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Hurricane season is ending, but Dorian left a 'massive, massive crisis' in the Bahamas

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Almost three months after Hurricane Dorian became the strongest storm to make landfall in the Bahamas, the tap water isn't safe to drink in Grand Bahama. And it won't be drinkable until at least June 2020, Grand Bahama Utility Company says. When 23 feet of storm surge sloshed over Grand Bahama, one of the largest islands in the archipelago, it destroyed half the…

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Nov. 30– St. Paul firefighters spent much of Friday night and Saturday putting out a fire at the Gerdau Ameristeel plant at 1678 Red Rock Road. Firefighters have been on scene since 12:30 AM at a large fire in a commercial area on the 1600 block of Red Rock Road in Saint Paul. Vice President Mike Pence visited the steel mill in May to tout the United States- Mexico- Canada…

Nov. 30– St. Paul firefighters were still on scene Saturday morning putting out hot spots in a fire at the Gerdau Ameristeel plant at 1678 Red Rock Road that has been burning since midnight. Vice President Mike Pence visited the steel mill in May to tout the United States- Mexico- Canada trade deal, known as USMCA, that would replace the existing North American Free…

Nov. 30– Although medical marijuana is legal in Oklahoma, its status with the federal government as an illegal substance has clouded understanding of applicable rules and regulations. After the State Question 788 was approved by voters in summer 2018, the Oklahoma Legislature spent a portion of its regular session working out any regulatory issues.

From Nov. 1 to Nov. 23, data from Covering New Hampshire– a statewide effort that works with local health care providers and advocacy groups to bolster health insurance enrollment in New Hampshire– show 11,148 Granite Staters had enrolled. In 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services slashed the budget for health insurance navigators from $36…

Compare-autoinsurance.org has launched a new blog post that presents several tips that will help drivers get cheaper car insurance. For more info and free online quotes, please visit https://compare-autoinsurance.org/short-list-tips-getting-best-auto-insurance-quotes-online/. Drivers will need to shop for better car insurance deals in certain…

Cheapquotesautoinsurance.com has launched a new blog post that explains how teen drivers can obtain cheaper car insurance. For more info and free car insurance quotes, visit https://cheapquotesautoinsurance.com/how-to-make-teen-car-insurance-cheaper/. On average, teen drivers cost more than $1,500 on year to insure.

First it was the Easter Seals Academy for autism in Miami. After graduation, Brandon and the rest of his family– Van Lowe, his sister Renae Christopher and Brandon's stepfather, Roger Boucher– returned home to South Florida after a brief period in Georgia. Though Brandon developed friendships while growing up in Miami and Georgia, he always felt somewhat out of the…

Nov. 30– CHARLESTOWN– Quick actions from a teen down the street could be the reason 10 family members in Skyline Acres are alive today. Bailey Blanton, 19, was working on his brother's black Kia outside on Thanksgiving when he smelled smoke. He walked to his mailbox to see three doors down, a home at the corner of Constellation Lane and Sky View Lane had flames taking…

Nov. 30– Chris Kiskeravage, a firefighter for 30 years in the Lehigh Valley, has seen his share of incidents involving downed power lines. “The problem is electricity is always looking to reset,” said Kiskeravage, who on Nov. 18 became South Whitehall Township fire commissioner after previous stints as a firefighter in Allentown and Easton. Thomas Poynton Jr. of…

Data released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau October’ s 2018 Holiday Theft Report indicates that five of the highest vehicle theft days are happening in the next eight weeks. The keyless entry system was introduced in the 1980 s; 30 years later, smart keys, proximity keys, and push-button starting vehicles are just as normal as using a key.

Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, Illinois, has been assigned a patent developed by John Rugel, Hawthorn Woods, Illinois, for life insurance clearinghouse. The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser? Written by Ranjan Behera; edited by Sudarshan Harpal.

NTT Docomo issued the following news release:. NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it has developed a disaster-recovery solution for global telecommunications companies in collaboration with NEXSYS-ONE, a leading global telecom software-as-a-service firm headquartered in Dubai. The solution is now being put to test by mobile operator DOCOMO PACIFIC, a…

Washington, D.C.- Congressman Sean Casten of Illinois delivered the Weekly Democratic Address. In this week's address, the Congressman discussed the upcoming Congressional Delegation to the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid and the importance of the United States' leadership in addressing the climate crisis. “This weekend, I am proud to…

During a recent visit to Iowa, Sanders released a plan that includes immediately filling nearly 50,000 vacancies within the VA, spending $62 billion to repair and update infrastructure in VA facilities and loosening regulations that qualify veterans for VA care. To really improve veterans’ access to a wide range of care, Congress should abolish the VA system,…

Facing troubling episodes of anxiety and depression, a woman in her late 80 s recently called my office. After checking to make sure we accept Medicare, she was relieved to get an appointment within the week. She was evaluated, and we developed a treatment plan for her.

Republicans might finally have their candidate in the race to become San Diego's next mayor. Sherman, who represents District 7, which includes the neighborhoods of Mission Valley, Allied Gardens, Del Cerro and some of the city's other eastern suburban communities, did not respond to a phone call from Union-Tribune reporters Friday evening.

Nov. 29– It was common in Michigan in the early 2000 s for groups of seniors to pile into buses and travel to Canada to buy cheaper prescription drugs. While the number of drug trips to Canada plummeted when a new Medicare prescription drug benefit took effect in 2006, stories of patient caravans crossing the border returned to the headlines this year after U.S. Sen.