California may cut rooftop solar incentives

(AP) – California's 26-year-old program to get more people to put solar panels on their homes has been wildly successful, but state regulators may lower the incentives for people to go solar in a bid to reduce electricity bills for the rest of residents in the most populous U.S. state.

(AP) – As the omicron variant sparks worldwide fears of renewed COVID-19 outbreaks, Americans' worries about infection are again on the rise, but fewer say they are regularly wearing masks or isolating compared with the beginning of the year.

(AP) – Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers are committed in principle to education and jobs for girls and women, a marked departure from their previous time in power, and they seek the world's "mercy and compassion" to help millions of Afghans in desperate need, a top Taliban leader said in a rare interview.

(AP) – Judy Burton's hands shivered as she gazed up at what had been her third-floor apartment. She could see her clothes still hanging in the closet, through the building's shredded walls. Across the street, her church was boarded up. A few blocks away, the spire was ripped away from the town's grand courthouse, its roof caved in. The restaurant where neighbors met for lunch, too, was lost in the rubble.

Elf skaters

From left, Viva Bluth and Hannah Gregory prepare to skate around New York City in Southwest Playhouse’s adaptation of “Elf the Musical.”

Responded to a report of cattle out on Corn Rd., at the intersection of State Highway 152 and N. 2370 Rd.

Responded to a medical assist in the 400 block of S. 7 St.

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