Regulations jointly issued by four federal agencies Thursday spell out protections for insured patients against surprise billing in medical emergencies, and unexpected charges from out-of-network doctors at an in-network facility. Out-of-network clinicians and service providers
  
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• Wall Street hits another record; energy stocks, banks gain

  01-07-2021 22:11
  
  Stocks are closing modestly higher Thursday, adding to the gains that helped the market close out its best first half of a year since the dotcom bubble. The S&P 500 gained 0.5% and posted its fourth-consecutive record high. Investors have been encouraged by data that show the economy continues its recovery from the pandemic. The latest weekly unemployment report showed the lowest number of claims for unemployment benefits since the pandemic walloped the economy. The highly anticipated jobs r
  
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• California poised to set date for election targeting Newsom

  01-07-2021 22:11
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is close to finalizing a date for a recall election that could oust Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office. Officials in Sacramento are inching toward completing the convoluted legal steps to formally place the recall on the ballot. Many expect the election to land in mid-September. Meanwhile, the Republican field might be headed for a major shakeup with the addition of conservative talk show host Larry Elder. Elder says he’s seriously considering a ru
  
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• NFL fines Washington $10M after misconduct investigation

  01-07-2021 22:08
  
  The NFL has fined the Washington Football Team $10 million and owner Dan Snyder is stepping away from day-to-day operations after an independent investigation into the organization’s workplace misconduct. The team was not stripped of any draft picks as part of the league’s discipline. Snyder says his wife Tanya will be in charge for the next “several months.” The investigation found ownership and senior officials paid little attention to sexual harassment and other workpl
  
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• Los Angeles passes measure limiting homeless encampments

  01-07-2021 22:08
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council has passed a sweeping anti-camping measure that will severely limit widespread homeless encampments that have become an eyesore across the city. The measure passed Thursday was billed as a humane way to get people off streets and restore access to public spaces in the city with the nation’s second-largest homeless population. It wouldn’t be enforced until someone has turned down shelter. If requires a second vote next month. Homel
  
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• Rescuers trying to free worker trapped in DC home collapse

  01-07-2021 22:04
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Emergency crews are responding to a report of a building under construction that has collapsed in the nation’s capital. Several people were reported to be injured. The collapse happened around 3:30 p.m. in the Brightwood Park neighborhood of Washington. Fire officials say the building was under construction and fully collapsed. They say at least one person is trapped in the collapse and emergency crews are working to free the person from the rubble.The post Rescuers
  
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• Judge orders release of Wisconsin woman in Slender Man case

  01-07-2021 22:03
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge says a woman convicted of stabbing her classmate to please the Slender Man character in 2014 can be released from a mental health facility. Nineteen-year-old Anissa Weier asked Waukesha County Judge Michael Bohren to release her from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute, arguing she was no longer a threat to anyone. Bohren agreed during a hearing Thursday and ordered her released, pending preparation of a release plan. He gave state officials 60 days
  
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• Greece: Fugitive far-right former lawmaker arrested

  01-07-2021 22:01
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A leading member of Greece’s extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party has been arrested in Athens, nearly nine months after his conviction to 13 years in prison. Police said Thursday that 59-year-old former lawmaker Christos Pappas had been living in an apartment registered under a different name. Golden Dawn was founded as a neo-Nazi organization in the 1980s and saw a surge in popularity during a 2010-2018 financial crisis that caused hardship for millions of Gree
  
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• Coast Guard: ‘Large’ oil leak during Georgia ship demolition

  01-07-2021 22:01
  
  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The Coast Guard says a large amount of oil has escaped a barrier after it was released while crews were dismantling an overturned cargo ship along the Georgia coast. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Himes said it was hard to estimate how much oil leaked Thursday, but it has affected marsh grass along the shoreline. Crews noticed the leak around 8 a.m. while cutting away a fifth section of the Golden Ray, which capsized in September 2019 with about 4,200 aut
  
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• Judge orders release of Wisconsin woman convicted of stabbing classmate to please Slender Man

  01-07-2021 22:00
  
  WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Judge orders release of Wisconsin woman convicted of stabbing classmate to please Slender Man.The post Judge orders release of Wisconsin woman convicted of stabbing classmate to please Slender Man appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Among Iraqis, the name Rumsfeld evokes nation’s destruction

