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CDC offers new tool to check COVID-19 within counties

--CDC offers a new tool to check COVID-19 rates. If you have plans to go on vacation soon, but are wondering about COVID-19 numbers in the area you are headed, well the CDC has now dropped a new tool to…

Fire forces evacuation of 600 homes in Florida Panhandle

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Residents in 600 homes in the Florida Panhandle have been evacuated as a wildfire destroyed two houses and damaged 12 others, in an area that has spent the past three years recovering from the devastation…

Teacher accused of slapping student charged with battery

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana teacher accused of striking a student across the face has been charged with battery causing moderate injury. A judge on Friday found there was probable cause for the charge against 61-year-old former Jimtown…

Northern Calif. woman arrested, charged with faking own kidnapping

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California woman whose disappearance and reappearance set off a three-week search five years ago has been arrested on charges of lying about being kidnapped and defrauding the state’s crime victim board of $30,000. Sherri…

Lone officer tried in Breonna Taylor death acquitted

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A former Kentucky police officer has been found not guilty on charges he endangered neighbors the night he fired into Breonna Taylor’s apartment during a botched drug raid that left Taylor dead. The jury of eight…

A new Batman emerges from the darkness on Friday

(AP) -- A $2 million indie movie about a sleazy outer-borough punk on a wild night called “Good Time” is the thing that convinced director Matt Reeves that Robert Pattinson needed to be Batman. Reeves' film, which hits theaters on…

States launch probe into TikTok's effect on kids' health

WASHINGTON (AP) — State attorneys general have launched a nationwide investigation into TikTok and its possible harmful effects on young users’ mental health. It represents a widening of government scrutiny of the wildly popular video platform. The investigation was announced…

Senate hearings for high court nominee to begin on March 21

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee says hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson will begin March 21. Sen. Dick Durbin, the committee chairman, announced the hearing schedule on Wednesday as Jackson was holding her first meetings with…