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Whitney Anderson wheels a recently purchased air scrubber through a classroom in advance of the school year at the E.N. White School in Holyoke, Mass., on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Schools across the U.S. are about to start a new year amid a flood of federal money larger than they've ever seen before, an infusion of pandemic relief aid that is four times the amount the U.S. Department of Education sends to K-12 schools in a typical year. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Few strings on schools’ pandemic windfall

by Collin Binkley Associated Press, Geoff Mulvihill Associated Press, Camille Fassett Associated Press, and Larry Fenn Associated PressAugust 26, 2021

FILE - In this Friday, May 21, 2021, file photo, New York Attorney General Letitia James addresses a news conference at her office, in New York. In an agreement disclosed late Wednesday, July 7, 2021, in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, N.Y., more than a dozen states have dropped their objections to OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s reorganization plan, edging the company closer to resolving its bankruptcy case. The new settlement terms call for Purdue to make tens of...

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Mass., other states OK Purdue Pharma exit plan

by Geoff Mulvihill Associated PressJuly 8, 2021

Purdue Pharma headquarters is shown in Stamford, Conn.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty in criminal case

by Geoff Mulvihill Associated PressNovember 24, 2020

This Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020 photo shows Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Conn. The Justice Department says on Wednesday, Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion. OxyContin is the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Purdue Pharma to admit to 3 criminal charges

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Geoff Mulvihill Associated PressOctober 21, 2020

FILE- In this April 25, 2020 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during his daily press briefing at the War Memorial in Trenton, N.J. State and local government officials across the U.S. have been on edge for months about how to keep basic services running while covering rising costs related to the coronavirus outbreak as tax revenue plummeted. On Monday, Aug. 10, 2020 governors, lawmakers, mayors, teachers and others said they were going to keep pushing members of Congress...

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Without relief, states, cities face big deficits

by Geoff Mulvihill Associated PressAugust 10, 2020

Des Moines Public Schools custodian Cynthia Adams cleans a desk in a classroom at Brubaker Elementary School, Wednesday, July 8, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. The cost of bringing students back to classrooms is proving a major stumbling block to safely reopening schools across the U.S. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Cost of ensuring school safety complicates reopening

by Geoff Mulvihill Associated PressJuly 15, 2020

FILE - In this July 5, 2020, file photo, healthcare workers help each other with their personal protective equipment at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site outside Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. The PPE that was in dangerously short supply during the initial weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running out again as the virus resumes its rapid spread and the number of hospitalized patients climbs. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

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Protective gear for medical workers begins to run low

by Geoff Mulvihill Associated Press, and Camille Fassett Associated PressJuly 7, 2020

FILE - In this March 3, 2020, file photo, Hawaii state Department of Health microbiologist Mark Nagata demonstrates the process for testing a sample for coronavirus at the department's laboratory in Pearl City, Hawaii. An Associated Press analysis shows that some of the least-populated states, such as Hawaii, with relatively few coronavirus cases received an out-sized proportion of the $150 billion in federal money that was designed to address virus-related expenses. (AP Photo/Audrey...

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Low-virus states get big share of relief

by Geoff Mulvihill Associated PressMay 5, 2020

In this Nov. 18, 2019, photo, Sportsbook shift manager Stuart Norsell, right, assists a patron, left, in the sports betting area of Twin River Casino in Lincoln, R.I. Legalized sports betting's rapid march across the U.S. could face some bigger tests in 2020. Less than two years after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling opened the door to sportsbooks outside Nevada, they have been legalized in states that are home to about one-third of the nation's population. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Sports betting’s rapid expansion faces more tests in 2020

by Jennifer McDermott Associated Press, and Geoff Mulvihill Associated PressDecember 18, 2019

Lynn Wencus of Wrentham holds a sign with a picture of her son Jeff and wears a sign of others’ loved ones lost to OxyContin and other opioids during a protest at Purdue Pharma LLP headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Aug. 17, 2018.

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‘Blood money’? Purdue deal relies on opioid sales

by Geoff Mulvihill Associated Press, and Claire Galofaro Associated PressSeptember 17, 2019