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To encourage outpatient mental health care and reduce any potential barriers associated with seeking it, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is proposing to eliminate copayment requirements for outpatient mental health visits and reduce the copayments for medications dispensed to Veterans who are identified as high risk for suicide by a VA clinician.

On Tuesday, January 4th, at approximately 7:19 pm, deputies from the Palm Desert Sheriff’s Station responded to the 72-300 block of Highway 111, Palm Desert, regarding a grand theft from a retail location. A broadcast of the suspect vehicle was provided and the suspect vehicle was located in the 72-800 block of Highway 111. As deputies approached the vehicle, one of the suspects exited and fled on foot.

On Wednesday, January 5, 2022, about 11:30 AM, deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, San Jacinto Station, responded to the 400 block of Bryce Canyon Way, regarding a major injury traffic collision. Deputies and Cal Fire arrived and located a deceased juvenile who had been struck by a truck.

In the weeks since the emergence of the Omicron variant, the United States had once again led the world with a record of confirmed cases of COVID-19. In a conversation with Transmission, Columbia Mailman Professor Jeffrey Shaman, a world-renowned authority in infectious disease modeling, says the actual number of infections is many times larger still and they continue to accumulate at a near-exponential pace.

The results of the drug war in Chicago are clear: people who use drugs keep getting targeted with arrests and the justice system continues to make their lives worse while sticking taxpayers with the bill.