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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:

GameStop is considering selling some of its shares, a move that would enable the video-game retailer to capitalize on the massive surge in its stock price this year.

NY Buffalo NY Zone Forecast for Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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Zone Forecasts for Western New York

National Weather Service Buffalo NY

106 PM EDT Wed Mar 24 2021

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Niagara-

Including the city of Niagara Falls

106 PM EDT Wed Mar 24 2021

...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY

AFTERNOON...

.THIS AFTERNOON...Partly to mostly sunny. Warm with highs in the

upper 60s. Читать дальше...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An officer convicted of assault for kicking and kneeling on a handcuffed man is still on the force because a Rhode Island law prohibits his firing as long as the court case is ongoing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the memory of the pandemic's toll in nursing homes still raw, the COVID-19 relief law is offering states a generous funding boost for home- and community-based care as an alternative to institutionalizing disabled people.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Trying to save jobs as the pandemic pummels Vatican revenues, Pope Francis has ordered pay cuts for cardinals and other clerics, including priests and nuns, who work at the Holy See.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos called on the state's business community to “step up” and return workers to offices around the Fourth of July, joining Wednesday with the state Senate's top Republican in praising the state's coronavirus vaccination efforts.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen believes the U.S. government has more room to borrow, but said higher taxes would likely be required in the long run to finance future spending increases.

PHOENIX (AP) — A small town in Arizona has declared a state of emergency over the number of migrants who have been dropped off in Gila Bend, located 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's top higher education policymaking board pledged Wednesday to tighten oversight and enforcement of college policies against sexual misconduct, in response to a report detailing widespread failures in Louisiana State University's handling of student allegations of abuse.

The Golden State is lagging behind other states.

The city is seeing the most reopenings since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City University has announced that Kenneth Evans, the current president of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, will become its 19th president on July 1.

Emily Snook is the daughter of a Southern Baptist pastor. She met her husband, also a pastor, while they attended a Southern Baptist university

Investigators do not believe foul play is involved in the woman's death.

It's becoming increasingly clear that for Facebook, there is no returning to its habits of the past.

After signing with the Vikings, Patrick Peterson has punted on his Arizona home. He purchased the posh property for $2,692,000 in 2015.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods slumped 1.1% in February with demand in a key sector that tracks business investment also dropping.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States and countries around Europe are stepping up cooperation to respond to “aggressive and coercive” behavior by China, days after the U.S. and its allies launched coordinated sanctions against Chinese officials accused of rights abuses in the far-western Xinjiang region.

CARIBOU, Maine (AP) — Maine wildlife authorities are considering increasing the number of moose hunting permits offered by the state in an attempt to curb the infestation of winter ticks.

TX Houston/Galveston TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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Zone Forecast Product for Southeast Texas

National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX

843 AM CDT Wed Mar 24 2021

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Inland Brazoria-

Including the cities of Alvin, Angleton, and Pearland

843 AM CDT Wed Mar 24 2021

.REST OF TODAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers... Читать дальше...

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police in southwestern Kansas are investigating the death of a teen whose decomposing body was found inside a Dodge City home.

Stocks are off to a solid start on Wall Street as banks made up some of the ground they lost a day earlier. Industrial companies were also strong early Wednesday, helping to push the benchmark S&P 500 index up 0.5% in the first few minutes of trading. GameStop sank after reporting results that missed Wall Street’s forecasts, though the stock is still up more than eightfold since the beginning of the year after it became a social media darling for a swarm of online investors. Intel rose after... Читать дальше...

NY Binghamton NY Zone Forecast for Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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Zone Forecast Product for Central New York and Northeast Pennsylvania

National Weather Service Binghamton NY

935 AM EDT Wed Mar 24 2021

This is an automatically generated product that contains an area

forecast using an average of the gridded forecast data for each

zone. The forecast may not be representative of the exact

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Vaccine hesitancy and rates of COVID-19 spread in communities housing Alaska prisons are hindering efforts to lift restrictions imposed during the pandemic at state Department of Corrections facilities.