Iroquois County Time-Republic

1 day ago | newsbug.info | Sam Lennon

By Sam Lennon A cat that was trapped under floorboards for three weeks is believed to have survived by drinking beer. Ben Smith says his pet Leia clambered into his neighbor's open floor in Deal, Kent, moments before it was tiled shut with her beneath. Such was his family's despair, they even shelled out $1,000 for a pet detective to help trace the missing animal.

1 day ago | newsbug.info | Whitney Downard

Indiana Capital ChronicleGov. Mike Braun signed a whopping 56 bills into law Friday, including measures setting contentious work requirements for certain Medicaid recipients and evaluating the addition of secessionist Illinois counties to Indiana. Twenty of the bills came from the Senate, led by Senate Enrolled Act 2 - which would require enrollees under the Healthy Indiana Plan to either work or volunteer for 20 hours a week or risk losing their benefits.

5 days ago | newsbug.info | Clément Melki |Alice Ritchie |Alexandria Sage AFP

Leo XIV celebrated his first mass as pope on Friday, the day after becoming the first US head of the Catholic Church, with the world's eyes watching for signs of what kind of leader he will be. Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost on Thursday became the 267th pope, spiritual head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and successor to Argentina's Pope Francis, after a secret conclave by his fellow cardinals in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.

6 days ago | newsbug.info | Alma Beauvais

Domestic violence services are in jeopardy, providers sayK.C., a stay-at-home mother in North Canton, Ohio, knew her husband had hidden multiple guns around their home. He never pointed the weapons at her, but he routinely invoked them to silence her during arguments. "I was always living in fear, walking on eggshells, having to do everything to make him happy and just not saying anything to upset him," said K.C., who asked to be identified only by her initials because of safety concerns.

6 days ago | newsbug.info | Bethany Blankley

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has filed another bill to help U.S. service members negatively impacted by the Biden administration's COVID vaccine mandate at the Department of Defense. Under former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, active-duty service members were required to take an experimental COVID vaccine, and nearly all who submitted Religious Accommodation Request (RAR) exemptions were denied.