State officials spent the week racing to deliver a complicated package of federal benefits for more than 280,000 Washingtonians left jobless by the pandemic. The good news: most claimants who were getting federal unemployment benefits in December won’t …
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MIDLAND, Texas — Numerous West Texans were stuck on I-20 over night. Drivers reached out to NewsWest 9, telling us they were stuck on I-20 between Stanton and Big Spring and were running out of gas, food and water. Others say they are out of fuel and …
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BATON ROUGE – Hospital around the capital area welcomed their first newborns of the new year early Friday morning. Woman’s Hospital said baby Jax Friddle was born at 12:48 a.m. to his parents, Kirsten and Justin. Jax arrived on his due date weighing …
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INDIANAPOLIS — One Indianapolis family is celebrating after having the city’s first baby born in 2021. Annie Noelle Claus was born at 12:07 a.m. at Community health North. She weighed 6 pounds and 15 ounces at birth. Parents Staci and Joey Claus say …
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A federal judge writes scathing remarks about South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. That comes from Judge Charles Kornmann in his order in the filing in a case from Codington County where a man claims …
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