Crowds, Tight Security Expected for Cincinnati Pride Parade
Organizers expect big crowds and authorities plan tight security for Cincinnati's parade and festival events celebrating Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month. Organizers expect attendance to top last year's estimated 90,000 people when the Cincinnati Pride parade steps off at about 11 a.m. Saturday. They say the slayings this month at an Orlando gay nightclub have raised interest in participation. "This year we march, once again, to show that we will not give in to hate," Cinc..>> view originalBan on transgender troops to be lifted July 1
According to officials, the Pentagon plans to announce the repeal of its ban on transgender service members July 1, a controversial decision that would end nearly a year of internal wrangling. USA TODAYDefense Secretary Ash Carter(Photo: Romeo Ranoco, Reuters Pool/AP)WASHINGTON — The Pentagon plans to announce the repeal of its ban on transgender service members July 1, a controversial decision that would end nearly a year of internal wrangling among the services on how to allow those t..>> view original3 killed, 2 others injured in Maryland shooting
Authorities say three people are dead and two others wounded in a shooting Friday night in District Heights, Md. Prince George’s County fire officials say all five adult victims were found inside a house in the 3100 block of Orleans Street at around 9:43 p.m. The two surviving victims were taken to a local trauma center. Prince George's County police said one of them is in critical condition while the other is in stable condition. Police said the shooting does not appear to be random and the ..>> view originalArizona says it has run out of drugs for executions
Arizona has run out of execution drugs, including a sedative implicated in botched lethal injections, according to a filing on Friday in a court case challenging the U.S. state's execution methods.The Arizona Department of Corrections' supply of midazolam, a sedative, expired on May 31 and it has not been able to replace it, state lawyers said in the filing in Phoenix's U.S. District Court."What is more, the Department's source of midazolam has vanished under pressure from death penalty oppone..>> view originalCrews rescue the stranded in West Virginia flooding; 23 dead
All Karol Dunford has left is a dirty nightgown, caked in mud from the floodwaters that ravaged her West Virginia town and killed at least 23. She lost the trailer where she lived for 30 years. She lost her wheelchair, her medicine and her best friend, a little Chihuahua named Frankie. As the deluge swamped southeast West Virginia on Thursday evening, Dunford, 71, sat immobile in her wheelchair in her living room as the pitch-black floodwater rose past her ankles, to her knees, up to the armres..>> view originalDistrict finds BLS mishandled racially charged incidents
School Department investigators have determined that several racially charged incidents involving Boston Latin School students were mishandled by administrators, including one accusation against a student with whom the headmaster has a personal connection, according to an official with knowledge of the review. The accused student allegedly ridiculed two female students, one white and one African-American, the Globe has learned. Advertisement Headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta, in an interview Frid..>> view originalDemocrats approved platform draft with Sanders' imprint
ST. LOUIS — Democrats approved a draft of the party platform early Saturday that includes steps to break up large Wall Street banks, advocates for a $15 an hour wage and urges the abolition of the death penalty, reflecting the influence of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Supporters of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton defeated measures pushed by Sanders’ allies that would have promoted a Medicare-for-all single-payer health care system, a carbon tax to address climate change..>> view originalDeadly Kern County wildfire grows to 46 square miles — and it's barely contained
LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. — Near this man-made lake about 45 miles northeast of Bakersfield, a 2-acre fire has grown to an inferno that stretches over 46 square miles, killing two people and destroying at least 100 homes and other structures.The frantic effort to control the raging Erskine fire in the southern Sierra Nevada has drawn firefighters and emergency crews from across the state to the rural towns along the southern part of Lake Isabella. The blaze’s path has been marked by ruin: charred f..>> view originalNewspaper: Man given clemency in murder case faces new probe - Appeal
Posted: Saturday, June 25, 2016 12:08 am | Updated: 3:01 am, Sat Jun 25, 2016. Newspaper: Man given clemency in murder case faces new probe Associated Press | BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that a Montana man who was granted clemency by the governor after he spent three decades behind bars for a murder he says he did not commit is now under investig..>> view original
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