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Houston Chronicle. Feb. 25, 2021.

Editorial: Texans died. Enough excuses. Lawmakers must get answers on power outages

The completely preventable, man-made tragedy of last week’s power failure that has now claimed dozens of Texas lives - young and old, but mostly lower-income people who couldn’t afford to escape to Cancun ...

Tiger Woods thanked his fans and fellow golfers in his first public comments since his car crash last week after many wore Woods’ signature red polo and black pants combination at Sunday’s WGC-Workday Championship in Florida.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Brown University is investigating an uptick in new coronavirus cases on campus, involving students, faculty and staff, a spokesperson said.

BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts eased some coronavirus restrictions on businesses Monday, making it much easier to grab dinner and a show.

MOSCOW (AP) - Two top United Nations human rights experts urged an international probe into the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and called Monday for his immediate release from prison.

Washington coach Ron Rivera said last month his team would explore all options at quarterback this offseason. That apparently included trade talks with the Las Vegas Raiders.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Ivory Coast has begun giving shots to inoculate against COVID-19 with vaccines delivered last week by the global COVAX initiative, which was created to ensure that low- and middle-income countries have fair access to doses.

DETROIT (AP) - The U.S. government is investigating complaints of engine compartment fires in nearly 1.9 million Toyota RAV4 small SUVs.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas' attorney general said Monday he's suing electricity provider Griddy for passing along massive bills to its customers during last month's winter storm.

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Police in suburban St. Louis are searching for a suspect in the shooting of a young girl as she walked along a North St. Louis County street.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - Populist President Nayib Bukele appeared Monday to have won control of El Salvador’s unicameral congress, ending a two-year standoff with legislators of the old parties that have dominated politics in the Central American country since the end of the 1980-1992 civil war.

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - A top European Union official visited ex-Soviet republic Georgia on Monday and urged all of its parties to engage in a dialogue to resolve the country's political crisis.

DOVER, Del. (AP) - The Delaware Division of Public Health says that only 11 cases of the flu have been reported this season.

IPSWICH, Mass. (AP) - A 46-year-old Massachusetts man died in a weekend mountain biking accident, authorities said.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 7-13:

March 7: TV personality Willard Scott (“Today”) is 87. Actor Daniel J. Travanti (“Hill Street Blues”) is 81. Bassist Chris White of The Zombies is 78. Singer Peter Wolf of The J. Geils Band is 75. Keyboardist Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum ...

Americans should begin receiving Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine by the middle of the week, the company’s chief executive said Monday, as the first 4 million doses shipped across the nation.

OTHELLO, Wash. (AP) - A 4-year-old shot in the head Saturday in Othello, about 50 miles north of the Tri-Cities, has died and his father was arrested.

CULPEPER, Va. (AP) - Virginia State Police are investigating the shooting death of a Black man by a Culpeper County sheriff's deputy.

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) - Two men have been arrested in the shooting death last week of another man in suburban Kansas City, police there said.

LONDON (AP) - The body that runs British horseracing reacted with outrage Monday after leading trainer Gordon Elliott admitted to sitting on a horse that had just died of a heart attack.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota is expected to receive 7,000 doses this week of the recently-approved Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A man was found dead after a shooting in Parkland, south of Tacoma, on Sunday night.

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - A man a man was shot to death and a second person was hospitalized after a weekend shooting in Auburn, authorities said.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - The FBI and southwestern Indiana police have released an updated timeline in the case of an Evansville mother of six who vanished last June.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - A 71-year-old elected official in the Traverse City area claims she hasn't had a raise in eight years because the county wants to force her out of office.