Kobe Williams, 27, and her infant sons, Khyzier and Khazmir, died while sheltering in their trailer home in Thomson, Georgia, during Hurricane Helene.
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — Virtual pre-k programs offer a lifeline to families who want their children to experience the benefits of a structured pre-k program but face barriers to traditional programs.
Union dockworkers along East Coast and Gulf Coast ports began walking picket lines early Tuesday, halting the movement of billions of dollars’ worth of goods including furniture, paper, shoes, manufacturing components, farm machinery and much more.
The death toll across six states soared to 128 Monday, days after Helene made landfall in Florida as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane. Almost 2 million customers still don’t have power. And countless families have no idea whether their loved ones survived, as Helene’s rampage shredded communication infrastructure.
Despite attempts from hundreds of thousands of online petitioners, his attorney, the prosecutor, and even members of the victim’s family to commute his lethal injection, Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson and the Missouri Supreme Court denied Williams’ clemency on Monday. On Tuesday, hours before his scheduled execution, the U.S. Supreme Court also declined to stop it. The court’s three liberal justices – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson – said they would have granted Williams a stay, but the sum of the Supreme Court did not, and they offered no explanation for the decision, as is customary in emergency docket cases.
A half dozen unions issued endorsements, including Teamsters Local 79 — SW FL, Tampa, Teamsters Local 173 — Bradenton, Teamsters Local 385 — Orlando, Teamsters Local 512 — Jacksonville, Teamsters Local 769 — Miami and Teamsters Local 947 — Jacksonville.
Overdose deaths soared during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, jumping 30% between 2019 and 2020 and another 16% by the end of 2021, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the latest provisional data shows that overdose deaths made a sharp turn at the end of last year and have been trending down for months.
Recently, state Representative Gallop Franklin II, former North Florida Congressman Allen Boyd, and Floridians insured through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) hosted a press conference in Tallahassee highlighting the Vice President’s New Way Forward plan to lower health care costs and strengthen the ACA which 45 million Americans rely on, including 4.2 million Floridians — and a record number who signed up for ACA marketplace coverage this year. The press conference follows Donald Trump’s pledge during the debate that he will repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Black Democratic operatives and minority-owned firms are raising alarms over spending practices in Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. They accuse the campaign of favoring white-owned vendors while sidelining Black-owned firms. The controversy, first reported by NOTUS, a nonprofit newsroom created by the Allbritton Journalism Institute, has caused growing frustration among Democratic leaders, operatives, and donors. Many fear that these missteps could harm Harris’ standing with voters of color in the crucial weeks before Election Day.
Southeast US under major hurricane watch and warnings