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JACKSON, Miss. - Roughly 150,000 people are still without safe drinking water in Mississippi’s capital city days after Jackson’s water system partially failed. The situation is so dire, Mississippi officials are telling residents to shower with their mouths closed."You can shower or bathe, but please make sure in the shower that your mouth is not open," Jim Craig, Mississippi’s Director of Health Protection, said at a Wednesday news conference.The city water system partially failed early this week after Pearl River flooding exacerbated longstanding problems in one of two water-treatment plants.Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba said Jackson’s water system is troubled by short staffing and "decades of deferred maintenance." He said the influx of water from torrential rain changed the chemical composition needed for treatment, which slowed the process of pushing water out to customers.A city news release said the main water-treatment plant had "challenges with water chemistry" Wednesday, which led to a drop in output of water.

FILE - A police patrol car sits in a neighborhood. ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Authorities in Allentown are investigating the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man. The Lehigh County District Attorney's Office says Najeer T.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A bill that would have blocked California state prisons from transferring inmates to federal immigration custody was failing as lawmakers prepared to adjourn Wednesday.Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed similar legislation in 2019, saying then that it could "negatively impact prison operations." It also faced stiff opposition from law enforcement organizations, with the California Police Chiefs Association calling it "a major threat to public safety."State law prohibits local police and sheriffs from cooperating with U.S.

FILE - Oakland police investigate a double shooting in East Oakland, Calif., on June 29, 2022. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images) DETROIT - About 2 in 10 U.S.

Close-up shot of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shot being administered in Freeport, New York on November 30, 2021. (Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the yearly flu shot.That’s at the heart of its campaign to sell the newly authorized shot to an American public that has widely rejected COVID-19 boosters since they first became available last fall.Shots of the updated boosters, specifically designed by Pfizer and Moderna to respond to the omicron strain, could start within days.

PHILADELPHIA - Thursday marks one year since Category 4 Hurricane Ida tore through the East Coast, bringing devastation and damage to the Delaware Valley. According to FOX Weather, the storm made landfall in Grand Isle, Louisiana, before moving along the East Coast, dumping more than 10 inches of rain across Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

Omicron are more transmissible than their predecessors, & the risk of even more transmissible & more dangerous variants remains," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during the weekly media briefing regarding COVID on Wednesday."Subvariants of Omicron are more transmissible than their predecessors, & the risk of even more transmissible & more dangerous variants remains. Meanwhile, vaccination coverage among the most at-risk people remains too low, especially in low-income countries"-@DrTedros #COVID19 He further alerted that the cases are likely to rise again in the coming months. “We are now seeing a welcome decline in reported COVID deaths globally.

Florida was sentenced to life in prison on Monday following the death of her 18-month-old son from malnutrition.Sheila O’Leary, 38, was convicted of six charges in June: first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, child abuse and two counts of child neglect. Florida man allegedly tried to ‘purchase’ girl from parents for $100K at grocery store O’Leary and her husband, both of whom are strict vegans, fed their 18-month-old child Ezra only raw fruits and vegetables and breast milk, The Associated Press reported.The husband, Ryan O’Leary, is currently in jail awaiting trial for the same six charges.The couple have two other children ages three and five, the Cape Coral Police Department reported.

bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, making it the first vaccine specifically targeting the Omicron variant to get approval for the Canadian market.According to the drug authorization listing, the bivalent booster will be a half-dose of the amount delivered in the primary doses of the vaccine, keeping it in line with the dose delivered in boosters so far.The Omicron booster is authorized only for Canadians over the age of 18 at this time.Side effects are listed as “mild” and similar to those experienced with the regular booster doses: muscle aches, chills, headache, fever and pain at the injection site. Omicron-adapted COVID-19 vaccines: Could updated shots prevent a fall wave? Moderna, which submitted its bivalent vaccine candidate to Health Canada in June, said at the time that trial data showed when given as a fourth dose, its variant-adapted shot raised virus-neutralizing antibodies by eight-fold against Omicron.Ottawa has signed an agreement with Moderna to provide 12 million doses of its updated shot for 2022 and 2023.

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CHELTENHAM TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Cheltenham Township Police are investigating a double shooting that left two people injured on Thursday. According to police, the shooting happened around 2:21 a.m.

PHILADELPHIA - The man who fatally shot a coworker at Jefferson University Hospital last October has been sentenced after pleading guilty to criminal charges. According to the District Attorney's Office, the conviction was secured Wednesday for the fatal shooting of a nursing assistant and the non-fatal shootings of Philadelphia police officers during a subsequent shootout. The shooting occurred on October 4, 2021, just before midnight.

COVID-19 booster shots for their children aged five to 11 starting today.The Ontario government says appointments can be booked through the province’s vaccine portal starting at 8 a.m.Appointments can also be made through local public health units as well as some pharmacies and health-care providers.Ontario’s top doctor announced Wednesday that the province would start rolling out boosters for kids five to 11 this week.

A total of two million people across the country are estimated to be suffering from long Covid, new figures suggest.

