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The coronavirus nearly shut down global student travel.

Cattle outnumber people in Nebraska by more than 3-to-1, and more than half of the state’s land mass is devoted to cattle.

Three cars driven by drunk drivers crashed into each other at the intersection of Highway 31 and Highway 32 in Mount Pleasant early Sunday morning, according to the Mount Pleasant Police Department.

Bedrock Bee can only watch as the garden he helped plant at the epicenter of Richmond’s racial justice movement last year fades. • An 8-foot-tall fence stands between him and the land, informally renamed Marcus-David Peters Circle for a Black high school teacher fatally shot, while in a mental health crisis, by a Richmond police officer. • The state erected the barrier a month ago last week in the name of progress toward racial justice, preparing for the removal of the last Confederate statue standing on Monument Avenue. In the process, it shut Bee out of a space Black and brown people had reclaimed for healing.

Decentralized planning between state and federal governments left chronically underfunded public health departments to organize mass testing efforts when there were few supplies in the first few months of the pandemic.

When power went out last week and stayed out at Antoinette Dombroski’s house along Stan Schlueter Loop in Killeen, she and her husband broke out the camping gear to try and keep the kids and pets warm, and cook everyone some dinner.

It was a rough night for a tow truck operator in the Town of Norway, as the tow truck lost control of a disabled snowplow it was towing and the snowplow landed on its side in a roundabout.

Nearly 20,000 electric customers in the Killeen area — just under 30% of all customers served in the Killeen area — remained without power Tuesday, and there is no timetable for its return.

When Olivia Lewis was 21 years old and a senior at Virginia Commonwealth University, she suffered a massive brainstem stroke in her Fan apartment and almost died.

Westside Middle School officials apologized to the Jewish community and students for displaying an Adolf Hitler quote as a 'quote of the day.'

The Department of General Services announced that workers on Monday will install fencing around the Lee Monument in Richmond as part of the department's plan to prepare to remove the statue. The department also made clear that the statue won't be removed Monday. 

Chris Spencer's father says his son told him that he was swept along with the crowd when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 but that his son caused no property damage.

Employers told nearly 800 Realtors and credit union workers in the Richmond area they could sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine that federal and state guidance said they’re ineligible to receive. More than 400 were scheduled for a vaccination event Sunday while thousands of health care workers, teachers and long-term care residents continue to wait for doses that are in short supply.