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Covid-19

N-V school mask rule put on hold

NORWAY — The Norway-Vulcan School Board on Wednesday delayed a decision on requiring all or younger students and staff wear face masks when indoors to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19. The board now plans to have a Committee of the Whole meeting starting at 5 p.m. Wednesday, again ...

Legislature seeks to limit Whitmer’s use of alert system

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republicans who control the Michigan Legislature want to limit Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's ability to send statewide emergency alerts to wireless devices and broadcast stations except for “immediate” threats. The Democratic governor's administration used a public alert ...

Wisconsin officials urge vaccines

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Health officials are warning Wisconsin residents to get vaccinated, wear masks and avoid indoor gatherings over the Labor Day weekend as the delta variant drives the state's COVID-19 case average to levels not seen in months. Wisconsin's seven-day case average stood at ...

Vaccine mandate blocked

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Western Michigan University from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine requirement against four female soccer players, ruling they are likely to prevail on claims it violates their constitutional religious rights. District Judge Paul Maloney in ...

Wife of Wisconsin lawmaker with COVID-19 urges vaccination

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The wife of a Wisconsin lawmaker who has been an outspoken critic of vaccine and mask mandates and who remains hospitalized with COVID-19-induced pneumonia is urging people to get vaccinated for the coronavirus. Republican state Sen. Andre Jacque has been hospitalized ...

Social Security, Medicare stay under pressure

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sharp shock of the coronavirus recession pushed Social Security a year closer to insolvency but left Medicare’s exhaustion date unchanged, the government reported Tuesday in a counterintuitive assessment that deepens the uncertainty around the nation's bedrock ...