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Isabelle Papadimitriou was finally a grandma. The baby girl, Lua, was born in August 2019 in Brooklyn. Though Papadimitriou lived in Coppell and worked as a respiratory therapist in Dallas, she’d been able to visit her granddaughter in New York twice, and in June 2020, she was eager to visit again. “Lua was her everything; it was all about Lua,” says Fiana Tulip, Papadimitriou’s daughter and Lua’s mother. Then, COVID-19 cases spiked in Texas and the trip no longer felt safe. They called it off, and the 64-year-old Papadimitriou started to put in extra shifts at work instead. Later t...

Published on The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources hosted a virtual public meeting last week to report on research that has been conducted by Vermont Fish and Wildlife scientists, investigating the cause of melanoma lesions in the Brown Bullhead population in Lake Memphremagog. The meeting was recorded and can be found online. The cancerous fish were first identified by anglers in 2012, who reported their findings to Fish and Game. A study was undertaken by United States Geological Survey and Vermont Dept. of Fish and Wildlife in 2014 and was publis...

>> kelly: it's the largest masses grave ever uncovered and 17 more bodies. is there a civil war going on in mexico? >> heather: we begin with flooding crisis along the sppt river. the army corps of engineers opening two more floodgates on the louisiana spillway bringing the total to four. it's to help save major cities like new orleans and baton rouge from flooding. people in small towns and farms living in the path, they are bracesing for the worst. now scrambling for higher ground. rick levy an had that will -- levanthal has more? >> we're at the new edge of the mississippi river. the typica...

Of these homes and businesses. it man a losing battle. again, the river has not yet crested and no one is quite sure when it will be. >> heather: 25,000 people will be affected. i want to ask you, all those people standing around you, are they people that live in the area. >> reporter: any you guys local residents, checking it out and taking pictures? is your home affected at all? no. >> high and dry. >> reporter: majority of people out of harm's way, but we saw people packing up and leaving their homes today. in fact, one of the towns we were in earlier had a mandatory evacuation order just t...