Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Susan Bro, front, mother of Heather Heyer, talks to the media in front of Charlottesville Circuit Court after a jury recommended life plus 419 years for James Alex Fields Jr. for the death of Heyer as well as several other charges related to the Unite the Right rally in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va.,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Rosa Ramirez sobs as she shows journalists toys that belonged to her nearly 2-year-old granddaughter Valeria in her home in San Martin, El Salvador, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. The drowned bodies of Ramirez’s son, 25-year-old Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his daughter were located Monday morning on the banks of the Rio Grande,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Flames and smoke emerge from the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia, Friday, June 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) By Marc Levy and Cathy Bussewitz associated press The largest oil refinery on the East Coast said Wednesday that it will close after a devastating fire last week that set off explosions and damaged…

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St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children to remain open Philadelphia Academic Health System, LLC, (PAHS), the parent company of Hahnemann University Hospital and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, has announced that Hahnemann will be closing on or about September 6 due to continuing, unsustainable financial losses.   “Our primary concern is the care of our patients,”…

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ASSOCIATED PRESS  CORONA, Calif. — An off-duty police officer opened fire inside a Costco Wholesale warehouse store, killing a man who had attacked him and wounding two others, the Corona Police Department said. Kenneth French, 32, of Riverside assaulted the Los Angeles Police Department officer Friday night while he was holding his young child, the…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Jay Z (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File) The couple is demanding $10 million from the Arizona city. By Megan Sims NEWSONE.COM Viral video of a rogue police officer pointing a gun at a Black family in the presence of an infant and a young child in Phoenix has angered countless people around the…

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By Michael Rubinkam Associated Press Police departments in at least five states are investigating, and in some cases condemning, their officers’ social media feeds after the  publication of a database that appears to catalog thousands of bigoted or violent posts by active-duty and former cops. The posts were uncovered by a team of researchers who…

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After consulting with the City’s Law Department, we have asked an outside law firm to assist with investigating each of these cases individually before we make final decisions about disciplinary action. The Law Department is instructing the law firm to conduct its review expeditiously and to review the most egregious posts first. First, we must…

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By Russell Contreras associated press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The 2020 Census will remain independent and will avoid political pressures amid uncertainty over how the bureau will question immigrants, U.S. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham said recently. Dillingham told reporters in Albuquerque that U.S. Census workers would make sure states with high percentages of Latinos and…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Leah Chase speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at her family’s restaurant, Dooky Chase’s Restaurant, in New Orleans, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. New Orleans restaurateur Leah Chase broke the city’s segregation laws by serving white and black customers, including civil rights leaders like Thurgood Marshall. She strove to provide an upscale,…

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