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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Flooding took away the love of his life after 35 years without a day spent apart

ERWIN, Tenn. — Jerry and Sibrina Barrett never spent a day apart over 35 years. ‘Just trying to enjoy life’ She was 17 and he was 20 when they met, and “35 years later, we never left each other’s side,” Jerry said. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print At first they would cruise …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

Georgia makes many more students than expected eligible for school vouchers

Associated Press

ATLANTA — Hundreds of thousands of students in Georgia will be eligible for $6,500 vouchers to pay for private school tuition or home-schooling expenses — far more than many legislators expected — under an expansive interpretation of the law by the new agency running the program. But the Georgia Education Savings Authority, a body created by the law, wrote rules …

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1 month ago

My Brother Married a Writer. She’s Used It as an Excuse Their Entire Marriage.

Slate

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. I’d venture to say that if Grace has been writing “for years,” and her writing is a priority for her, she is most likely not only an actual writer but also a pretty typical one. He’s spoken openly of wanting to keep the business in the family, and was very disappointed when …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Santa’s annual train visit delivers hope and magic to one corner of coal country

Associated Press

ON BOARD THE SANTA TRAIN — Since 1943, the people of Appalachian Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee have looked forward to Santa’s arrival. The Santa Train marks its 82nd running this year, bringing presents and joy to small towns along a 110-mile portion of the CSX rail line tucked into remote coal-country river valleys. I count the days down,” said Sandra …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Experts say Trump is a threat to trans health. His next term is already alarming the queer community

Salon

Editors’ Note: This article discusses suicide and contains details about mental health crises. “This is evidence-based and life-saving care.” The first Trump Administration notoriously enacted a host of anti-LGBTQ policies, including repealing health care regulations that prohibited discrimination based on gender identity, implementing a ban on transgender troops, and rescinding a policy that allowed transgender and intersex inmates to be …

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2 months ago

My 'Long Covid' turned out to be incurable lung cancer - even though I've never touched a cigarette in my life

Daily Mail

A mother of-three has revealed the unlikely symptoms of her deadly lung cancer — which didn't include a cough. Devastatingly, the scans revealed a 'mass' in her left lung, which was later found to be non-small cell lung cancer — the most common type of the disease. Melanie Erwin, 57, from London, pictured with her partner Sarah, 39, believed she …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Federal Union Slams Montana GOP Senate Candidate’s ‘Disdain’ For Wildland Firefighters

Huff Post

Tim Sheehy, the founder of Bridger Aerospace and a U.S. Republican Senate candidate for Montana, is pictured in a hangar in Bozeman, Montana, on Jan. 18, 2024. Louise Johns/Bloomberg via Getty Images A union representing thousands of federal wildland firefighters excoriated Montana GOP Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy after he accused firefighters of dragging their feet to put out infernos and …

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2 months, 1 week ago

One family's frantic race to save their mother as Helene flooded a Tennessee factory

NPR

One family's frantic race to save their mother as Helene flooded a Tennessee factory toggle caption Jeff Roberson/AP ERWIN, Tenn. — On the morning of Sept. 27, Bertha Mendoza called her son Guillermo, urging him and his children to stay indoors because of the bad weather. Sponsor Message toggle caption Greg Coleman In the aftermath, victims' family members and surviving …

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3 months ago

Mexican immigrant families plagued by grief, questions after plant workers swept away by Helene

LA Times

Monica Hernandez’s husband, Daniel Delgado, top, and their 16-year-old son Angel, right, mourn her loss after she was swept away by floodwaters in Erwin, Tenn. With shaking hands, Daniel Delgado kissed a photo of his wife, Monica Hernandez, before lighting a candle in a supermarket parking lot. “We’re all still wondering.” Impact Plastics President Gerald O’Connor has said no employees …

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3 months ago

Factory workers say company told them not to evacuate from Hurricane Helene. 11 were swept away in floodwaters