PHILADELPHIA - Two men were shot while sitting outside of a friend's apartment in Southwest Philadelphia, police say. Officials say the incident happened just after 11 p.m.

James Theodore Highhouse, right, arrives for his sentencing hearing at U.S. District Court with his attorney Jaime Dorenbaum, left, in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022.

Customers will now have access to primary healthcare that includes doctor consultations, diagnostics, OPD covers and many more such services that can be accessed within a few minutes Mumbai-based employee benefits Insurtech Healthysure has partnered Visit Health, the Delhi-based health-tech startup, to power full-stack, primary healthcare services for healthysure’s customers. Customers will now have access to primary healthcare that includes doctor consultations, diagnostics, OPD covers and many more such services that can be accessed within a few minutes.

Police are appealing for help to find a man who went missing from a mental health hospital in Trafford.

The Centre has directed states union territories to continue monitoring incoming international travellers as part of the revised surveillance strategy. States have also been asked to monitor lnfluenza-like illness (lLl) & SARI cases, undertake constant genome sequencing, and step-up vaccination NEW DELHI: Over the last 24 hours, daily covid infections in India rose by 7,946, pushing active cases to 62,748, while 37 related deaths were reported, as per Union health ministry’s update on Thursday.

7,231 Covid cases yesterday.  The case positivity rate reported today increased to 2.98 per cent. The active cases in the country fell from 64,667 yesterday to 62,748 today.

Those who have long-term health conditions, for example diabetes, asthma or heart disease should now come forward for their second Covid-19 booster vaccine, the Health Service Executive has said.

Those who have long-term health conditions, for example diabetes, asthma or heart disease should now come forward for their second booster. the HSE said.

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toxic chemicals like lead and cadmium, an analysis from Environmental Defence said Wednesday.The organization reported on tests conducted on dozens of products purchased at popular Canadian dollar stores. One in four of the products tested were positive for substances managed under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

assisted living facility in California died and two others were hospitalized after the care home’s staff accidentally served them dishwashing liquid instead of juice, officials say.On the evening of Aug. 28, local police were dispatched to the Atria Hillsdale care home in San Mateo, Calif., after receiving a report “of a female being poisoned,” according to a statement.Police learned that three of the residents had been hospitalized after ingesting toxic chemicals.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia is shoring up its security measures ahead of a visit from President Joe Biden who will deliver a prime time speech outside Independence Hall on Thursday. The White House announced that Biden will make a stop in Philadelphia while he was in Pennsylvania stumping for democratic senate candidate John Fetterman. Billed as a major address just over two months before the midterm elections, Biden, the White House said, will discuss how the nation's standing in the world and its democracy are at stake."He will talk about the progress we have made as a nation to protect our democracy, but how our rights and freedoms are still under attack," the White House said. "And he will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms, and fighting for our democracy."MORE LOCAL HEADLINESBiden's visit to Philadelphia will come two days after police said a teenager fired shots into the air on Market Street in Old City, causing tourists and bystanders to scramble in panic. The shooting, which happened just two blocks away from where Biden will make his address, highlights the city's worsening problem with gun violence.

NETHER PROVIDENCE, Pa. - A young girl from Delaware County is saving lives, even after she lost her own, her sudden loss immediately helping to save the lives of two people and maybe more in the future."Mackenzie was the biggest personality in the room," mom Liz Raiburn described her daughter.Liz has been posting a picture of her 7-year-old daughter Mackenzie Rose every week since she’s been born.Those proud mom posts continued through the summer, even after the Wallingford family got devastating news from her doctors."We spent about six days in the hospital and that’s when we got the diagnosis of Severe Aplastic Anemia," Liz said.Mackenzie had a rare bone marrow disorder and desperately needed a transplant to stay alive. Thanks to a bone marrow donor, over the weekend, Mackenzie was sent to Nemours Children’s Hospital in Wilmington for the procedure.But, the surgery didn’t go as planned."During her transplant, she complained of a severe headache and her blood pressure got high," Liz explained.

VOORHEES, N.J. - A New Jersey Buddhist temple in on high alert monks say the sanctuary was burglarized for the second time in three months. Director of the Preah Buddha Rangsey Buddhist Temple Alexander Kahn said the alleged theft happened around 6 p.m. Wednesday and was all caught on camera. The suspected thief is seen entering a building rummaging through personal items before casually leaving with a few hundred dollars stolen from another monk and an immigrant family. "$100 is a lot from someone coming from Cambodia, going back to Cambodia people live off of a cup of rice," Khan said. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESHe believe Wednesday's theft was carried out by someone from the same group that has tormented their temple before. "They knew the landscape of the property like they were in there before," Khan said. The Voorhees Police Department said a man was arrested on-site and charged with burglary and theft.Last spring, Khan told FOX 29's Jennifer Joyce that their head monk thwarted a thief who was attempting to steal $12k that was intended for another monk's family in Cambodia. The Voorhees Police Department said a man was arrested on-site and charged with burglary and theft.