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Kelsey Kremer/The Des Moines Register via AP, Pool/Facebook 27 May 2021 The jury in the trial against an illegal alien for allegedly murdering 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts begins their deliberation Thursday to determine the defendant’s guilt or innocence of first-degree murder. Twelve jurors, a mixture of men and women, are starting their deliberation over Mexico-native Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s alleged murder of Tibbetts in July 2018 in Brooklyn, Iowa. Bahena Rivera took investigators to Tibbetts’ body about a month after Tibbetts’ abduction and told invest...

Oklahoma’s driver’s license and testing system is in disarray, and there’s not a just single reason why.

Created: May 16, 2021 06:05 PM The number of Americans filing for unemployment fell to another pandemic low last week. It's the latest evidence that layoffs are easing as the economy continues to recover. But not everyone is rushing back to their own jobs — some in Minnesota are entertaining other options. While the world was shutting down during the pandemic, Minnesotans were busy filling out paperwork to open up their own businesses.  “When people get separated from their employers, whether it's through layoffs or any other circumstances, they will often go out and strike ou...

All activity centered on the National Guard training building at 63rd and Kelley. Gov. Kevin Stitt was living nearby on the premises while the Governor’s Mansion was being renovated, so the National Guard center was the epicenter of COVID-19 response in the early days of the pandemic. The Governor’s Solutions Task Force met seven days a week in the early days, all day long. Several of them sat down with KOCO 5 to discuss their work in COVID-19’s early days. “We had been looking and watching Wuhan and it became relatively clear to us that you weren’t going to stop the spread,”...

As a registered respiratory therapist, Rachel Maida spent the past year caring for COVID-19 patients at St Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon in the United States – challenging work that has taken both a physical and mental toll on the 48-year-old. The powered air purifying respirator (PAPR) she wears for 12 hours a day causes headaches, she said, and her mask leaves bruises on her face. She loves her job, but “it’s exhausting, day in and day out,” Maida told Al Jazeera, explaining that earning between $25 and $35 per hour, she is not compensated enough. That is why nearly a year ...