Susan and Jerry McFalls finally had what they always wanted. After 25 years owning and operating an auto mechanic shop with his son, Jerry Jr., Jerry was now retired. He and his wife Susan, both now 63, split their time between their homes in West Jordan, Utah and Littlefield, Arizona. “They bought the [Arizona] property six or seven years ago out of bankruptcy,” Meridee McFalls, Jerry...
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears Thursday at a White House opioids summit, skeptics are likely to hit him with this question: Was his “statement of interest” in support of local governments suing Big Pharma a declaration of war — or saber-rattling?Defense attorneys who have crossed swords with the federal government before, and advocates who have been pushing the Trump...
The opioid epidemic is fast becoming a big city problem.There was a 54 percent increase in overdoses from July 2016 through September 2017 in the major metro areas of 16 states surveyed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a chunk of the country that includes Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. Nationwide, the scourge that President Do...
Here’s another reason to get vaccinated against measles – researchers have found the measles virus makes kids’ immune systems “forget” most of what they have learned, leaving children vulnerable to other diseases for as long as three years.The findings, published in the journal Science, help explain why deaths and illnesses from a range of diseases plummet in countries after they...
A Florida school district removed a middle school teacher from her classroom after it was revealed that she had secretly hosted a white nationalist podcast, raising concerns that she may have exposed her students to such ideology.Dayanna Volitich, 25, remains a social studies teacher at Crystal River Middle School in Crystal River. The Citrus County School District said Sunday th...
A native of Nigeria, which Senbanjo noted has more than 300 tribes, the artist identifies as Yoruba, one of the country's largest ethnic groups. But when Senbanjo first immigrated to New York in 2013, becoming black was part of his welcome."New York for me when I was growing up on TV was like,' Oh wow, I should just go to New York,'" he said. "And you get here and you have a rude shock...
