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Jackson, Mississippi CNN — Hunter Elward, a former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy who faced the most serious of federal charges against him and five other officers in the torture of two Black men last year, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in a highly emotional hearing Tuesday. Elward pleaded guilty in August to federal charges […]
SACRAMENTO — Sacramento County will launch a pilot program aimed at helping African American and Native American families in poverty. The program experiments with guaranteed basic income – $725 a month – but even the most skeptical members of the county Board of Supervisors want the public to rethink the concept this time. County supervisor […]
Black History Month provides all Americans with an opportunity to honor, recognize and celebrate hundreds of years of Black history and heritage, as well as their achievements and contributions to our world, country and communities. Since 1976, every U.S. President has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. A growing number of […]
More people moved to a county rich with citrus groves located between two of Florida’s most populous metro areas than to any other county in the U.S. last year, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. More than 29,300 people moved last year to the county between Tampa and Orlando, two metro areas where
Oklahoma County Republicans on Saturday censured U.S. Sen. James Lankford over his work on a failed border security deal. The overwhelming vote to censure the senior Republican senator came at a party convention in Oklahoma City. “The people have spoken,” the county party chair, Ken Warner, told The Oklahoman. “It’s really because he’s said he’s […]
24 February 2024, 00:19 GMT Updated 1 hour ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Fani Willis has admitted to a relationship with Nathan Wade, a prosecutor she hired for the Trump case. Donald Trump’s legal team says mobile phone data suggest two prosecutors investigating him did not tell the truth about their relationship. The […]
Months after Republican Rep. Debbie Lesko’s surprise announcement that she would not seek reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives, the Peoria-area member of Congress has filed to run for a seat on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. Lesko will run to represent District 4, a conservative-leaning area that stretches across the northwestern . […]
CNN — As a parent, Chuck Walter said he’s used to signing papers that his children bring home from school. But Walter said a recent request from his daughter’s teacher caught him off guard. Earlier this month, Walter was among the parents at Coral Way K-8 Center, a Miami-Dade County public school, who were asked to . . […]
BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) – Following the death of Deputy Greg McCowan, the Blount County community has continued to pay their respects at a temporary memorial outside of the Blount County Justice Center. “Without the community, you ain’t got no support,” said a former law enforcement partner, Travis Palmer. ‘Always Smiling’: Blount County Sheriff’s . […]
A brazen broad daylight heist earlier this week at a United States Post Office in Orange County was captured on camera when thieves nearly ran down a postal worker as they tried to get away with a haul of mail. Cellphone footage of the incident posted to Instagram shows thieves in a dark-colored four-door […]