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HENDERSON — With the COVID-19 pandemic getting worse around North Carolina in regard to loss of life and financial ramifications, many local organizations have put extra emphasis on ensuring that residents are cared for during the winter months. Among the churches taking part in donations is the Risen Faith Outreach Ministry, which plans to hand out 125 boxes of food this weekend after previously holding a similar event shortly before Thanksgiving. “This is the first time we’ve d...

Illinois House panel ends probe of powerful Speaker Mike Madigan By AP NEWS SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois House committee on Monday ended its consideration of a breach of trust claim against House Speaker Michael Madigan, voting down further proceedings that could have led to discipline against the powerful Chicago Democrat. The committee vote to authorize a charge against Madigan was 3-3, but Democratic control rendered the partisan tie a rejection. House Republican Leader Jim Durkin last su...

Derrick Smith, a resident of Third Street in Trench Town, St Andrew, yesterday revelled at the reality that he now has a bed that he likened to a Jacuzzi. Until recently, Smith, who is known to his friends and neighbours as Jookie Jam or Mr Colours, was living in deplorable conditions. However, thanks to the efforts of Trench Town-based charity Kino Life in Jamaica (The Dream Team), his situation has been vastly improved. "My house was refurbished about a month now. You should have seen the ro...

VANCOUVER - Lynne Smith's daily visits to a long-term care home ended abruptly after a COVID-19 outbreak three weeks ago but she jumped at the chance to work at the facility that is hiring family members so she can see her husband.

>> an important lesson for any parent with young children. the little boys on the line belongs to a four year-old livia jensen who was in collected during a 911 call that may have saved her mothers life, her mother diana suffers from lupus disease were unable to move or speak sunday afternoon she collapsed in her living room and cannot talk. this dispatcher has 24 years experience taking 91 calls, this afternoon the two were reunited with a hug and a few presents. >> she answered all m...

of saying they believe he might be. ... there was a ping from his cellular phone near this u.s. coast guard station 2 mi. north of his dormitory room and located near the party he was seen leaving saturday morning ... the search began last night it was called off when darkness fell and resume it this morning >>several fire departments have divers in this water using sonar to search for this student ... this search is underway in the water and in the surrounding area ... parents and rel...

things are going: >>essentially we are getting 20 additional minutes in literacy 15 in math ... we are able to implement recess for the first time ... 25 minutes and additional time in the resource preparation ... he likes the flexibility he has to utilize the extra 52 minutes of classroom time as he sees fit the veteran chicago public schools principal is fitting needs to his students most to live in the austin neighborhood here on the west side we spoke with science teachers here sai...

this person in a lineup. tonights nikki bostic jones remembered as a woman who really never knew a stranger described as loving and probably not just with family but to everyone. $15,000 check dropped off to her husband tonights consolation of little consolation for life lost in an instant a woman making her way to work >> she brought the best out of nate >> and james jones said goodbye to his 38 year-old wife at 1030 over the telephone it never knew it would be for the last time struc...

at this hour. the explosion happened at 25831 redstone in manhattan... a village about 50 miles southwest of chicago. we have no information yet about the cause ... or if anyone was injured. we will continue to cover this story, and bring you more details as we learn them. a cook county corrections officer is killed in a hit-and- run crash... now police are searching for the driver. wgns nancy loo is live near cook county jail... here outside the jail you can see a small memorial ... m...

has to be that and now >> pay raise teachers looking at 30 percent over two years school board offering to >> teachers want what is best for our children we hopes the city wants that definitely need to meet somewhere in the middle >> parents group rallied behind teachers today red ribbons and solidarity cps and while attempt for support letter went out to teachers accusing the union of misleading them about the proposal said cps not changing class size. cps chief jean claude brizard ma...