Murfreesboro, NC

Columbus, OH

Eric Skeeters returns to George Mason as women’s basketball’s director of operations after serving as the men’s assistant coach for two seasons (2013-2015). After leaving George Mason, Skeeters was as an assistant at UMBC for two seasons before landing his first head coaching position at Delaware State.

Skeeters joins George Mason WBB staff as Director of Operations

Kentucky State

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Northern Kentucky Tribune

Kentucky’s Community Actions Partnerships have announced the starts date for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Summer Subsidy, aimed at helping Kentucky households offset summer cooling costs.

LIHEAP Summer Subsidy program to help with summer cooling costs to begin enrollment July 16

Missouri State

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Fulton, MO

CJ Coombs

Bringing them home: for 40 years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has been helping to locate missing children. Since July 1, 2024, according to the NCMEC, 15 children have been reported missing in the U.S. Not included in that number are those who have been missing in Missouri since June 2024.

Seven teenagers have been missing in Missouri since June 2024

Georgia State

DeanLand

Two rural Georgia counties lost more than 12% of their population over the past three years, leading a worrisome trend in many of Georgia's rural counties and smaller towns. The populations of Telfair County and Stewart County, both largely rural counties with agricultural based economies and located in the Southern half of Georgia, shrunk by more than 12% each from 2020 to 2023, according to data from the US Census Bureau.

Georgia's Fastest Shrinking Rural Counties Share Big Problems

Rhode Island State

Head coach Amy Kvilhaug adds Tori Constantin as an assistant coach to the softball program, focusing on defense, hitting, and recruiting. Constantin, previously at Rhode Island, brings expertise in coaching outfielders and improving fielding percentages. She also contributed to hitting instructions, notably helping the team achieve a record number of hits in 2023.

Tori Constantin: Rhode Island Experience Adds Depth to BC Softball Coaching

Bucks County Beacon

“[I]nvoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God,” the Constitution of the Confederate States of America composed by southern slaveholders in 1861 sought to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” The authors of Project 2025, the latest playbook for restructuring the federal government in order to accomplish the policy goals of Christian Nationalists, similarly declare their manifesto will “decide America’s future” by securing their “God-given individual rights to live freely” and exercise dominion over others.

Legislating Inequality: The Christian Confederate Roots of Project 2025

North Charleston, SC

Charleston Southern women’s basketball will welcome back a familiar face for the upcoming season, as former men’s basketball player, Cortez Mitchell, will join Clarisse White‘s staff as an assistant coach. A former member of the Buccaneer men’s basketball team from 2016-18, Mitchell returns to Charleston Southern for...

Mitchell named Assistant Women’s Coach at Charleston Southern

When it comes to living a longer life in Georgia, location matters. And living in one of Georgia's top counties for longevity can add up to 13 years of extra life expectancy as compared to its bottom-ranked counties.

Huge Life Expectancy Gap Revealed Between Georgia's Urban, Rural Counties

Farmville, VA

Longwood men's basketball coach Griff Aldrich has added Aaron Smith as an assistant coach and Myo Baxter-Bell as the team's director of player development. Smith brings nearly a decade of collegiate coaching experience, most recently from Louisiana Tech. Last season, under Smith's coaching, Louisiana Tech had a 22-10 record and...

New Longwood Men’s Basketball Staff: Aaron Smith & Myo Baxter-Bell Bring Strong Coaching Experience

Savannah, GA

The Current GA

A federal jury has convicted two Georgia brothers of colluding to inflate the price of concrete that their businesses supplied to numerous government and private construction contracts in Coastal Georgia, according to the Department of Justice.

Federal jury convicts 2 for fixing concrete prices in Coastal Georgia

For hours, John Pernorio repeatedly mashed the call button at his bedside in the Heritage Hills nursing home in Rhode Island. A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longer walk. The antibiotics he was taking made him need to go to the bathroom frequently. But he could get there only if someone helped him into his wheelchair.

States set minimum staffing levels for nursing homes. Residents suffer when rules are ignored or waived.

Harvard, IL

Harvard softball has added Xiao Gin to the coaching staff as a new assistant coach, where she will play a crucial role in coaching the pitching staff for the 2025 season. Gin served as an assistant travel ball coach for the Aspire Softball Academy and California Cruisers from 2021 to 2023.

Harvard Softball Enlists Xiao Gin, Analytics and Biomechanics Expert, for Coaching Team in 2025

Chatham County, NC

Just days before a new law went into effect in Georgia that allows more sweeping challenges to the state’s voter rolls, a resident of Chatham County last week submitted the names of nearly 900 people she said should be taken off the rolls.

Bolstered by new Georgia law, woman challenges around 900 voter registrations in Chatham County

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Chowan hires new Director of Athletic Communications

MURFREESBORO – Madisen Lavelle has been hired as the new Director of Athletic Communications at Chowan University. Patrick Mashuda, Chowan’s Associate Vice President for Athletics, made...

Chowan hires new Director of Athletic Communications

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