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Boston Public Library to reopen next month

May. 27, 2021 09:21 AM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Public Library is scheduled to reopen next month after being closed to the public for more than a year because of the coronavirus...

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press May. 26, 2021 12:38 PM EDT
Albany Times Union. May 24, 2021. Editorial: Time to fix these ‘Lights’ Paralyzing traffic. Families unable to get to...

Editorial Roundup: West Virginia

By The Associated Press May. 19, 2021 01:30 PM EDT
Charleston Gazette-Mail. May 14, 2021. Editorial: Mocking from pill suppliers upsetting, unsurprising To hear that...

Editorial Roundup: Nebraska

By The Associated Press May. 03, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Omaha World-Herald. April 29, 2021. Editorial: Landfill scamming revelation is a huge failure by Douglas County ...

Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press Apr. 30, 2021 04:42 PM EDT
Barre-Montpelier Times Argus. April 26, 2021. Editorial: Count matters The count is in, and it counted. ...

FILE - In this May 5, 2016, file photo, a Boeing 747-400 Global SuperTanker drops half a load of its 19,400-gallon capacity during a ceremony at Colorado Springs, Colo. The world’s largest firefighting plane has been shut down just as Western states prepare for a wildfire season that fire officials fear could be worse than the average year. Tara Lee, a spokeswoman for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, said via email Friday, April 23, 2021, that the state’s Department of Natural Resources was alerted to the shutdown of the worlds’ largest firefighting plane called the Global SuperTanker.(Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP, File)
Largest firefighting plane may be sold for COVID-19 response

By Patty Nieberg Apr. 27, 2021 04:49 PM EDT

Lawmakers consider whether to break up public health agency

Mar. 30, 2021 11:35 AM EDT
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers will hold hearings this spring on a bill to split up the state's sprawling public health and environmental...

Editorial Roundup: West Virginia

By The Associated Press Mar. 24, 2021 07:25 AM EDT
Recent editorials from West Virginia newspapers: ___ March 23 The Herald-Dispatch on the $1.9...

Gov. Hogan announces steps to speed up Maryland vaccinations

By Brian Witte Jan. 05, 2021 06:34 PM EST
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced steps on Tuesday to speed up vaccinations against COVID-19 to “get more shots into more arms.” ...

FILE - In this Monday, July 27, 2020, file photo, farmer Joe Marszalkowski holds a prosthetic leg that he found the day before in a soybean field on his farm in West Addison, Vt. The leg was lost by double amputee Chris Marckres while skydiving on Saturday. (Jack Thurston/NECN and NBC10 Boston via AP, File)
'Calamari comeback,' topless voter: New England's weird 2020

By William J. Kole Dec. 28, 2020 08:58 AM EST

FILE - In this Monday, July 27, 2020, file photo, farmer Joe Marszalkowski holds a prosthetic leg that he found the day before in a soybean field on his farm in West Addison, Vt. The leg was lost by double amputee Chris Marckres while skydiving on Saturday. (Jack Thurston/NECN and NBC10 Boston via AP, File)
'Calamari comeback,' topless voter: New England's weird 2020

By William J. Kole Dec. 23, 2020 09:00 AM EST

Workers lay a stencil onto material as they manufacture personal protection equipment for hospitals, on the Louisiana State University campus, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, in Baton Rouge, La., Friday, April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Louisiana shopped the globe for protective gear in pandemic

By Melinda Deslatte Dec. 19, 2020 08:27 AM EST

Ex-Hogan aide declines to answer questions about severance

By Brian Witte Dec. 16, 2020 06:56 PM EST
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers said Wednesday they will continue investigating a six-figure severance package and large expenses that a former chief...

Two Baltimore hospitals get vaccine, 5 workers inoculated

Dec. 14, 2020 04:09 PM EST
BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland's first doses of the new COVID-19 vaccine arrived Monday at two Baltimore hospitals as health care workers at one of the facilities...

Almost 3,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are stored in frigid temperatures at the University of Texas Health Austin Dell Medical School in Austin, Texas on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. The medical school was among the first four hospitals in the state to receive the doses and will begin administering them to select staff on Tuesday. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)
Vaccinations for health care workers begin in Texas

Dec. 14, 2020 10:17 AM EST

Boston joining other cities in again tightening restrictions

By Philip Marcelo And Steve Leblanc Dec. 14, 2020 09:09 AM EST
BOSTON (AP) — Boston is joining several other cities including Arlington, Brockton, Lynn, Newton, Somerville, and Winthrop in again tightening restrictions in...

FILE - Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham speaks during a televised debate with U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in Raleigh, N.C. Cunningham has admitted to sending sexual text messages to a California strategist who is not his wife. Cunningham apologized but said he would not drop out of the race in a statement to multiple news outlets late Friday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, Pool, file)
Democrat's personal scandal roils N. Carolina Senate race

By Brian Slodysko And Gary D. Robertson Oct. 06, 2020 05:24 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2020, file photo, a firefighter battles the Creek Fire as it threatens homes in the Cascadel Woods neighborhood of Madera County, Calif. This year's fires have taxed the human, mechanical and financial resources of the nation's wildfire fighting forces to a degree that few past blazes did. And half of the fire season is yet to come. (AP Photo/Noah Berger,File)
'Nothing left in the bucket': Wildfire resources run thin

By James Anderson And Matthew Brown Sep. 16, 2020 01:01 AM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2017, file photo, electrical power flow and conditions are monitored at the California Independent System Operator (California ISO) grid control center in Folsom, Calif. A heat wave baking California in triple-digit temperatures continued to strain the electrical system Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. But Saturday afternoon, the California ISO, which manages the power grid, said that it did not need to order power outages because the grid was able to handle consumer demand. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
Power back in California after brief rolling blackouts

By Daisy Nguyen Aug. 15, 2020 05:21 PM EDT

FILE - Ken Burns, director of the PBS documentary series "Country Music," speaks in a panel discussion during the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on July 29, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Burns says he has eight new projects in the works, including deep-dive looks at Benjamin Franklin, Muhammad Ali, Leonard da Vinci and Ernest Hemingway. PBS announced a new online home for all the work of Burns and other documentarians, a subscription streaming service that will start next month. Besides Burns' library, the service will also have work from "NOVA" and "Frontline. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
New Hampshire notables put out word about voting absentee

By Kathy Mccormack Aug. 14, 2020 10:19 AM EDT