GENEVA (AP) — A cost-of-living crisis sparked in part by higher fuel and food prices is expected to hit women the hardest, the World Economic Forum reported Wednesday, pointing to a widening gender gap in the global labor force.
HOUSTON (AP) — Amid a summer heat wave that has pushed temperatures in some Texas prisons without air conditioning to 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius), many inmates fear dying or falling gravely ill from the hot weather and believe actions taken by officials to mitigate the dangerous conditions continue to fall short, according to a new report.
PHOENIX (AP) — Long lines are back at food banks around the U.S. as working Americans overwhelmed by inflation turn to handouts to help feed their families.
Denison may soon become the latest city to ask incoming development to pay for its impact on local infrastructure and utilities. The City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve a $198,000 professional services agreement with Huitt- Zollars for a study on instituting impact fees for new and future development within the city.
After months of speculation, it looks like Fannin County’s largest employer, the Bonham Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center might not be going anywhere anytime soon. Last spring an Asset and Infrastructure Review listed the Bonham facility as a property to be shut down with services to be the Metroplex.
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SAN ANTONIO — The woman wearing a black blouse, jeans and sunglasses resting on top of her head walked toward the dirt road between a waste management company and the train tracks on the city’s outskirts, the place where an employee of a nearby business had found the bodies of dozens of migrants inside a trailer four days earlier.
People who believe they are descendants of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre can now provide genetic material to help scientists when they begin trying to identify remains of possible victims. Danny Hellwig, laboratory director with Intermountain Forensics, said Wednesday that researchers are not ready to begin trying to match DNA for identification, but an outpouring of requests from local residents on how to provide genetic material led them to begin the process of accepting donations.
Southeastern Oklahoma State University will not increase tuition costs for the 2022-2023 academic year, and SE president Thomas Newsom says he hopes this decision sends a strong message to students and parents.
GRUNDY, Va. (AP) — Rains that swiftly flooded a remote corner of southwest Virginia washed out roads, tore homes from their foundations and left people scrambling to find loved ones in areas where phone service was knocked out completely.