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Local health officials are hoping to avoid a repeat of the spike in cases and hospitalizations after other holidays this year.

Health care workers are expected to get a COVID-19 vaccine first. But the speed of vaccine development, and the politicization of the process, has left some doctors and nurses skeptical and reluctant.

The mission will land, take a sample and return to Earth. It's the first such sample-return mission in more than 40 years, and it will tell scientists about the age of the moon and planets.

The incoming Biden administration has signaled that it is willing to consider some form of loan debt forgiveness, but critics worry it will not address the root causes.

An oil drilling rig holding more than 150,000 gallons of diesel, lubricating oil and hydraulic fluid has run aground near Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska, after it was being towed during a storm. The crew was evacuated before the rig was incapacitated.

With traffic down at stores and malls across the nation during the pandemic, the charity's iconic red-kettle campaign might bring in half the donations compared with last year.

The peanut butter and chocolate candy bar has designated 2013 as its 90-ish birthday. While there's a trademark document that dates back to 1928, officials believe the candy bar was first promoted in 1923. The Curtiss Candy Company, which was based in Chicago, made Butterfinger and also the Baby Ruth candy bar. They're both now made by Nestle.

Simon Han's debut novel follows a Chinese immigrant family in Texas, whose fragile peace is shattered after the father is wrongly accused of a crime, and it's up to the kids to restore balance.

In rural western Colorado, Mesa County has one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates in the state. But it wasn't that long ago that the county was considered a coronavirus success story.

Jorge Ortiz, a funeral home director in El Paso, is figuring out where to store so many bodies and how to hold drive-thru funerals.