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By G BiZ Jan 27, 2021 Joe Biden is 6 days into his presidency and hes taking aim at the promises of racial equity that he made during the inauguration. Today Biden signed an executive order ending DOJ contracts with private prisons. The president also signed orders to address HUDs historical discrimination in housing as well as recommitting the federal government respect of Tribal sovereignty. Bidens commitment includes ending discrimination towards Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders. The NA...

Canyon News SANTA MONICA—On January 25, the Santa Monica Police Department announced that Rashad Devon Harris, 28, had been found guilty on six counts in connection to a break in and assault back in 2018. On February 23, 2018 at 3:20 a.m., the Santa Monica Police Department responded to a “check the status” call at 1700 block of 5th Street. Local residents of the building called the authorities in response to hearing a female yelling for help. When officers arrived on the scene, they f...

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer was joined by Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris at a press conference this morning to announce the prosecution of two business owners who opened up a Garden Grove storefront with the sole purpose of filing false unemployment claims with the state of California for people who did not qualify in order to steal taxpayer dollars intended to help those out of work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly $500,000 in cash and bank accounts was recovered durin...

LIVE BLOG - CORONAVIRUS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: Some N.H. Residents Report Delay In Getting COVID Relief Checks Update: Wednesday, Jan. 27, 12:20 p.m. Sen. Maggie Hassan is urging the IRS to address issues with federal COVID-19 relief payments sent to New Hampshire residents. In a letter sent to the agency Tuesday, Hassan said that more than 100 residents had reached out to her office because they didn’t receive the full economic impact payments and tax refunds they’re eligible for. Some S...

LIVE BLOG - CORONAVIRUS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: AT Thru-hikers told to stand down this season Update: Tuesday, Jan. 26, 10:01 a.m. Hikers are being advised to postpone plans to hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail this year due to COVID-19. The Asheville Citizen Times reports the Appalachian Trail Conservancy made the suggestion because it feels the pandemic makes long-distance hikes unsafe. Morgan Sommerville, regional director for the conservancy, says that as long as the pandemic...

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LIVE BLOG - CORONAVIRUS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: Six more New Hampshire residents die of COVID-19 Update: Sunday, Jan. 24, 5:30 p.m. State health officials announced six more coronavirus deaths Sunday, bringing New Hampshires death toll since the start of the pandemic to 987. The patients who died were all over 60, according to the state, and resided in Belknap, Coos, Rockingham, and Sullivan counties. The Department of Health and Human Services also reported 808 new COVID-19 cases, including 9...

Roswell Daily Record Archive Photo In an article by historian Elvis Fleming, published in the Daily Record Oct. 10, 1997, he wrote that Sam Ketchum worked two years on the Bar V Ranch, which was owned by W.G. Urton. The photos caption reads, "Family members from the Bar V Ranch head out on a family fishing outing to Mora Spring, July 4, 1903. The 25 people in the party represented 14 states, but not New Mexico — Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico Photo." Copyright © 2021 Roswell Dai...

Some staff members and inmates at Forsyth Correctional Center have received the coronavirus vaccinations, state correction officials say.

LIVE BLOG - CORONAVIRUS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: Governor Sununu extends State of Emergency Update: Friday, Jan. 22, 3:26 p.m. Today, Governor Chris Sununu issued Executive Order 2021-1, the fifteenth extension of the State of Emergency declared in Executive Order 2020-04, and Emergency Order #83, giving towns flexibility to postpone or reschedule 2021 town meetings and preprocess ballots in local 2021 elections prior to the enactment of Senate Bill 2. SB2, to be taken up by the NH House in Feb...