When a dormant pecan farm in the neighborhoods of south Atlanta closed, the land was soon rezoned and earmarked to become townhouses. But when the townhouses never came to fruition and with the lot remaining in foreclosure, the Conservation Fund bought it in 2016 to develop an unexpected project: the nation’s largest free food forest.
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The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc for families across the US, as school closures and social distancing have made it difficult to provide for kids. But in Louisiana, families are faring worse than in any other state, according to Save the Children. The global non-profit dedicated to protecting children examined three hardships affecting kids
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Locally owned and operated, Love’s Bakery, a fixture in Hawaii for over 169 years, will cease operations at the end of March due to losses attributable to Covid-19. Interim president Daryce Hamamoto submitted a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice (WARN) letter to the Department of
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Americans have received some good news lately about the coronavirus. But the country is not yet in the clear, experts warn. A third Covid-19 vaccine — Johnson & Johnson’s single shot — is now on its way to states across the country. And Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations have generally been dropping for weeks. But case
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — The federal government has revamped Canada’s Divorce Act in hopes that the amended legislation will promote the best interests of children and make the family justice system more efficient. The new amendments, which now include a section on family violence, mark the first
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — There are indications that Liberty and Justice may have their first egg of the 2021 season. Liberty and Justice, a pair of bald eagles, have been at the Arconic nest for about 12 years. Arconic spokesman John Riches said it appeared the first
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — A small new study out of Italy found that children as young as four months old did not experience any respiratory change as a result of wearing a surgical mask, raising questions about mask advice for young children. The study, published Tuesday in
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HEREFORD, Arizona (Arizona Daily Star) — In the weeks since President Biden paused border wall construction, a broad coalition of advocacy groups in Southern Arizona and across the nation wasted no time letting him know exactly where they want him to tear it down. A coalition of nearly
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — Fire has a voice. You’ll soon be able to hear it. Oklahoma hip-hop artists are uniting to commemorate the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre with a multimedia project titled Fire in Little Africa. Rappers, singers, producers, poets, musicians and visual artists
Continue Reading An SUV packed with people and a semitruck hauling trailers of gravel slammed into each other in Imperial County, California, on Tuesday morning, leaving 15 dead and others hospitalized, officials said. Overhead video of the scene shows the brutal aftermath of the crash, with the jack-knifed semitruck smashed into the left side of the SUV.
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French Catholic clergy could have abused at least 10,000 minors and other vulnerable people since 1950, according to an independent investigation set up by the Church in France. The Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) “estimates that the number of victims could reach ‘at least ten thousand,’” it said in a statement
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Hundreds of schoolgirls who were kidnapped at gunpoint from their boarding school in Nigeria have been released, authorities said. The girls were abducted on Friday by armed men who raided their state-run school in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara State, the police said. Yusuf Idris, a spokesman for the regional governor Bello Matawalle, said Tuesday that all
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the life of convicted DC-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo. Personal Birth date: February 18, 1985 Birth place: Kingston, Jamaica Birth name: Lee Boyd Malvo Father: Leslie Malvo Mother: Una James Marriage: Wife’s name unavailable publicly (2020-present) Other Facts Currently in prison awaiting resentencing for multiple charges stemming from a multi-state shooting
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TUCSON, Arizona (Arizona Daily Star) — Mari Katherine Scruggs carries her laptop as she walks around her classroom, peeking over her students’ shoulders as they work on their own laptops at their desks. She reminds a couple of the eighth graders — for a second time — to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Two teen suspects were arrested in connection with a gunpoint carjacking in southeast Portland. Officers responded to Southeast 31st Avenue and Pine Street at 12:50 a.m. Sunday. The victim’s car was stolen at gunpoint by two people who drove away in the car, according
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BUFFALO, New York (The Buffalo News) — During the day, Michael Masecchia was a respected English teacher at Buffalo’s Grover Cleveland High School, where colleagues considered him a role model who genuinely cared about his students. He also coached youth football and high school soccer, including an International
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DANVILLE, Virginia (Danville Register & Bee) — There are now 12 cases of COVID-19 at Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute. The facility halted admissions of new patients Monday since a third COVID-19 outbreak at the facility last week. That outbreak has increased since five patients and two staff
Continue Reading The Jackson County prosecutor in Missouri will not charge the officer who shot and killed Donnie Sanders in March 2020, according to a statement from Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker. Sanders, who was unarmed, was shot on March 12, 2020, by an unnamed Kansas City Missouri Police (KCPD) officer, and died the next day. An independent
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Expressing disgust over the nature of the allegations, a judge on Tuesday denied bail for a man accused of critically wounding a 5-year-old boy in a hail of gunfire on Saturday. Mobile County District Judge Spiro Cheriogotis noted that bail was “academic,” since Reginald
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MANITOWOC COUNTY, Wisconsin (WDJT) — An Ohio man is accused of picking up a 12-year-old girl he met online from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. According to the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office, on Feb. 27, just before 2:30 a.m., deputies were dispatched to a residence in the township of Eaton,
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