Deep in the San Fernando Valley, there is an unremarkable warehouse where some of the few remaining pieces of Judy Garland’s life are stored. They are kept in cardboard boxes and film cans, never subjected to temperatures above 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The rare concert footage and home video recordings have…
Thirty years ago, Annette Milligan opened Independent Nursing Practice. After recently selling the business and retiring from nursing (though not from community support) she talks to Naomi Arnold about the changes she’s seen in health over her career. Abortion law hasn’t shifted since Annette Milligan was a teenager, and in…
Police say none of woman’s belongings are missing | Published: 2019-10-18 14:32 Deborah Anne Celmer PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT Montgomery County police said Friday that they have no evidence there was foul play in the disappearance of a Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School English teacher reported this…
A possible “person of interest” was captured on grainy security footage that Alabama authorities hope will help find a 3-year-old girl who vanished from a birthday party. The recording shows two little children, one of them Kamille McKinney, playing at the Tom Brown Village public housing complex before two men…
It’s hard to write about Omonye Desire Akahome, a recent graduate of the accelerated B.S.N. program and a former member of PROUD, without mentioning how fitting her name is. Desire is so central to everything she does: her desire to learn, grow, care for others, and give back. “I want…
The University of Illinois nickname of Illini, a call-out to the state’s namesake, first appeared in 1874 when the campus weekly newspaper changed its name from The Student to The Illini. All signs point to the term being coined and not formally assigned by the University. The term was used…
After multiple protests against a preaching group known as Untamed Truth, the University has provided Spinnaker with a statement regarding the group’s right to be there, as well as advice for students. “Thus far, the conduct is legal and the speech, recordings and other expressive activities are protected by the…
For my students at Telpochcalli Elementary School on Chicago’s Southwest Side, the most devastatingly difficult lesson is not mathematics or science, social studies, literacy or any other subject printed on a class schedule. It is the lesson that they are not important enough to warrant the basic human rights afforded…
Image copyrightPA Media Image captionIan Hemmens was convicted of assisting an offender last month An 81-year-old man has jailed for nine months for acting as a getaway driver for a man accused of stabbing a rival in a dispute over drugs. Ian Hemmens picked up Mahamud Sami after the attack…
COPIAH COUNTY, Miss. – Mississippi authorities have canceled an Amber Alert for a toddler and an infant taken from their great-grandmother’s home in Copiah County at gunpoint. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation issued the Amber Alert just after 9 p.m. Wednesday. Investigators said around 4:39 p.m. Central, the children’s biological mother…