The Independent

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3 months, 1 week ago

Tennessee Investigating Factory That Saw 11 Workers Swept Away In Helene’s Floodwaters

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee state authorities said Wednesday they are investigating the company that owns a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by cataclysmic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Helene. Impact Plastics said in a statement Monday that it “continued to monitor weather conditions” Friday and that managers dismissed employees “when water began to cover the …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Helene’s flooding swept away 11 workers at a Tennessee factory. Now the state is investigating

LA Times

In this image from a video, people can be seen on the roof of the Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, Tenn., on Friday. Tennessee authorities said Wednesday they are investigating the company behind a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Helene. Impact Plastics said in a statement Monday that it “continued …

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9 months ago

‘Please leave!’ A Jewish UC Berkeley dean confronts pro-Palestinian activist at his home

LA Times

UC Berkeley law school student Malak Afaneh, left, and law professor Catherine Fisk tussle at the home of Fisk and her husband, law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky on Tuesday. VIDEO | 02:39 Altercation between pro-Palestinian protestor and law professor at UC Berkeley law school dean’s home A Palestinian-American student is saying she was assaulted and denied free speech rights when …

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1 year ago

Amateur Missouri investigator, YouTube creator helps break decade-old missing person cold case

Associated Press

— A decade-old cold case centered on a Navy veteran who disappeared without a trace in rural Missouri is hot again after an amateur sleuth and YouTube creator’s help led police to unidentified human remains. Yvonne Erwin-Bowen, Erwin’s sister, said she felt emotions beyond pain, frustration, aggravation and sorrow that she “can’t even label.” “This is one of those cases …

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1 year ago

One of California’s largest ICE detention centers could close. Staff urge Biden to keep it open

LA Times

Detainees have complained of inhumane conditions at the Adelanto detention center since it opened in 2011. Workers at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, one of California’s largest immigrant detention facilities, are urging the federal government not to shut it down next year following discussions over its potential closure, according to the union that represents many of them. “If you close …

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1 year, 1 month ago

'To me, you are America': Xi Jinping's interactions with American people

China Daily

Xi Jinping presents the granddaughter of his old friend Sarah Lande with a panda doll in Muscatine, a small city in Iowa, the United States, Feb 15, 2012. In his 2012 trip to the United States, Xi, apart from reuniting with old friends, also met "new friends." Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan greet teachers and students during their …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf has died at 64. He shot themes from gay nightlife to the royal family

Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Erwin Olaf, an acclaimed Dutch photographer whose work documented topics ranging from gay nightlife in Amsterdam to portraits of the Dutch royal family, has died. Olaf’s highly stylized photos, with lighting often influenced by Dutch master painters Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer, were exhibited at galleries around the world during a career spanning decades. “Erwin …

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1 year, 3 months ago

New Indonesian industrial park on Borneo, feted as ‘green,’ will be powered by coal, report says

Associated Press

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A vast industrial park being built on the tropical island of Borneo that has attracted billions of dollars in foreign and domestic investment is damaging the environment in an area where endangered animals live and migrate. “In a world already living with climate stress, each of these countries is grappling with how to be part of the …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Husband still mourning wife killed by foul ball at Dodger Stadium

LA Times

Erwin Goldbloom still is reeling over the loss of his wife, Linda Goldbloom, who was killed after a foul ball hit her in the head at Dodger Stadium five years ago. “I was pissed off because it was like the Dodgers were saying, ‘We’re above this, we don’t want people to know because they won’t come to the game.’ To …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Inside Tina Turner’s house near Zurich in Switzerland, where she lived with husband Erwin Bach

The Independent

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1 year, 7 months ago

The best Tina Turner celebrity tributes

Daily Mail

News of Tina Turner's death on Wednesday led to an outpouring of grief and tributes from her adoring fans and grieving friends. 'I shall hold these words close to my heart for the rest of my days' Good times: Oprah Winfrey had several of Turner's appearances on her eponymous talk show to choose from as she looked back at her …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Tina Turner, resilient singer hailed as the ‘Queen of Rock and Roll,’ dies at 83

