A boil, also known as a furuncle, is a swollen, pus-filled growth on the skin that occurs when bacteria—even those normally found on your body—infect a group of hair follicles. Boils commonly develop ...

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Veolia's boil water advisory remain in affect for residents in the areas of Christiana, Brookside, Bear and New Castle after a large transmission main break on Oct. 25 that resulted in low-water ...

WAVELAND, Miss. (WLOX) - As of 3:19 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, a citywide boil water notice was lifted in Waveland, officials reported. The previous story can be found below. The entire city of ...

Some East Moline residents are under a cautionary boil order as crews work to repair a water-main break.

GRAND MOUND, Iowa (KWQC) - A boil order was lifted Wednesday for the town of Grand Mound, city officials say. A pipe valve needed to be fixed and the town was placed under a boil order Monday to make ...

It’s going to be another warm, humid afternoon! We’ll be in the upper 70s and low 80s today with a partly cloudy sky. Temperatures will only drop into the low to mid 60s by Wednesday morning. Fog is ...

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Here’s one type of breathing that you could eventually get behind, so to speak—a way to essentially breathe through your butt. It would involve squirting an oxygen-carrying liquid up your butt to then ...

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Teams spell, sing for a cause at 'Great Grown-Up' spelling bee competition in Kalamazoo There was a big turnout for the twenty-third annual "Great Grown-Up Spelling Bee" at Western Michigan University ...