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Sagadahoc County, ME

Lewiston, ME

The Maine Monitor

Editor’s note: This story contains references to suicide. When a bill to strengthen Maine’s yellow flag law went into effect earlier this month, Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry said he felt a sense of relief.

Law enforcement officers can now get a warrant to take someone into protective custody

New Jersey State

Morristown, NJ

Morristown Minute

MORRISTOWN, N.J. - Alex Bravo-Castro was arrested on charges of distributing and possessing cocaine in Morristown, New Jersey. The Morris County Prosecutor's Office announced that Bravo-Castro is accused of distributing approximately 350 grams of cocaine on August 29, 2024, an amount with an estimated street value of $27,000.

Morristown Man Arrested for Cocaine Distribution

Georgia State

Floyd County, GA

Daily Coffee Press

According to officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), three former officers from the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), one GDC investigator, and a former Floyd County deputy have been charged for the aggravated assault of an inmate at the Floyd County Jail.

Five Former Georgia Law Enforcement Officers Charged With Aggravated Assault Against Inmate

A majority of Black Americans have lost trust in U.S. institutions, believing these systems were intentionally designed to hold them back. These findings come from a recent Pew Research Center report, which highlights widespread perceptions of unfair treatment within the nation’s key systems. The report reveals that most Black...

Black Americans believe U.S. institutions were designed to hold them back, according to new report

Connecticut State

Connecticut Public

The updated COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer are available now at clinics and pharmacies across Connecticut. “Every year we get the updated influenza vaccine, it's the same thing for the COVID vaccine,” said James Mansi, vice president of medical affairs for the U.S. at Moderna. “Our updated vaccine was developed to be a close match to the variants that are currently circulating and causing the surge in COVID activity at the moment.”

As latest batch of COVID shots rolls out, CT communities work to counter vaccine hesitancy

How? According to Bloomberg, Google has trained one of its foundation AI models with 300 million pieces of audio that included coughs, sniffles and labored breathing, to identify, for example, someone battling tuberculosis. Now, it has teamed up with an Indian company — Salcit Technologies, a respiratory healthcare AI startup...

Google is working on AI that can hear signs of sickness

Denver, CO

David Heitz

A Denver City Council committee will consider Tuesday changing the term “feminine hygiene products” to the more inclusive “menstrual hygiene products” in city sales tax documents.

Denver considers name change for feminine hygiene products

Mississippi State

Warren County, MS

BOVINA, Miss. — Seven people were killed and dozens were injured in Mississippi after a commercial bus overturned on Interstate 20 on Saturday morning, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol. Six passengers were pronounced dead at the scene and another died at a hospital, according to a news release....

Mississippi bus crash kills 7 and injures 37

Latin Times

The federal government is processing citizenship requests at the fastest rate in a decade, addressing a backlog that accumulated during the Trump administration and the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the close to 3.3 million immigrants who have become citizens during the Biden administration, processing speed sits at under five months, on par with 2013 and 2014.

Immigrants are becoming U.S. citizens at the fastest average rate in a decade

Wyoming State

Cheyenne, WY

WyoFile

WHITE MOUNTAIN—“That’s a lot of horses,” lamented Cheyenne resident Robyn Smith from a high-desert ridgeline. It wasn’t her first exasperated exclamation. “Argh, oh crap,” was her immediate reaction to learning a federal judge had given the Bureau of Land Management the OK to proceed with plans to fully remove two wild horse herds from the landscape in southwest Wyoming.

BLM wins two lawsuits, clearing way for elimination of two Wyoming wild horse herds

The Conversation U.S.

These findings suggest that encouraging white men to reflect on what happens to them on the job could make them better allies of their co-workers who are women or people of color.

White men who have been mistreated at work are more likely to notice and report harassment − new research

When former President Donald Trump reposted a fake image of Taylor Swift striking a pose like the iconic Uncle Sam recruiting poster, it pushed to the forefront a topic that goes beyond politics: unauthorized digital replicas.

Taylor Swift fake posted by Trump highlights challenges in AI misuse regulation

Monroe County, GA

Since the beginning of August, ten individuals who worked in law enforcement in Georgia counties have been arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, primarily on charges related to offenses against inmates. The GBI's most recent case of this kind resulted in the arrest of a 39-year-old jailer from Monroe County.

GBI Arrests Former Georgia County Jailer on Charges of Aggravated Battery and More

Chicago, IL

Four people were killed on a commuter train in the Chicago area on Labor Day, police said. Police were dispatched to a train station in Forest Park, a village 10 miles west of Chicago, at about 5:30 a.m. after receiving a call that three people were shot. Three people were pronounced dead on the scene, while one was transported to the hospital and died there, Forest Park police said.

4 people were killed on a train in the Chicago area on Labor Day, police say

Fox News

Lawful permanent residents are becoming naturalized United States citizens at a pace unseen since 2013 and 2014, potentially reshaping the electorate ahead of the election.

Immigrants becoming citizens at breakneck speed as election approaches: report

The US Sun

THE FBI’s once most wanted conman is now speaking out about the crimes that cost him 12 years of his life in federal prison. Matthew Cox, a notorious former conman and mortgage fraudster, was once among the FBI’s Most Wanted for his intricate and highly lucrative schemes. His journey from a real estate professional to […]

I was the FBI’s most wanted con-man – I stole $55m using fake baby names & tricked cops twice before I was caught

Merrick Hanna is, by any metric, a TikTok star. The 19-year-old has more than 32 million followers on the platform and about 20 million across YouTube and Instagram. He’s known for his dancing videos, typically set to viral audio clips and pop songs. Attending the Democratic National Convention definitely...

From lost followers to backlash in the comments, content creators reflect on the DNC

The Guardian

Joe Moore, who for years investigated the Ku Klux Klan, issues a chilling warning for the 2024 election and beyond

FBI informant’s book predicts far-right violence: ‘we should be afraid’

Learning a new language can be cumbersome for native English speakers but a new mom cracked the code to learning Spanish easily. Pharmacist Natalie Crockett who goes by @natttcrock on TikTok started her Spanish lessons earlier this June when she was expecting a baby. She didn't want her Mexican husband and soon-to-be-born son to be talking behind her back in Spanish. So, she resorted to the help of a book called "Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach." She had been posting a video series of her hackish Spanish lessons and the internet finds it better than Duolingo.

Woman's hilarious yet effective hack to learn Spanish garners praise: 'Switching from Duolingo'

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J. Souza

What happens when a cruise passenger forgets a personal item on the cruise ship?. Once someone has disembarked the ship at the final port there is no going back. Even if they know exactly where they left something and want to retrieve it, they won't be able to get it.

I Left My Husband's Glasses on the Ship: Cruise Line Explains to Passenger How to Get Items Back

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