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Godfrey,3310 Greenwood Lane

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Alton,2203 N Rodgers,

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Toys, Movies, House-hold Goods, Lamps,

Futon, Lots of Miscel-laneous Items. (Somestill with tags or never

been opened.)

Brighton,Hardwood Hills

Subdivision Sale,Sat 7a-1p, Red Oak Droff Lageman From 255,Antiques, Furniture, 4Wheeler, Tools, DaleErnhardt Collectibles,Home Furnishings &

ETC

Cottage Hills,94 N Lincoln, Fri & Sat,8a-4p, Lots of Old Re-cord Albums from the

20's and up, VHSTapes, CD's and Cas-

settes, Glassware,Dishes, Collector SteelBeer Cans, Stuffed An-

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Treadmill, & LOTS ANDLOTS Of Other Stuff

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Many To List.CLEANED OUT

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Millions more children in the U.S. learned Friday that they’re unlikely to return to classrooms full time in the fall because of the coronavirus pandemic as death tolls reached new highs.

It came as many states — particularly in the Sunbelt — struggled to cope with the surge and governments worldwide tried to control fresh outbreaks. In a sign of how the virus is gallop-ing around the globe, the World Health Organization reported nearly a quarter-million new infections in a single day.

In the U.S., teams of military medics were deployed in Texas and California to help hospitals deluged by coronavirus patients. The two most populous states each reported roughly 10,000 new cases and some of their highest death counts since the pandemic began. Big numbers in Florida, Arizona and other states also are helping drive the U.S. resurgence that’s forcing states to rethink the school year.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out strict criteria for school reopenings that makes classroom instruction unlikely for most dis-tricts. The Democrat’s rules man-date that students above second grade and all staff wear masks.

Texas gave public schools per-mission to stay closed for more than 5 million students well into the fall. Under the guidelines, schools can hold online-only instruction for up to the first eight weeks, potentially pushing a return to campus in some cities until November.

Most Chicago children would return to the classroom just two days a week and spend the other three days learning remotely under a tentative plan outlined by officials from the nation’s third-largest school district. A final decision for fall classes for the district’s more than 300,000

students won’t come until late August.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, announced she will override school districts and require students to spend at least half of their schooling in class-rooms, drawing criticism from the state teachers union.

The uncertainty about the way to safely restart schools has par-ents like Ivette Garcia of Orange Park, Florida, struggling with what to do. When she learned her school district only had two options this fall, in-person or virtual lessons, she decided to keep her kindergarten son home. She plans to schedule instruction before and after work, with her parents reinforcing education in between.

“The schools’ start date is less than 30 days away. And I don’t feel that there’s a very great plan in place that makes me feel com-fortable enough to send my baby to school and then return back to our family dynamic,” Garcia said.

Several states have been report-ing record numbers of COVID-19

this week, contributing to a surge in the national death rate. The seven-day rolling average for daily new deaths has risen 34% from two weeks ago, while the case count in that period shot up 43%.

Texas reported a record 174 new deaths, and more than 10,000 additional cases for the fourth consecutive day. Califor-nia’s nearly 10,000 confirmed cases were its third-highest daily total, and it recorded 130 deaths during a week of seesawing infec-tion numbers.

Florida reported 128 new deaths Friday and 11,345 addi-tional cases.

There were signs across the Sunbelt that the virus was stretching authorities’ capacity to respond. The medical examiner’s office in metro Phoenix has got-ten portable storage coolers and ordered more to handle an influx of bodies — reminiscent of New York City at the height of the pan-demic there.

In Houston, an 86-person Army medical team worked to take over

a wing of United Memorial Medi-cal Center. In California, military doctors, nurses and other health care specialists were being deployed to eight hospitals facing staffing shortages.

Some hospitals in South Caro-lina also were being squeezed: The number of patients with COVID-19 is increasing rapidly, while nurses and other workers are getting infected when they are off work, said Dr. Wendell James, a senior vice president with Prisma Health who is based in Greenville.

“The majority of the illness we see in our nursing staffs and our support staff is community spread,” he said. “Almost all of it I can’t control.”

In Florida, Miami-area authori-ties began stepping up enforce-ment of a mask requirement. Code and fire inspectors have authority to issue tickets of up to $100 for individuals and $500 for businesses not complying with guidelines to wear masks and practice social distancing. Police already had that power.

LM Otero | APAmid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, science teachers Ann Darby, left, and Rosa Herrera check-in students before a summer STEM camp at Wylie High School Tuesday, in Wylie, Texas.

BEIJING (AP) — Engorged with more heavy rains, China’s mighty Yangtze River is cresting again, bringing fears of further destruc-tion as seasonal floods that already have left more than 140 people dead or missing have grown in force since last month.

The rains are putting renewed pressure on the massive Three Gorges Dam that straddles the river upstream of the city of Wuhan in Hubei province.

The official Xinhua News Agency said the rate of flow in the res-ervoir behind the dam would hit a record for the year on Friday night, at 55,000 square meters (almost 600,000 square feet) per second.

Rivers in the Yangtze system have broken their banks in places. A helicopter was used to drop stones into a breach to block the inrushing waters in Hubei.

Crews were dis-patched with poles to probe waterlogged embankments for weak-ness and thousands of sandbags were being filled in preparation for more breaches that would need to be swiftly closed.

Water rose to the level of first-floor windows in exposed ancient towns and crops were completely inundated around vast Poyang Lake, a network of waterways that empty into the Yangtze below Wuhan.

Millions told full return to school unlikelyChina’s mighty Yangtze nears crest again, new floods feared