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Feb 02 2024
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Brooklyn building collapse kills construction worker, NYPD says
A 33-year-old construction worker was killed on the job Friday after the first floor of a two-story residential home collapsed in Borough Park, Brooklyn, police said. The NYPD said the man was working at a job site at 1266 50th St. when the floor collapsed. Police and emergency responders arrived shortly after 12 p.m. and emergency medical service workers pronounced him dead on the scene. A
GothamistDec 29 2022
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St. Louis Using Federal COVID Relief Funds to Send $500/Month to Poor Families
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones signed the "The Working Families Bill" on Wednesday, which supports "St. Louisans recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic" by sending about $500 in cash, no strings attached, to more than 400 households every month for 18 months.
"Using $52 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, this legislation establishes Missouri’s first guaranteed
CNSNews.comFeb 02 2024
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Florida trooper killed in I-95 crash in pursuit of felon
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper was killed Friday in a crash with a tractor-trailer while trying to catch a fleeing felon on I-95.
Trooper Zachary Fink was killed in St. Lucie County, officials said. The northbound lanes of the major north-south highway were closed for several hours because of the crash.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said on social media that "our hearts go out to" the
CBS News (Online)Feb 02 2024
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Principal FUMES when boys tear down tampon dispenser 20 min after it was installed in their bathroom
A Connecticut high school had a state-mandated tampon dispenser in a boys’ bathroom ripped off the wall a whopping 20 minutes after it was installed, enraging the principal. A new state law mandates that every school must provide free menstrual products in women’s restrooms, all-gender restrooms, and at least one men’s bathroom. “A dispenser with menstrual products was installed in the boys’
Bizpac ReviewJan 25 2024
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2nd suspect arrested in fatal Mother’s Day shooting of DC 10-year-old
D.C. police said 19-year-old Dallas McKinney, of Southeast, was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder while armed. He’s now the second 19-year-old arrested in Davis’ killing. The shooting happened in May of last year around 9 p.m. in the 3700 block of Hayes Street in Northeast D.C. Davis was riding in the right side of the rear passenger seat of her family’s white Jeep rental
WTOPMar 25 2015
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Jeb Bush fundraising is a family affair
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's fundraising swing through Texas this week will be a family affair.
Both former Bush presidents will reportedly attend fundraising events for the expected presidential hopeful in Jeb Bush's home state.
According to The Dallas Morning News, George W. Bush and his wife Laura will both attend a Wednesday evening reception at the home of wealthy Dallas
CNN (Online News)Apr 22 2022
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In the Murdoch family succession battle, Fox News and democracy hang in the balance
A 91-year-old billionaire sits atop a global media empire, while his adult children vie to control the family company in the next generation.
It sounds like the plot of the HBO series Succession, but New York Times journalist Jim Rutenberg says the real-life drama involving Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch and his children, Lachlan, James, Elisabeth and Prudence, rivals anything a
NPR (Online News)Nov 08 2021
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US-Canada border: After 19 months, families to reunite
On 8 November, the US-Canadian border will open both ways to non-essential travel for the first time in 19 months. The closure has kept thousands of bi-national families split throughout the pandemic.
In March 2020, Jaslyn Declercq and her partner, Thomas Musgraves, began to plan their wedding.
The relationship had been a long-distance whirlwind after the pair met in an online
BBC NewsFeb 02 2024
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Wisconsin is motivated to prove its worth vs. No. 2 Purdue after an ugly loss to Nebraska
MADISON – Only a few minutes after his team had blown a double-digit lead and lost to unranked Nebraska, Chucky Hepburn emerged from a quiet Wisconsin locker room to mingle with friends and family inside Pinnacle Bank Arena. Then came the business of answering reporters' questions about the stunning loss and UW’s next challenge: Hosting No. 2-ranked Purdue, which is alone in first place in the
Milwaukee Journal SentinelFeb 01 2024
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Jan Graham, 1st woman to serve as Utah AG, remembered as ‘historic legal figure,’ ‘trailblazer’
ST. GEORGE — Current and former politicians from around the state paid tribute Thursday to Jan Graham, the first woman to serve as Utah Attorney General, who died Monday in St. George. She was 74. “Jan Graham was a trailblazer,” Gov. Spencer Cox posted on “X.” “Abby and I are grateful for her public service and express condolences to her family.” Former Gov. Gary Herbert lauded Graham for her
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