Florida State

Orlando, FL

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded three organizations across the country more than $3.7 million to help keep low-income older adults in their homes and safely age in place, and one local nonprofit is benefiting the most. It’s part of HUD’s Older Adults Home Modification Program,...

HUD will grant $1.2M to a local nonprofit for low-income older adults to age in place

Arizona State

The Center Square

(The Center Square) –The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that allowing government employees to take paid time to take care of union-related activities is against the constitution's gift clause.
                In Gilmore v. Gallego determined that "release time" as part of a Memorandum of Understanding between the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees and the city is an incorrect use of taxpayer dollars.
                "The MOU’s release time provisions cost the...

Arizona Supreme Court unanimously rules against unions in labor suit

Salem, OH

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Northern Kentucky Tribune

Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

Wisconsin State

Kenosha, WI

A tumultuous event from four years ago is front of mind again in Wisconsin as candidates in the presidential race try to win over that swing state's voters. It all began when a white police officer shot a Black man in Kenosha in an incident that spiraled into unrest. Maayan Silver from member station WUWM reports on what voters think now.

Looking back at Kenosha four years after Jacob Blake's shooting

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The Lens

This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

Georgia State

Corinth, MS

Daily Coffee Press

Joshua Colston, a 50-year-old resident of Corinth, Mississippi, has been sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for illegally possessing firearms while traveling through Georgia.

Man Sentenced to 48 Months for Illegal Firearms Possession while traveling through Georgia

A federal judge has permanently blocked the restrictions Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican lawmakers placed on handling race-related issues in workplace training – part of the controversial Individual Freedom Act, better known as the “Stop WOKE Act.”

Judge permanently blocks part of Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE Act’

WashingtonExaminer

The Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, reshaped the world. It has scrambled Middle Eastern alliances, sparked conflict on college campuses, and led to war as Israel continues its effort to free the over 100 hostages still held in Gaza. But has it changed how Jews vote in the United States? For nearly a […]

Will Jewish voters abandon the Democrats?

New Jersey State

POLITICO

The legal maneuver is unlikely to succeed since it asks a federal judge to reverse a trial over which he presided.

Menendez asks judge to throw out guilty verdicts

Virginia State

(The Center Square) – Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus Virginia Rep. Bob Good has been unseated after losing a recount stemming from a close June primary race.
                The congressman conceded after a commonwealth judge determined state Sen. John McGuire the ultimate victor late Thursday evening. Good's term expires at the end of the calendar year.
                The two-term Republican trailed McGuire by 374 votes heading into the recount. As the...

Good loses congressional seat following primary recount

The Hill

Mexican judges are raising alarms in the United States over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed judicial reform, which opponents see as a death knell for Mexican democracy. The radical reform package could also rattle the business and investment environment in Mexico, the United States’s biggest trading partner. The judges are mounting a last-ditch effort…

Mexico’s judicial reform could be a headache-in-waiting for the United States

New Mexico State

Las Cruces, NM

Border Report

Speaker Mike Johnson came to Las Cruces knowing a handful of toss-up districts will decide control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November.

GOP pins House hopes on flipping New Mexico district

According to officials with the Southern District of Georgia, two recently unsealed federal indictments have charged 23 defendants in a series of broad conspiracies involving the use of drones to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana, and cell phones into state prisons in Georgia.

23 Defendants Charged in Federal Indictments for Drone-Smuggling Drug Operation in Georgia

Orange County, FL

For the first time in nearly 100 years, two cases of the mosquito-borne disease, dengue, were acquired in Orange County. “In modern times, we've not had any local transmission,” said Steve Harrison, the manager of Orange County Mosquito Control. He said the last cases probably were recorded in the mid-1930s.

First local cases of dengue in modern history are confirmed in Orange County

Denver, CO

David Heitz

In this week’s installment of Homeless Hotel Diary, broken glass again leads the lineup. Someone smashed a window in the lobby of Fusion Studios, the Colorado Coalition for the homeless property where I live and pay a third of my income for rent. This same person shattered the door to the case manager’s office and threw rocks through the windshield and side windows of the community van. Multiple residents told me who did the damage – the same person allegedly committed all three crimes – and last I knew that person still was at large. I could not get any official reports from Coalition staff. They were not available to speak with me Friday.

Opinion: Homeless Hotel Diary: Busted door, windows at Fusion Studios in Denver, internet spotty

OK, we're going to take a few minutes now to talk about periods, as in the menstrual kind. Every month, hundreds of millions of people have their periods. It's blood that literally ends up in the trash. But, you know, it's blood that some researchers consider a treasure trove of information that has long been overlooked by science. Now, there's a small group of researchers who are collecting period blood for medical research. Maddie Oatman spent months looking into why menstrual blood has been undervalued by science and what it could do for medicine. Welcome.

Long overlooked, menstrual blood is a treasure trove for science

Maine State

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

Tampa, FL

As the University of South Florida welcomed students back on campus Monday for the fall semester, USF President Rhea Law reiterated new policies regarding gatherings on campus and discrimination. They stem in large part from two separate protests that took place in April, when 13 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on...

USF releases new guidelines around demonstrations and hate speech

Kansas State

Missouri State

TheDailyBeast

A foul-mouthed MAGA candidate for Missouri secretary of state might be doing some cursing at herself Tuesday night after finishing outside the top five in the GOP primary—and failing to win even a single county. Valentina Gomez, who littered her campaign with offensive statements about gay and transgender people, used derogatory language towards Vice President Kamala Harris, and called Juneteenth a “ratchet” holiday—all the while espousing her religious views—acquired less than eight percent of the vote, bringing to an end a theatrical campaign that at one point saw her take a flamethrower to a pile of LGBTQ-themed books that she deemed were “indoctrinating” children. That action was one of several that drew condemnation in recent months. “Attention-seeking candidates like this are not great at reading the room: voters have resoundingly rejected book bans and candidates promising to ban books,” Sarah Kate Ellis, the CEO of GLAAD, an LGTBQ advocacy organization, told The Advocate back in February.Read it at The Kansas City StarRead more at The Daily Beast.

Trumpy Missouri Secretary of State Candidate Who Hurled Gay Slurs Loses Big

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Florida faculty union pushes back at a directive on textbook reviews

Saying it opposes “any form of academic censorship,” the United Faculty of Florida on Monday objected to a directive issued this month by university system Chancellor...

Florida faculty union pushes back at a directive on textbook reviews

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