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It’s been nearly four years since COVID 19 changed just about everything in our lives. We’re still feeling the effects, especially when it comes to your money. The Feds are cracking down on Millions of dollars in COVID fraud schemes. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] “Now the focus is more […]

Japanese rescuers battled against the clock and powerful aftershocks Tuesday to find survivors of a major earthquake that struck on New Year’s Day, killing at least 30 people and causing widespread destruction. Advertising Read more The 7.5-magnitude quake, which hit Ishikawa prefecture on the main island of Honshu, triggered tsunami waves more than a metre […]

Japanese rescuers battled against the clock and powerful aftershocks Tuesday to find survivors of a major earthquake that struck on New Year’s Day, killing at least 30 people and causing widespread destruction. Advertising Read more The 7.5-magnitude quake, which hit Ishikawa prefecture on the main island of Honshu, triggered tsunami waves more than a metre […]

Jan. 1—A man well known in Santa Fe’s music, theater and political circles has been indicted on charges accusing him of illegally withholding information from people who invested in his hemp company. A grand jury indictment filed Dec. 15 in state District Court charges Loveless Johnson III, founder of Amerigreen Organics, with six felony counts […]

Jan. 1—The Empty Stocking Fund is a long-standing project of The New Mexican. Each year, hundreds of people receive aid from the fund during the holiday season to help cover rent payments, medical bills, utility costs, car repairs, home improvements and other needs. Who it helps: Applicants, who must live within 50 miles of Santa […]

What better way to ring in 2024 than with a jackpot? It’s time again to check those Powerball tickets carefully, because the New Year’s Day estimated jackpot is worth $842.4 million, the fifth-largest in Powerball history. The winning numbers, drawn Monday, Jan. 1, are 12, 21, 42 44, 49; the Powerball was 1. The Power […]

For about two years, says 24-year-old Yan, a former Myanmar police officer, he risked his life pretending to serve the military junta while secretly spying for the armed resistance.     “I freed myself from unfair orders,” he told Reuters from a room in a town near the Myanmar border where he said he was taking […]

Miami cops swarmed Bayside Marketplace on Monday night following a fight between several juveniles, police said. Around 8:26 p.m., a large group of young adults— some possibly armed with sticks — were involved in a fight and later refused to leave the area of 401 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami police said in an email. Dozens of […]

JERUSALEM/CAIRO/GAZA – Israeli aircraft and tanks stepped up strikes in southern Gaza overnight, residents said, after it announced plans to pull back some troops, a move the U.S. said signalled a gradual shift to lower intensity operations in the north of the enclave. Israel says the war in Gaza, which has reduced much of the […]

Jan. 1—ELKHART — A Bristol man is dead following an early Monday morning two-vehicle crash in Elkhart. At 12:14 a.m., an off-duty Elkhart Police Department officer in a marked squad car called the Elkhart City 911 Communications Center to report observing a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed near Elkhart High School on […]

Jan. 1—One Spokane couple stared at the hundreds of people in front of them on Sanders Beach in Coeur d’Alene, nervously waiting for the last 10 minutes they had until they jumped in the icy cold lake. Daniel and Ashley Franklin were wearing their graduation robes. The couple had never participated in Coeur d’Alene’s annual […]

ADDIS ABABA – Landlocked Ethiopia signed an initial agreement with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland on Monday to use its Red Sea port of Berbera, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office said. The Horn of Africa country currently relies on neighbouring Djibouti for most of its maritime trade. “This has been now agreed with our Somaliland […]