She worked as a shampoo girl at a hair salon when her father, Wilburn Edgar Smith, died in 1940. She started dating Jimmy Carter around that time and enrolled in Georgia Southwestern College. Carter’s work as an honorary chair on the President’s Commission on Mental Health led to the Mental Health Systems Bill, which aimed […]
But President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership. About this feeling that our nation is sliding off its shared foundation, and how we move forward together. I was disillusioned and angry, and I nearly failed out of school. This past year, I’ve watched COVID attack every rung of the ladder that helped me […]
Just wrapped around a little purse or something that was on the floor,” Scott Smith with All Things Wild Pest Control in Columbia, told WACH, adding that snake sightings this time of year are common. Smith said snakes and other pests can enter homes through a chimney or any cracks and walls, the television station […]
Arrested were James Jackson, 18; Jaylin White, 19; and Lafayette Whaley, 27. Jennifer McBride, 50, who brought the dogs to police, was also arrested, the LAPD said. According to the LAPD news release, McBride “responded to the reward email to return the dogs. Fischer was heard calling for help as one man yelled “give it […]
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The CDC issued a “no sail order” on March 14, 2020, three days after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. According to the agency’s website, the CDC “still recommends avoiding any travel on cruise ships, including river cruises, worldwide, because the risk of COVID-19 on cruise ships is very high. The CDC updated […]
But tonight, I can say because of you — the American people — our progress these past 100 days against one of the worst pandemics in history is one of the greatest logistical achievements our country has ever seen. A grandmother in Virginia told me she immediately took her granddaughter to the eye doctor — […]
“He was running a really high fever so I was driving on my way to urgent care,” Rozanski told WGRZ. “I could smell his tires burning. “She’s like call my husband, call my husband. …Read the full story
Recording engineer Al Schmitt, who won 20 Grammy Awards for his work with musical artists that included Ray Charles, Paul McCartney, Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan, died Monday, his family said. In 2015, Schmitt became the first music engineer-mixer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Schmitt won his first Grammy in […]
According to People magazine and E! News, the 39-year-old, who played Margaery Tyrell in the hit HBO series, shared the news of the birth on the “That’s After Life!” podcast Tuesday. …Read the full story
Call it the Texas version of the Running of the Bulls, the event in northern Spain that was canceled for the second consecutive year due to COVID-19. About 30 minutes later, the cow was off the freeway and resting in a nearby cemetery, KHOU reported. …Read the full story
In the first package, officers discovered cocaine hidden inside three paintings. Officers made a small cut in the artwork and found a white powder that turned out to be cocaine, CBP said in its news release. …Read the full story
The Rock Community Fire Protection District responded to the pool in Jefferson County on Monday, KMOV reported. After a few more tugs and an apology, the deer was dragged onto the ground and was set free. …Read the full story
“Mike always faced the challenges of life with grace and humility, and faced this, his final challenge, in the same way. Collins stayed in lunar orbit in 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin visited the moon’s surface, becoming the first men to step foot on a planet other than Earth. Collins was alone for […]
GERLACH, Nev. The high-profile art and community-focused festival, held in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, culminates each year with the torching of a multi-story, wooden sculpture of a human. …Read the full story
Thomas Hicks, 70, of Breckenridge, died after going into cardiac arrest Monday, KTXS reported. “I said, ‘Honey, please don’t go back in the back area, because those bees are back there,’ and he said, ‘I won’t, I promise,” Zoni Hicks told the television station. Joey Venekamp, a local beekeeper, was brought to the scene and […]
