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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A second fraternity at the University of Mississippi has been suspended until 2025 after violating the university’s policy against hazing, a top school official said.

Stocks rose broadly in afternoon trading on Wall Street Wednesday, adding to the week’s gains ahead of the Christmas holiday.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mayor of Mississippi's capital has tested positive for COVID-19.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island woman whose adopted 9-year-old special needs daughter was found dead in a bathtub in the family’s squalid home in 2019 was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Wednesday.

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Chuck Robb and his wife, Lynda, were hospitalized Wednesday after a fire destroyed their northern Virginia home.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday turned aside efforts by five Missouri counties to reverse his ruling stripping local health departments of the ability to impose regulations aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19.

WHITEVILLE, La. (AP) — An online fundraiser had brought in $561,617 as of Wednesday — more than its $500,000 goal — for a Louisiana family that lost three children in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 49.

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Forty-three diesel school buses across Connecticut are being replaced with new electric buses, funded by $12.7 million the state received from a legal settlement with Volkswagen Corp. following an emissions cheating scandal.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, along with progressive and moderate Democrats, appears determined to return to the negotiating table with Sen. Joe Manchin, the holdout Democrat who effectively tanked the party's signature $2 trillion domestic policy initiative.

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three people have been sentenced to decades in prison in the shooting death of a pizza delivery driver ambushed on an eastern Pennsylvania college campus four years ago.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden administration extends pause on student loan payments until May 1 as omicron surge hits US.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of a committee searching for a new chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison says she wants to pick someone by May.

BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighborhoods and workplaces in the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in coronavirus cases, setting off panic buying just weeks before the country hosts the Winter Olympic Games.

SPOONER, Wis. (AP) — Officials in Spooner have reopened a middle school after a mysterious chemical leak in November triggered an evacuation and left dozens of students sick.

NY Burlington VT Zone Forecast for Wednesday, December 22, 2021

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.REST OF TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. South

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KINGSLAND, Ga. (AP) — A judge in south Georgia has temporarily blocked backers of a proposed rocket launching complex from purchasing any land until a court hearing scheduled for early next year.

SAUGUS, Mass. (AP) — The body of a Massachusetts woman who had been missing since last weekend has been found in a marsh in Saugus, authorities said.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine state offices will be closed until late Thursday morning because of icy roads and dangerous driving conditions.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The owner of a Lake of the Ozarks-area gun store has been indicted by a federal grand jury accusing him of illegally selling firearms to undercover agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose for the third straight month in November, driven by strong demand, low mortgage rates and intense competition for a relatively low number of properties on the market.

The jury deliberating at Kim Potter's manslaughter trial in the shooting death of Daunte Wright asked a judge whether the officer's handgun could be freed from an evidence box so they could hold it.