One Nashville hospital was seeing a spike in patients being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning as people without electricity turned to fuel-burning generators, stoves, gas heaters and fireplaces to warm their homes.
In Irving, police advised drivers Wednesday morning to take it slow after officers responded to multiple crashes and traffic hazards related to the icy conditions.
Martinez and another man were charged in October with assault with a deadly weapon, accused of following the agents' vehicles and initiating the collision with Exum's SUV that led to the shooting on Chicago's south side.
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James Hill,
ABC News,
27 Jan. 2026
Lakeside's previous police chief, who also served as mayor, Robert Gordanaire, was fired after he and his daughter, the town clerk, were indicted by a grand jury for selling vehicles belonging to the town and pocketing the profit.
The latest changes include financial incentives for appropriate downtown commercial-to-residential conversion projects, including a 100% waiver of building and construction taxes and a 50% reduction of park impact fees for the first 500 units, as the office market continues to struggle.
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Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2026
It was unlocked because complexity was removed, incentives were aligned, and capital was forced to reprice assets independently.
This comes after a judge threw out parts of Paris’s petition in November, granting a motion from the executors that invoked California’s anti-SLAPP statute, which is meant to prevent retaliatory legal action.
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Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
15 Jan. 2026
Attorneys for estate executors John McClain and John Branca filed documents in Los Angeles court last Friday that listed all of the costs and fees that their clients are owed in connection to their anti-SLAPP motion against Paris that was granted by a judge last November, PEOPLE reports.
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Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Jan. 2026
Some of those people have been arrested directly by ICE agents while others have been arrested by other law enforcement agencies, placed on immigration holds within county jails and then arrested by ICE while being held.
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Juan Cordoba,
Arkansas Online,
12 Jan. 2026
Powell testified before Congress in June, saying the renovation was a collaboration with various agencies and that costs had changed over time.
By this decade, your body has started to naturally lose muscle mass, and putting on new muscle may be more difficult due to anabolic resistance, which blunts the muscle’s ability to respond to external stimuli like exercise and protein.
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Emma Loewe,
Outside,
1 Jan. 2026
Word games, information sleuthing, instructional videos, and even just chatting with friends can provide positive stimuli.
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