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Sep 21 2023
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Henrico County will pay bulk of the Irvo Otieno family's $8.5 million settlement
A settlement agreement between the family of Irvo Otieno and the state, Henrico County and the Henrico County Sheriff shows that the county will pay the largest portion of the $8.5 million lawsuit. The agreement filed in the Henrico Circuit Court earlier this week shows that Henrico County will pay $4.45 million, the state of Virginia will pay $2.55 million and the Henrico sheriff is paying $1
Richmond Times Dispatch
Sep 13 2023
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Kim Davis Might Have to Pay Damages in Gay Couples in Marriage License Case
A federal jury is deliberating whether Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who served five days in jail for her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, should pay damages to two of those couples. Couples David Ermold and David Moore, and James Yates and William Smith, sued Davis after she repeatedly refused to issue them marriage licenses as a clerk with Rowan County
Advocate
Sep 20 2023
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Police: Streamwood man suspected in Romeoville family's murder crashes, dies in Oklahoma
This story has been updated to correct the suspect's age to 32. A suspect in the shooting deaths of a Romeoville couple and their two children is dead after a fiery crash Wednesday in Oklahoma, police said. Nathaniel Huey Jr., 32, of Streamwood, was suspected in the deaths of Alberto Rolon, Zoraida Bartolomei and their two sons, ages 7 and 9, whose names have not been released. The victims
The Daily Herald
Sep 18 2023
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Families affected by Juneau’s flood rebuild or reassess as recovery efforts drag on
The sound of the nearby Mendenhall River fills the room as Amy Ballard sits down in her condo for the first time since evacuating last month. Six weeks ago, Juneau’s record-breaking glacial outburst flood threatened to send her home into the river, along with the rest of her condo building on Riverside Drive. But on the inside, Ballard’s unit still looks untouched and cozy. There’s a clutter
Alaska Public Media
Sep 20 2023
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Irvo Otieno family agrees to $8.5 million settlement with Henrico, sheriff and state
The family of Irvo Otieno has reached an $8.5 million settlement with the state of Virginia, Henrico County and the sheriff whose deputies were involved in restraining him. Otieno, 28, died in March while handcuffed and pinned to the floor of Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County for about 11 minutes by seven Henrico County sheriff’s deputies and three hospital employees. Ben Crump, who
Richmond Times Dispatch
Sep 20 2023
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Rihanna and A$AP Rocky Dress Newborn Son in Pink For Family Photoshoot
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky introduced their second bundle of joy to the world through a fashion-forward family photoshoot. The Bajan singer and Rocky posed it up in their first official family-of-four photoshoot, over a month after baby Riot’s birth. In photos unveiled by People, Rihanna, 35, and Rocky, 34, take turns holding the boys RZA, 16 months, and Riot Rsevense, seven weeks. The “Diamonds”
Black Enterprise
Sep 19 2023
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Illinois family found dead inside home, ‘not a random incident’: police
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. (WGN) — A homicide investigation is underway after a couple, their two children and three dogs were found dead inside a home in Illinois. Police conducted a well-being check around 8:40 p.m. Sunday on the family’s home in Romeoville after a member of the household did not show up to work and was not responding to phone calls. Romeoville is located about 30 miles southwest of
My High Plains KAMR
Sep 14 2023
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Wisconsin Family Action: Responds to PPWI resuming abortions - WisPolitics
MADISON – Today Planned Parenthood announced that it will resume performing abortions at its Madison and Milwaukee clinics next week despite the fact that Wisconsin’s abortion ban is still in effect. This is devastating news for innocent preborn children and Wisconsin mothers who deserve better than abortion. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin stopped performing abortions following the U.S.
Wis Politics
Sep 14 2023
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Same-Sex Couple Denied Marriage License By Ex-County Clerk Awarded $100,000
A federal jury has awarded $100,000 to a Kentucky couple who sued former county clerk Kim Davis over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Davis, the former Rowan County clerk, drew international attention when she was briefly jailed in 2015 over her refusal, which she based on her belief that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. A jury in Ashland, Kentucky
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