Published by Nikki Ratay on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 4:00am
Julie Ray lives in a mobile home in Pearl River, Louisiana, with her two teenage daughters, Jerilynn and Jasmine. Her mother, Barbara, used to live there too, but she had a stroke before the pandemic hit and had to move to a nursing home. In May, she died there, from COVID-19.
Julie Ray lost her job at a local grocery store in March. Now she can’t pay her $700 a month rent and is in danger of eviction.
Published by Nikki Ratay on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 3:00am
Salt Lake City – A single mother with two advanced degrees who works as a licensed clinical social worker wants to buy a gun to protect herself and to go hunting and target shooting with her family.
But a federal felony conviction in 2008 for trying to cash a fraudulent $498.12 check at a Salt Lake grocery store years ago prohibits Mindy Vincent from ever possessing a firearm.
Published by Nikki Ratay on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 4:00am
New York – Dan Marshall’s toy store should have been crowded in the days before Christmas, with parents and grandparents buying gifts and children trying out games. Instead, only a handful of customers could be found in Mischief Toy Store at any time for short, efficient visits.
Published by Nikki Ratay on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 3:00am
New York – Thousands of minority-owned small businesses were at the end of the line in the government’s coronavirus relief program as many struggled to find banks that would accept their applications or were disadvantaged by the terms of the program.
Published by Nikki Ratay on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 2:00am
As visitors disappeared from Hawaii’s beaches in late March and job losses reached historic highs, local employers worried they wouldn’t get their share of federal Paycheck Protection Program loans.
Published by Nikki Ratay on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 1:00am
Salt Lake City – The two major newspapers in Salt Lake City have printed daily editions for more than a century, but now the presses will only be whirring once a week as they join other news organizations nationwide in shifting their focus online to stay afloat.
Published by Nikki Ratay on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 12:00am
Jackson, Wyo. – An environmental group has no legal standing to challenge the specifics of recovery plans for endangered species, a judge in Montana has ruled.
Published by Nikki Ratay on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 12:00am
Washington – A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
The ruling, handed down last week by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, concluded a lower court judge erred when he vacated Lisa Montgomery’s execution date.
Published by Nikki Ratay on Wed, 01/06/2021 - 3:00am
Beijing – China said Saturday that it would take necessary countermeasures in response to the New York Stock Exchange’s announcement that it would delist three major Chinese telecoms, in the latest flare-up of tensions between Beijing and Washington.
Published by Nikki Ratay on Wed, 01/06/2021 - 1:00am
Washington – Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska issued a pointed rebuke last week of GOP attempts to object to today’s Electoral College tally of the presidential election, warning colleagues against a “dangerous ploy” that could damage the nation’s civic traditions.