"Welcome to Freedom!" exclaims real estate agent Ashley Scott as she surveys the nearly 97 acres of land that she and a group of 19 Black families purchased in August.
Monica Coenraads had a terrible feeling something was wrong with her 14-month-old baby, Chelsea. She had not learned to walk. She had one word, duck, and then lost it.During a family vacation to Barbados more than 20 years ago, Chelsea cried the whole time. She bit her parents so hard they bled. She was only…
May 25, 2020 | 1:14pm | Updated May 25, 2020 | 1:32pm The families of New York’s public workers who gave their lives fighting the coronavirus will receive death benefits from the state and local governments, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday. “I feel a grave responsibility to our frontline workers, our essential workers who understood…
Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesThe IRS has a clear message for families of the deceased who receive stimulus checks: Give the money back.But what about those who recently died because of Covid-19?At least 75,852 U.S. deaths have been caused by the novel coronavirus, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.Meanwhile, the U.S. government…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says calls to poison control centers across the country received more than 45,000 calls tied to cleaners and disinfectants in the first three months of the year. That is a 20% jump. Kentucky is seeing a similar trend. In March, the Kentucky…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…