The City of Columbia has mailed out its annual community survey “to a random sample of households” to get feedback on issues ...

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Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk said Friday his Twitter buyout was temporarily on hold. Musk said he will conduct his own research into how many Twitter users are fake accounts. Twitter said in ...

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Stephen John Haslett is a member of the NZ Ministry of Health Covid-19 Expert Advisory Network. As a member of the Te Punaha Matatini research collaboration Richard Arnold receives funding from the ...

A lawsuit filed by a former state trooper fired after testing positive for amphetamines can move forward after a judge rules she has made “sufficient allegations” that her rights were violated.

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In a small sample size, Connor Brown has been everything the New Jersey Devils could have hoped for. Through five games he ...