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His Helping Hands opens for winter season with new commercial kitchen
EPHRATA — What started as a one-day Christmas coat giveaway for 35 people has grown into a community effort servin…
Police: Ku Klux Klan flyers dropped at homes
TULELAKE, Calif. (AP) — Some 15 to 20 packages filled with rice and Ku Klux Klan flyers were scattered around a small town in northern California near the Oregon border, according to police.
The Latest: South Korea enforces tough measures in prisons
SEOUL, South Korea __ South Korea has enforced its toughest physical distancing rules at correctional facilities across the country after a major cluster of coronavirus infections flared at a Seoul prison.
Bomb-sniffing dogs? Check. Times Square crowd? Not this year
NEW YORK (AP) — Gone were the revelry and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that typify Times Square on New Year's Eve, replaced by empty streets and an eerie quiet as the final moments of 2020 ticked away.
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Trump to return to White House early from Florida vacation
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is cutting short his Florida holiday vacation and returning to Washington on Thursday, one day earlier than expected for reasons the White House didn't explain.
NFL union president Tretter offers suggestions for 2021
NFL Players Association President JC Tretter is calling for the significant reductions in offseason work forced by the pandemic to continue in future years.
Knee injury ends Shelby Harris' breakout season in Denver
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Shelby Harris’ best and most eventful season came to an early end Thursday when the Denver Broncos placed the sixth-year defensive end on injured reserve with a knee injury.
Family says Dick Thornburgh, who served as US Attorney General and Pennsylvania governor, has died at 88
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Family says Dick Thornburgh, who served as US Attorney General and Pennsylvania governor, has died at 88.
Report: Ethiopian forces killed scores in June-July unrest
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian security forces killed more than 75 people and injured nearly 200 during deadly ethnic unrest in June and July following the killing of a popular singer, the Ethiopian Human Rights C…
Holmes, No. 20 Indiana women lock down Illinois 79-56
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Mackenzie Holmes scored 18 points, Grace Berger added 15 and No. 20 Indiana beat Illinois 79-56 on Thursday for its 11th straight win in the series dating to 2014.
Winning numbers drawn in 'Pick 4 1PM' game
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Oregon Lottery's "Pick 4 1PM" game were:
Diddy providing some COVID-19 relief for Miami neighborhood
MIAMI (AP) — Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs provided some coronavirus relief in a Miami neighborhood on Tuesday, handing out $50 bills amid a crowd of hundreds.
Petula Clark shocked that 'Downtown' played before bombing
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Singer Petula Clark expressed shock and disbelief that her 1964 hit “Downtown” was aired just minutes before a bomb detonated in Nashville on Christmas morning.
California passes 25,000 deaths, finds 3 more variant cases
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California surpassed 25,000 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic and officials disclosed Thursday that three more cases involving a mutant variant of the virus have been confirmed i…
'Columbo,' 'Murder, She Wrote' co-creator William Link dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Link, who co-created the hit series “Columbo” and “Murder, She Wrote” and made 1970s and ’80s TV movies about social issues then largely shunned by television, has died. He was 87.