Новости за 06.03.2021

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota lawmakers have just four more days to work out most of the details in this year's legislative session.

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) - Jury selection is set to begin Monday in a former northwestern Indiana mayor's long-delayed retrial on a federal charge alleging that he solicited a bribe from two businessmen.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - When David Alexander III opted to stop his cancer treatments last month, he wasn’t giving up on his life. He was making sure he could live it to the fullest.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - John Collins needed an excuse to get his girlfriend to look away from him.

KING GEORGE, Va. (AP) - Sailor Ben Katzman was handcuffed on Saturday for breaking and entering.

LERONA, W.Va. (AP) - Dustin Croy approaches his recipe creation process with all the sophistication of a highly skilled chef - which, in some ways, he is.

ATLANTA (AP) - Classrooms, dorms, cafeterias and stadiums are likely to be full again this fall at Georgia's public universities.

SELDEN, N.Y. (AP) - A 4-month-old puppy is recovering from emergency surgery at a Long Island animal hospital and his owner is under arrest after police said he beat the dog and then claimed the pet had been hit by a car.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Six months after Hurricane Laura wrecked southwest Louisiana, the Federal Emergency Management Agency still is trying to set up temporary mobile homes for several thousand families who need a place to live, with an estimate the work won't be complete until more than a year ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee advisory panel tasked with deciding in what order residents should receive the COVID-19 vaccine acknowledged that prison inmates in the state were high-risk, but concluded that prioritizing them for inoculation could be a “public relations nightmare.”

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama’s mask mandate expires April 9, but not the recommendation to wear masks, the state health officer emphasized Friday.

DENVER (AP) - Maria McLain Cox deals in uncertainty.

The longtime hospital chaplain has been with patients through chemotherapy and new diagnoses. She comforts couples who have lost infants, the families of stroke victims and people who were rushed to the emergency room and didn’t survive.

There are ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A giant rock jammed full of dinosaur bones continues to amaze Utah scientists as they slowly pick away at it to reveal its secrets, unscrambling what may be Utah’s biggest single discovery of dinosaurs.

CAIRO (AP) - Egypt’s president visited Sudan on Saturday, his first visit to the country since a popular uprising led to the military’s overthrow of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir in 2019.

Senate Democrats struck a deal late Friday to extend unemployment benefits with a $300 boost, allowing work on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package to resume after a roughly 11-hour delay.

KLEIN, Texas (AP) - Seven people were injured in a natural gas explosion near Houston, including one person who was flown to a hospital for treatment, officials said.

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff says he is “very skeptical” about prospects of people traveling at Easter but expects the situation will have changed by late May.

PLAINS OF UR, Iraq (AP) - The Latest on Pope Francis' historic visit to Iraq, aimed at rallying the country's dwindling Christian community after decades of war and unrest (all times local):

CAIRO (AP) - A trailer-truck crashed into a microbus, killing at least 18 people and injuring five others south of the Egyptian capital, authorities said.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - An old analog clock, hung crooked over the rolls of newsprint, let the night’s sparse crew know they had time yet until deadline. On a Saturday night, nearing 8 o’clock, it was still quiet in the reel room, beneath the dormant presses.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - The name “Declan” carries associations such as “man of prayer” or “full of goodness,” and for a baby of that name from the Panhandle, the prayers have been lofting to the heavens since shortly after he was born.

SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) -

60th anniversary of the Peace Corps: Service changed lives of Valley volunteers

At a time when the Peace Corps has suspended all operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic and recalled 7,300 volunteers from 60 countries - a first for the six-decade-old program - six former ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - As a teenager, Robert Lee Vann plowed fields with an ox under the scorching North Carolina sun. But he didn’t plant seeds of justice until he came north for an education.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - When 3-year-old Piper brought home a plant from her prekindergarten class at The Swain School last fall, she told her mother she named it Amber and started treating it like a pet.

ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) -

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Ron Brode looks over his extensive collection of recordings of memorable sports moments in the basement of his Altoona home.

Many people enjoy watching sports, and many people enjoy playing them.

Ron Brode has done both during his lifetime, but ...