CNN

CNN — Tina Turner, the dynamic rock and soul singer who rose from humble beginnings and overcame a notoriously abusive marriage to become one of the most popular female artists of all time, has died, her family announced in a statement. 1 hit, “What’s Love Got to Do With It.” Before long Turner was a global superstar, commanding MTV with …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Sydney influencer slammed over 'degrading' act towards homeless man

Daily Mail

A controversial YouTube star has been slammed for throwing cash on a Homeless man in Sydney in a stunt that has been described as 'degrading' by some outraged viewers. Luke Erwin, a social media personality based on the Gold Coast, is seen raining $5 notes over the man's head as he sits on the pavement in his latest TikTok video. …

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2 years, 7 months ago

民相亲关键在青年——记习主席重返塔科马之旅

China Daily

2015年9月23日，国家主席习近平参观美国塔科马市林肯中学。这是习近平接受学生们赠送的橄榄球衣。（图片来源：新华社） The visit was nearly seven years ago, but it is etched so clearly on Nathan Bowling's mind that it is as though it happened yesterday. 鲍林回忆说：“我们曾讨论学生们是否可以和习主席握手。我当时觉得，‘这不可能。’后来，当习主席伸出手来与孩子们握手时，第一个孩子尖叫起来，他们就像见到了摇滚巨星一样激动。他们理解这一刻的重要意义。” Among the many things Bowling clearly recalls about the visit is what Xi said about China. 作为林肯女子篮球队的一员，肖特尔·贝瑞现场见证了这场演说。她记得最清晰的是，习主席还为师生们带来了一个大大的惊喜，他用中文说，将邀请100名林肯中学的学生去中国做客，这令人激动的消息经口译员现场翻译后，所有人都欢呼起来，希望成为被选中的幸运儿。 "Initially, I didn't understand why President Xi was visiting my high school out of all …

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Flooding took away the love of his life after 35 years without a day spent apart

Georgia makes many more students than expected eligible for school vouchers

My Brother Married a Writer. She’s Used It as an Excuse Their Entire Marriage.

Santa’s annual train visit delivers hope and magic to one corner of coal country

Experts say Trump is a threat to trans health. His next term is already alarming the queer community

My 'Long Covid' turned out to be incurable lung cancer - even though I've never touched a cigarette in my life

Federal Union Slams Montana GOP Senate Candidate’s ‘Disdain’ For Wildland Firefighters

One family's frantic race to save their mother as Helene flooded a Tennessee factory

Mexican immigrant families plagued by grief, questions after plant workers swept away by Helene

Factory workers say company told them not to evacuate from Hurricane Helene. 11 were swept away in floodwaters

Tennessee Investigating Factory That Saw 11 Workers Swept Away In Helene’s Floodwaters

Helene’s flooding swept away 11 workers at a Tennessee factory. Now the state is investigating

‘Please leave!’ A Jewish UC Berkeley dean confronts pro-Palestinian activist at his home

Amateur Missouri investigator, YouTube creator helps break decade-old missing person cold case

One of California’s largest ICE detention centers could close. Staff urge Biden to keep it open

'To me, you are America': Xi Jinping's interactions with American people

Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf has died at 64. He shot themes from gay nightlife to the royal family

New Indonesian industrial park on Borneo, feted as ‘green,’ will be powered by coal, report says

Husband still mourning wife killed by foul ball at Dodger Stadium

Inside Tina Turner’s house near Zurich in Switzerland, where she lived with husband Erwin Bach

The best Tina Turner celebrity tributes

Tina Turner, resilient singer hailed as the ‘Queen of Rock and Roll,’ dies at 83

Sydney influencer slammed over 'degrading' act towards homeless man

民相亲关键在青年——记习主席重返塔科马之旅