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The Broome County Public Library will eliminate overdue fines on all materials beginning Jan. 1. (Jillian Forstadt/WSKG)

Broome County Public Library eliminates all late fees in 2022

“It's an effort to say, ‘What are the actual needs that we're seeing in the community, and what are innovative ways that we can address them?’”

A health care worker holds doses containing J & J vaccines to be administered is seen ahead of the launch of the VaxuMzansi National Vaccine Day Campaign at the Gandhi Phoenix Settlement in Bhambayi township, north of Durban , on September 24, 2021. - The campaign launched by the Religious Forum Against Covid-19 (RFA) is an inter-faith collaboration of various religious communities standing together to fight the spread of the pandemic. The campaign aims to encourage congregations and followers to vaccinate with a sense of urgency to increase vaccine uptake. (Photo by Rajesh JANTILAL / AFP) (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)

New COVID studies show promise for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine booster

Two studies that have not yet been peer reviewed indicate increased protection against the infectious omicron variant.

MINEOLA, NEW YORK - MARCH 30: A Honduran asylum seeker, 8, looks from her bedroom window during self-quarantine with her family for possible COVID-19 on March 30, 2020 in Mineola, New York. A third grader, she's been out of school for several weeks, although because the family has no internet, she has not been able to take part in distance learning with her schoolmates. The nine immigrants who share the Long Island rental house self-quarantined after one became ill with fever, and the rest quickly followed. Most are largely recovered but never received tests for COVID-19. The coronavirus pandemic has been especially difficult for undocumented communities, who lack unemployment protections, health insurance and fear deportation if authorities know their whereabouts. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Coronavirus FAQ: Remind me, what's the difference between isolation and quarantine?

The Centers for Disease Control changed its guidelines for isolation and quarantine during this pandemic. Not everyone is sure how to define those terms. Also, not everyone is 100% behind the changes.

Eko the tiger, who was killed after biting a man’s arm when he crossed into an unauthorised portion of the Naples Zoo, is seen in Naples, Florida, U.S., in this handout photo taken March, 2021. Naples Zoo/Handout via REUTERS NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT

An endangered tiger was shot dead by police in a Florida zoo after attacking a man

An 8-year-old Malayan tiger named Eko was killed by police after it bit the arm of a cleaning crew member who put his hand in the enclosure after hours.

2021 environment in review: Another year of harmful algal blooms

Cayuga Lake has struggled with harmful algal blooms or HABs in recent years, but in 2021 unseasonably warm temperatures and heavy rainfall may have extended their prevalence late into the year.

In this image provided by The White House, President Joe Biden speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone from his private residence in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP)

Biden again calls on Putin to de-escalate tensions along Ukraine border

It was the second time the two leaders spoke this month, as Russia has assembled as many as 100,000 troops along the Ukrainian border, prompting fears of an invasion.

Chelmsford - August 10: Lowell - August 10: Judy Chartier holds a photograph of her missing daughter, also named Judith Judy Chartier, in Lowell, MA on May 10, 1990. (Photo by Tom Landers/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Items belonging to a teen who vanished in 1982 were found in a Massachusetts river

The car and a work ID belonging to Judy Chartier, 17, were found in the Concord River, officials say. The teen previously went missing after attending a party in June 1982.

FILE - President Donald Trump prepares to sign four executive orders during a news conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., in a Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020 file photo. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has dismissed as laughable the executive order President Donald Trump signed to force states to pay part of $400 weekly unemployment insurance benefits. Cuomo told a telephone news conference Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020 that the plan announced by Trump a day earlier would likely cost New York state $4 billion. Cuomo called it an impossibility. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Trump left a $7 million mess after delaying census workers' payroll taxes

The Trump administration directed many federal agencies to stop collecting payroll taxes last year. The Census Bureau is now trying to get former temporary workers to pay what they owe.

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 28: U.S. President Joe Biden walks into the U.S. Capitol building with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for a meeting with House Democrats on the continued negotiations over the domestic spending Bills before the President departs for Europe on October 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden is heading to Rome where he will meet with leaders from the G20 as well as the Pope in the Vatican as Democrats are continuing internal negotiations about his administration's social policy spending bill. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

The House has passed the $1 trillion infrastructure plan, sending it to Biden's desk

The bipartisan bill's journey from the Senate to the president has been a tumultuous one. The legislation includes nearly $550 billion in new spending on items including broadband, roads and rail.

Dr. Sudeep Taksali’s daughter, 8, runs in the yard outside the family’s home in Wilsonville, Oregon, on Feb. 7, 2020. The girl recently underwent treatment for central precocious puberty, or early puberty. Taksali, an orthopedist, worked with her doctor and their health insurance provider to get the less expensive of two nearly identical drugs with vastly different price tags. (Kristina Barker for KHN)

Drugmaker drops cheaper version of drug, leaving patients stuck with pricier one

Kids who need hormone-blocking drugs to prevent premature puberty — or delay it if they're trans — have lost a more affordable option. The remaining nearly identical drug costs eight times more.

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