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January 14, 2025
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Fentanyl fueled a record number of homeless deaths last year in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, according to an annual county report released Friday that officials described as showing the peak of the fentanyl crisis in the area. The report found that 456 homeless people died in the county in
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By JOE REEDY, AP Sports Writer Netflix is planning to provide plenty of gifts for viewers of its two Christmas Day games, including Mariah Carey kicking it all off with a taped performance of “All I Want for Christmas is You.” Yet, Netflix executive Brandon Riegg realizes it all amounts to a lump of coal
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A big shopping deadline is drawing near for some people, and it has nothing to do with the holidays. Millions of people use flexible spending accounts to help pay for health care, and some may lose money left in those accounts if they don’t spend it by year’s end. There are many ways to spend
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By Players to focus on are in bold. 2. Christian Jackson; Sr. DB, WR, ATH; 5’11” 185 Expected starter at free safety 2024 stats: 128 total tackles, 9 TFL, 3 PBU, 2 FF, 1 FR, 1 blocked punt 3. Jayson Franklin; Jr. RB, LB; 5’11” 205 Expected starter at running back and at linebacker Power
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KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The World Health Organization and the Rwandan government on Friday declared the outbreak in Rwanda of the Ebola-like Marburg fever over after no new cases were registered in recent weeks. The country first declared the outbreak on Sept. 27 and reported a total of 15 deaths and 66 cases, with the
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By TIM REYNOLDS, AP Sports Writer Patrick Mahomes threw a walk-off pass to win the Super Bowl. Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off grand slam to win a World Series game. Stephen Curry said “nuit, nuit” to win an Olympic basketball title in Paris, Noah Lyles won 100-meter gold by about the smallest margin possible, and
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BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday dismissed an assertion by Elon Musk that only a far-right party can “save Germany,” but said that freedom of opinion “also goes for multibillionaires.” Germany is expected to vote in an early election on Feb. 23 after Scholz’s three-party governing coalition collapsed last month in a dispute
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting,
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FARMVILLE, N.C. – Woven into Farmville Central’s DNA is the ability to meet the moment. Nine days after a 66-62 loss at West Bladen, revenge was on its mind. The Jaguars knew it, the Knights knew it, and so did the near-capacity crowd that poured in to watch what would be a 66-58 victory. Farmville
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Our prediction for this Segunda Division match: Cartagena Albacete Cartagena will look to make amends for back-to-back losses to Castellon and Granada when they take on Albacete in the La Liga 2 round 21. Los Blanquinegros have been struggling at the back of late and, as a result, the bookies see them as underdogs in
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