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Editorial Roundup: Indiana
Terre Haute Tribune-Star. Jan. 6, 2021. Editorial: Indiana up to the NCAA challenge. No state better equipped to handle college tourneys March Madness is no stranger to Indiana. Actually, college basketball’s “big dance” feels quite at home in the Hoosier state. The hoops sport, at every...
France launches service to make deadbeat parents pay
PARIS (AP) — France is launching a new government service empowered to take money directly from the bank accounts of parents who fail to pay child support, aiming to help many families — the vast majority of whom are headed by single mothers — emerge from precarious financial situations....
Police sergeant wins Maryland powerlifting competition
MILLERSVILLE, Md. (AP) — In late summer, Lonnie Fariss approached one of her athletes, Takenya McGregor, with a challenge fit for the single mother and Anne Arundel County Police Department sergeant. The coronavirus pandemic stripped powerlifters of the competitive life they were used to. But Fariss, a...
Daughter of state senator to join father as SC lawmaker
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina state Sen. Kevin L. Johnson always figured his eldest child, Kimberly, would become a public servant. It started in high school, Johnson said, when his daughter was handed a partial athletic scholarship to play basketball at Benedict College, a historically Black...
With ‘Stillwater,’ Mallika Chopra brings mindfulness to kids
NEW YORK (AP) — When the producers of the new animated children’s series “Stillwater” asked Mallika Chopra to be the show’s “mindfulness consultant,” the meditation expert, author and speaker said she was immediately on board. “What an amazing title to...
NY law requires parents in prison be housed closest to kids
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new bill signed into law in New York will require incarcerated parents be housed in prisons closest to the homes of their children. More than 100,000 children around the state have at least one parent in prison, many serving time in facilities several hours away from their families. ...
US plans family deportations, including girl with broken arm
HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention center, including a 4-year-old girl with a broken arm requiring surgery, according to lawyers for the families. Medical records show that doctors at the Dilley,...
Rights groups condemn Hungarian ban on same-sex adoptions
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Human rights groups on Wednesday condemned a new Hungarian law that effectively bans adoption for same-sex couples and applies a strict Christian conservative viewpoint to the legal definition of a family. The amendment, passed by Hungary’s right-wing ruling coalition in...
High court declines to hear Indiana birth certificate case
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an Indiana case seeking to reverse a lower court's ruling that allows both members of same-sex couples in the state to be listed as parents on the birth certificates of their children. The high court turned aside without comment a...
Liz Weston: Got life insurance? You may not have enough
You probably need life insurance if your death would cause financial hardship to someone else. If the only coverage you have is through your job, though, you may not have enough. Fortunately, buying life insurance has gotten easier in some ways during the pandemic. Plus, coverage may be cheaper than you think....
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