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Teen charged as adult in connection with stabbing and robbery

A 17 year-old is charged as an adult in connection with a stabbing and robbery that happened in October in Spring Garden Township.

Carbon monoxide death leads to warning

A man is dead, and several others became sick after an apparent carbon monoxide leak in Blakely Monday morning at the Bodnick Street Apartment building.

Here are parents' top 10 concerns during the pandemic

It's been a tough year to be a child. The pandemic shut down schools, took kids away from cherished friends and helpful routines, and made it nearly impossible to visit grandparents or even play outside without social distancing restrictions.

Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs Awards $5M to the Creative Community

Houston creative community has been hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic as music venues and art spaces have closed. To help combat some of the financial strain impacting local artists and cultural organizations, the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs (MOCA) …

Firefighters warn Iowans to stay off ice after fisherman falls through

Officials with the Clive Fire Department warned Central Iowans to stay off the ice for the time being, after a fisherman fell through the ice at a pond in the city Monday morning.

Even Hollywood wouldn't have scripted the saga of Putin, Navalny and Trump

In the waning weeks of the convulsive Trump presidency, in the last days of the surreal year 2020, three stories are coming together to produce the kind of cinematic ending that -- like much of what we have experienced this …

10 years in prison for illegal streaming? It's in the Covid-19 relief bill

Tucked away in the more than 5,000-page long Covid-19 stimulus bill is a new law that severely punishes streamers that pirate large amounts of copyrighted content.

South Carolina governor tests positive for Covid-19

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster tested positive for Covid-19 Monday evening.

More than 1.6 million votes cast so far in Georgia Senate runoff

More than 1.6 million ballots have already been cast in Georgia's crucial US Senate runoffs with two weeks to go until Election Day -- most of them at early in-person voting locations rather than by mail.

Distance Learning, COVID-19 Pose Challenges to Educators, Administrators and Parents

In Southeast Los Angeles’s most under-resourced and predominately diverse neighborhoods of Compton, Lynwood, and Bellflower, David Anderson has served as an educator in the expanding learning and youth development space for more than 15 years.

Spoilers

The Houston Texans literally watched their playoff hopes vanish into thin air in Chicago last Sunday as they lost to the Bears 36-7 in Soldier Field. Now that they have been mathematically eliminated, Houston can still have an impact on …

County Commissioner Rodney Ellis Launches Podcast to Demystify County Government

Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis knows that the job of County Government officials is to meet people where they are and deliver to them the information and help they need as best as they can. Right now, that means meeting …

Georgia's Long History of Voter Suppression

Now that Donald Trump's baseless lies about voter fraud have been summarily dismissed by the courts, perhaps some attention can be paid to the true threat to free and fair elections: not voter fraud but systemic and massive voter suppression. …

Married couple, both teachers, die of Covid-19 while holding hands with their children

Married for 30 years, they died together from Covid-19 complications sharing one final embrace -- holding each other's hands and the hands of their children.

Former Houston police captain charged with pointing gun at repairman, believing he was a voter fraud 'mastermind'

A former Houston police captain was charged Tuesday with running a man off the road and pointing a gun to his head two weeks before the election as part of a baseless voter fraud conspiracy theory, the Harris County district …