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Matthew Jonas/MediaNews Group/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty ImagesBY: BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC NEWS (DENVER) — An out-of-control street party near the campus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, on Saturday drew up to 800 people, most appearing to be college-aged, prompting violent clashes with SWAT police who deployed at least one armored vehicle to disperse the crowd, according to authorities. The bedlam ensued in the University Hill neighborhood as hundreds of people took to the streets just blocks from the university campus, most dispensing with COVID-19 social distancing rules and mask…

alvarez/iStockBY: MEREDITH DELISO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization characterized the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. In the days, weeks and months that followed, millions of Americans started working and learning remotely, social distancing became the new norm and mask-wearing was widely encouraged, if not mandated, to help reduce the spread of the virus. Nearly a year later, those and other mitigation measures are enduring signs of how the pandemic has fundamentally changed how we live. Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (74%) said…

Stephen Maturen/Getty ImagesBY: BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Fortified fencing, barbed wire and concrete barricades have gone up around the courthouse and police stations in Minneapolis in preparation for the landmark murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd. But what may seem like necessary preparations for unrest that could accompany the trial, in a city still recovering from the violence and destruction that erupted there last summer after Floyd’s death, to others is a frustrating sign that government officials don’t understand the…

ABC NewsBY: DANIEL MANZO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — The warmest air in four months will spread across the Central and Eastern U.S. this week. On Sunday afternoon, widespread temperatures in the 60s and 70s are expected across the much of the central U.S. and even northern locations like Minneapolis will reach 60 degrees or higher today when just 3 weeks ago, Minneapolis wasn’t getting above zero degrees. The warmer weather will start to approach Chicago on Sunday as well, but even warmer weather will be arriving over the coming…

kali9/iStockBy MARLENE LENTHANG and NICHOLAS CIRONE, ABC News(BOWLING GREEN, Ohio) — A Bowling Green State University student is in critical condition after an alleged hazing incident involving alcohol. The student has been identified as Stone Foltz, family attorney Sean Alto told ABC News. Foltz was hospitalized after “alleged hazing activity involving alcohol consumption” at an off-campus Pi Kappa Alpha event in Bowling Green, Ohio, the university said in a statement. He is currently in critical condition, according to the ProMedica Toledo Hospital. Doctors treating Foltz are going through the organ…

Courtesy of Linda MolinarBy SOO RIN KIM, ERIN SCHUMAKER,  MARK NICHOLS, and EVAN SIMON, ABC News(PRESIDIO, Texas) — Jorge Figueroa was willing to drive eight hours round trip. He wasn’t going on vacation or to visit a relative. Instead, he was planning to get a lifesaving shot to protect him from COVID-19 — a shot that many Americans can now conveniently access at their neighborhood pharmacy. The 54-year-old father of four has been eager to get vaccinated because he has high blood pressure, which could increase his risk of severe…

kali9/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (SPRINGDALE, Utah) — A 43-year-old man fell to his death while hiking at Zion National Park in southern Utah, officials said. Jason Hartwell, of Draper, Utah, was found at the base of the Angels Landing summit Friday morning, the National Park Service said in a statement. A search and rescue mission launched Thursday afternoon, following reports from park visitors that a person had fallen from Angels Landing, officials said. Hartwell sustained injuries “consistent with a high-elevation fall,” park officials said. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office…

TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty ImagesBy MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The Javits Center in New York City is now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, after the approval of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine a week ago. The convention center in Manhattan is accepting appointments around the clock in a sweeping effort to inoculate New Yorkers as quickly as possible. The effort began at 9 p.m. Friday, with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine only being distributed overnight, from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Doses…

ABC NewsBY: DANIEL MANZO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — A late winter cold blast is gripping parts of the Northeast Saturday morning. Wind chills in the Northeast are in the teens and single digits. In the interior northeast, wind chills are well below zero. Lake effect snow will be possible Saturday and into Sunday for parts of upstate New York, where 1 to 2 inches of snow will likely accumulate in areas prone to lake effect snow. Meanwhile, mild air in the 60s and 70s is building across the Central…

Courtesy of Thomas Built Buses BY: LEIGHTON SCHNEIDER, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools has announced a contract to replace its diesel buses with electric ones, starting with 326 electric buses over the next four years. It marks the single largest purchase of electric school buses in North America, according to the release announcing the deal. The county school board, which is located northwest of Washington D.C and operates more than 200 schools, approved the deal with Highland Electric Transportation, a Massachusetts-based start-up that delivers electric…