The bus was carrying tourists back to North Macedonia; the dead include a dozen children.
Deb Hardy
Staff Writer
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In the first holiday season with vaccines and boosters, case rates are climbing
As temperatures approach freezing across much of the nation, families are huddling indoors at a time when COVID-19 is accelerating at a disturbing pace.
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West Africa has highest numbers of child soldiers, says UN
A new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund says children in West and Central Africa have become the most recruited by armed groups in the world and have the highest number of victims of sexual violence.
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President, VP and spouses help food kitchen for holiday
President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, helped a local food kitchen prepare Thanksgiving meals for the needy before they leave town for Thanksgiving on ‘Nana-tucket’
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‘Glue me back together’: Online pleas to aid parade victims
Friends and families of the roughly 60 people hit by an SUV that sped through a Christmas parade in a suburban Milwaukee downtown say some suffered life-threatening injuries.
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Child is 6th to die in Wisconsin parade crash; suspect charged
Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, is charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide, and the district attorney says charges related to the sixth death and the more than 60 people injured will come later this week or next.
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Missouri man exonerated in three killings, free after four decades
A Kansas City man who was jailed for more than 40 years for three murders has been released from prison after a judge ruled he was wrongfully convicted in 1979.
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In a first, a major study will look at a simple blood test to detect Alzheimer’s disease
A promising test is being used in a major National Institutes of Health-funded drug study at 75 medical centers.
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‘Some’ killed, many injured when SUV plows into Christmas parade
A suspect was taken into custody Sunday night, said the Waukesha, Wis., police chief.
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Horde of thieves ransack department store near San Francisco
Three people were arrested while the majority got away after the large-scale theft Saturday night at the Nordstrom store.