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A recently-opened center for the LGBTQI+ community in Ghana, has been shut down after it was raided by security forces in the West African country Wednesday. Alex Kofi Donkor, who heads the center named ‘LGBT+ Rights Ghana’ in the country’s capital, Accra, told CNN Thursday that he is now concerned for his safety after the

Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, the daughter of Dubai ruler and UAE Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has sent a letter to police in the UK asking them to investigate the alleged kidnapping of her older sister, Princess Shamsa, from Britain in 2000.​​ “In the summer of 2000 Shamsa escaped the family

Click here for updates on this story     Jonesboro, Georgia (Clayton News-Daily) — The family of Imani Bell has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against several Elite Scholars Academy employees, attorney Justin D. Miller announced Wednesday. The 16-year-old Elite Scholars Academy basketball player died of heat stroke in August 2019 when she collapsed while taking part

Click here for updates on this story     Albany, Georgia (Albany Herald) — Mitchell County Middle School was among four Georgia schools that participated this month in a nationwide initiative designed to promote inclusion among students, reinforcing a lesson made more vital by the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual program, held between Feb. 10 and Feb. 12

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said he is facing a military coup attempt after the general staff of the country’s armed forces called for his resignation. “I consider the statement of the general staff an attempt of a military coup. I am inviting all our supporters to the Republic Square right now. I will

Click here for updates on this story     PEA RIDGE, Arkansas (KFSM) — Black Hills Energy said Wednesday (Feb. 24) that natural gas customers might see an increase in their bills this March due to the rise in consumption of energy during last week’s historic winter storm. The company says that usage is the single largest

Click here for updates on this story     LANCASTER COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — At least one person has been taken to the hospital after a crash involving a school bus. According to emergency dispatch, the crash occurred around 6:55 a.m. on Feb. 25 on Lincoln Highway East near Eastbrook Road in East Lampeter Township. Dispatch says

A year of change in the name of racial justice is hard to quantify. But in the 2020 Impact Report released this week by the Black Lives Matter Movement, historic numbers speak volumes. The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) said in the report that it raised over $90 million in 2020 alone, giving

New York City middle schools reopened for in-person classes on Thursday as a surge of coronavirus cases that had shut schools in November continued to fade. This is the second such reopening for middle schools in New York City, the nation’s largest school district. Schools were first closed in March 2020 when the pandemic began,

Click here for updates on this story     Chicago (WLS) — A heartbroken mother is questioning why the man who killed her 20-month-old daughter is about to become a free man. Margaret ‘Gretta’ Morgan said her 20-month-old daughter Quortney Kley was just learning to speak and develop her personality when she was murdered and sexually assaulted

Click here for updates on this story     Kansas City, Missouri (KCTV ) — A man is now charged with first degree murder for the death of an 18-year-old Kansas City woman who disappeared on Valentine’s Day three years ago. A mushroom hunter found Vernece Brown’s remains in rural Cass County in April of 2018 near

This is a list of prominent American politicians killed in plane crashes. May 1, 1928 – New York Rep. Thaddeus C. Sweet (R). Sweet is killed in an airplane accident in Broome County, New York. October 28, 1947 – Oregon Governor Earl Snell (R). Snell dies in a plane crash during stormy weather near Klamath