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Playing Scrooge and leading a theater with focus on homelessness
Read More: Playing Scrooge and leading a theater with focus on homelessnessIt’s not lost on Maren Ward that she’s the executive director of a theater company focused on the stories of unhoused people, and she’s also acting in a play performing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, who famously tells visitors requesting alms for the poor: “Are there no prisons?” Ward has been a part of zAmya…
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Thankful for the natural world and all it provides
Read More: Thankful for the natural world and all it providesCityscape | Twin Cities urban geographer Bill Lindeke weighs in on city life, transportation, planning and more in his column delivered to your inbox weekly. “Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind. Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a…
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Facing legal threats, colleges back off race-based programs
Read More: Facing legal threats, colleges back off race-based programsThis story about pipeline programs was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. As might be expected of someone working toward a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine, Jocelyn Ricard has impressive credentials. There are scholarships —…
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Minnesota House GOP to challenge District 54A results
Read More: Minnesota House GOP to challenge District 54A resultsMPR reports the Minnesota House GOP will challenge the recount results in a Shakopee House race. “The recount may be over, but the investigation into the 21 missing ballots in District 54A is still ongoing,” House GOP Speaker-Designate Lisa Demuth said in a press release.” KTTC reports Byron community members are calling for the resignation…
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Ex-homicide investigator said to give Nazi-like salute during training
Read More: Ex-homicide investigator said to give Nazi-like salute during trainingMark Lillienfeld, a former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department homicide investigator, has been deemed ineligible for rehire after a police officer who attended one of his training lectures last year accused him of making racist comments and repeatedly giving a Nazi-like salute during the class, according to an internal affairs report. The officer, who is…
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UCLA’s fall class bucks diversity decline at elite colleges after affirmative action ban.
Read More: UCLA’s fall class bucks diversity decline at elite colleges after affirmative action ban.Madison Hamilton graduated from Canoga Park Senior High School in spring with multiple accolades: She was high school valedictorian with a 4.5 GPA who aced all eight of her AP tests. She tutored fellow students with special needs and founded a social club for them. And she received a rarefied admission offer from Stanford University,…
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California’s Inyo County flips back to red after 2020 surprise
Read More: California’s Inyo County flips back to red after 2020 surpriseFour years ago, rural — and staunchly conservative — Inyo County delivered an election day surprise when voters there chose Joe Biden over Donald Trump by just 14 votes. Before 2020, the rugged county in the Eastern Sierra had not backed a Democrat for president since 1964, when voters chose Lyndon B. Johnson. Longtime locals…
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His wives kept dying mysteriously. His secret poison: Insulin
Read More: His wives kept dying mysteriously. His secret poison: InsulinWilliam Dale Archerd drank highballs, married frequently and despised 9-to-5 employment. He was Arkansas-born, slender, with pale blue eyes and wavy silver hair. He inspired romantic devotion in women and trust in criminal confederates. For decades, his wives and acquaintances were fatally stricken with sudden, convulsion-inducing illness that coroners did not grasp as murder. His…
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Residents near polluted Tijuana River want more urgent action
Read More: Residents near polluted Tijuana River want more urgent actionRain is coming in south San Diego, which means higher water levels in the polluted Tijuana River — and, potentially, even worse air quality. Now, residents worry that the home air filters newly provided by San Diego County won’t be enough to curb the noxious air from the rising river. And despite increased federal and…
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Son of ‘El Mago,’ cartel legend killed in L.A., seeks new family legacy
Read More: Son of ‘El Mago,’ cartel legend killed in L.A., seeks new family legacyBefore sheriff’s deputies found his body on Thanksgiving morning last year, shot to death in a desolate stretch of warehouses and pallet yards west of Compton, Eduardo Escobedo Sr. had become rich beyond his dreams. The impoverished child of East Los Angeles had climbed the ranks of the Sinaloa cartel, the world’s largest drug trafficking…
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Blake Lively accuses director, co-star of “It Ends with Us” of sexual harassment, smear campaign
Actress Blake Lively accused “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni of sexually harassing her and seeking to smear her reputation after she spoke out about a “hostile work environment” that nearly derailed the film. In a legal complaint filed this week, Lively alleges she raised concerns about inappropriate behavior by Baldoni, who…
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Sacramento deputies arrest man on suspicion of beheading baby son
A Sacramento County father has been arrested on suspicion of beheading his 1-year-old son, sheriff’s officials said. Andrey Demskiy, 28, was arrested and booked Friday on felony charges of murder, assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, and corporal injury on a spouse in connection with the child’s death, according to…
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