As activists and city officials gathered to protest Wednesday night, the LGBTQ+ community in West Hollywood expressed their outrage over the deportation of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist who was seeking refuge. The 31-year-old Andry Hernandez Romero had no criminal record, according to supporters, and was fleeing persecution for a number of reasons, including his…
The Californian city of Petaluma experimented with working with nearby eateries to establish a citywide return-and-reuse beverage cup program. The plan at the time was a three-month study, and the results are in. A home run was hit. The initiative, which included local mom-and-pop shops and big chains like Starbucks and Taco Bell, made sure…
Thanks to dogs like Olivia, the world is a dog-help-puppy place. Saving lives is nothing new to the dog. She spends her days giving people and pets vital care and comfort as a registered therapy dog at DoveLewis Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Earlier this year, Olivia went above and above the…
Test anxiousness caused Sarah Ashley Winans to awaken in the middle of the night. She wasn’t scheduled to take the state exam, though. It would be administered by her, a middle school teacher. On April 23, Winans, an Eastman, Georgia, teacher, posted a video of herself realizing she had forgotten to plug in her computer…
Kosta, the youngest son of Nadja Jovanovic, has always had a fascination with automobiles. His father, Miko, who has always loved luxury cars and vintage vehicles, and his two elder brothers, Relja, 7, and Lav, 5, who were also early truck, plane, and train enthusiasts, are largely responsible for his obsession. As Kosta’s fourth birthday…
After a local senior couple was defrauded of some new landscaping work they paid for, a contractor in the Pittsburgh region took up the cause. The couple was surprised when someone else offered to do it for free after they lost out on $6,750 for a new retaining wall on the garden side of their…
Heartbreak and $100 in tips were the beginning of it all when Kristina Ulmer’s sister attempted to return home in 2014 with the money she had collected from her breakfast tables but was killed in a vehicle accident. Like her sister always did, Kristina made the decision to utilize the $100 from her sister’s tips…
Taco Bell has awarded $40,000 in scholarship assistance to a young woman who worked there while in high school. Crimsyn Price received $10,000 for each of her first four years of university study after applying for a Taco Bell worker scholarship. She was able to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor by attending East…
In 2025, the fathers of two of the three young girls who were slain at a dancing lesson with a Taylor Swift theme ran the London Marathon in their memory. In an emotional tribute to their departed daughters and a fundraiser for charity, Sergio Aguiar and David Stancombe ran the 26.2-mile race on Sunday, April…
When it comes to twins, one school in New York is doing well! There are 15 sets of twins among the 447 seniors who are graduating from Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School on Long Island. “Most, if not all, have been in the district since kindergarten,” the school’s assistant principal, Timothy Lamb, stated…