  01-07-2021 21:59
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — News of the death of former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has hit far differently in Baghdad than in the U.S. capital. Rumsfeld, whose service under four U.S. presidents was stained by the ruinous U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, died on Wednesday at 88. Former President George W. Bush remembered Rumsfeld as serving with honor. But Iraqis link Rumsfeld with the years of violence that followed the invasion, as well as the torture scandal at the American-run Abu Ghraib dete
  
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• ‘She wasn’t a nobody’: Infant exhumed 30 years after death

  01-07-2021 21:58
  
  The body of an infant found in the Pascagoula River in Jackson County more than 30 years ago was exhumed this week. Jackson County Sheriff’s Department officials say they hope to discover the baby’s identity through DNA testing. Baby Jane II was one of two unidentified infants found in a Jackson County river in the 1980s. Last year, investigators were able to identify Baby Jane, who died in 1982. Baby Jane II was found in 1988 by fishermen. She was 3 to 5 weeks old at the time. Both
  
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• As US companies scramble to hire, workers enjoy upper hand

  01-07-2021 21:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With the economy growing rapidly as it reopens from the pandemic, many employers are becoming desperate to hire. Yet the evidence suggests that the unemployed as a group aren’t feeling much urgency to find work. How those two trends balance themselves out will likely set the pace for how many jobs employers can fill in the coming months. On Friday, economists expect the government to report that the economy added 675,000 jobs in June. That would be a substantial gai
  
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• Three found dead inside eastside home, police say

  01-07-2021 21:33
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Police are investigating the death of three people on the eastside Thursday.According to Tucson Police Department, officers responded to the 7600 block of East Toronto Street at approximately 7:45 a.m.Police say a friend of the victims visited the home Thursday morning --after getting no answer, the friend got inside the residence and found the bodies.
  Details are extremely limited at this time.
  Anyone with information is asked to call 88-CRIME.The post Three found dead inside ea
  
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• Pima County constable has been suspended for nearly 6 months

  01-07-2021 21:26
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Pima County Constable Oscar Vasquez has been suspended for nearly six months for allegedly refusing to serve an eviction while waiting for the tenant to find another housing option. Vasquez serves eviction papers and other legal summons in Justice Precinct 4. The Arizona Daily Star reported that the state ethics board that oversees constables’ performance asked Vasquez to resign from his position while asking the county Board of Supervisors to suspend him 180 day
  
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• Man who infected 46 patients with hepatitis C denied release

  01-07-2021 21:23
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former traveling medical technician who stole drugs and infected more than 40 patients with hepatitis C will remain in prison after a New Hampshire judge called his request for compassionate release “the least meritorious” he’d ever seen. David Kwiatkowski was sentenced in 2013 to 39 years in prison for stealing painkillers and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his blood. At a hearing Thursday, a judge denied his request to be
  
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• Biden misses vaccine-sharing goal, cites local hurdles

  01-07-2021 21:21
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has come up well short on his goal of delivering 80 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to the rest of the world by the end of June. The White House says logistical and regulatory hurdles have slowed the pace of U.S. vaccine diplomacy. The Biden administration had announced that about 50 countries and entities would receive a share of the excess COVID-19 vaccine doses. But an Associated Press tally shows the U.S. has shipped less than than 24 million
  
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• ‘Waiting is unbearable’: Biden consoles Surfside families

  01-07-2021 21:20
  
  Miami-Dade Fire Rescue on scene after the Surfside Building Collapse, Florida, Photo Date: 6/25/2021. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue conducting search and rescue operations in the rubble of the Surfside building collapse in Florida., Photo Date: June 28, 2021
  SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden has drawn on his own experiences with grief and loss to comfort families affected by the Florida condo collapse. The president told family members to “never give up hope” even as the sear
  
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• Robinhood wants customers to get big chunk of shares in IPO

  01-07-2021 21:17
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Robinhood, the trading app that’s empowered a new generation of investors, wants to sell a big chunk of its stock to those customers when it goes public, instead of just the big professional funds that usually get first dibs. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday, Robinhood also said that its revenue soared 309% at the start of the year and that cryptocurrencies are becoming a much bigger part of its customers’ portfolios. It’s p
  
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• Judge: Iowa jail must let murder suspect meet with lawyers

  01-07-2021 21:16
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge says staff at an Iowa jail must allow a man charged with killing a state trooper to meet privately with his lawyers. Officials at the Black Hawk County jail in Waterloo had refused to allow Michael Lang to meet with his lawyers outside of their presence. They argued that it would be a safety risk. Lang is charged with first-degree murder in the April 9 fatal shooting of Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Jim Smith during a standoff at his Grundy Center home. In a ruling
  
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