A Girl Scout helped save the life of a 73-year-old soccer player by teaching her dad CPR Girl Scouts learn valuable life lessons every year, from how to build a business to saving a life by using CPR. That life lesson helped save a Roseville, California, man. Bob Simonoff, 73, said if it ... 05/4/2024 - 4:12 pm | View Link
Suspect in critical condition after CHP in standoff on I-80 in Solano County Parts of Interstate 80 are shut down in Solano County on Friday afternoon as California Highway Patrol deputies are involved in a standoff with a suspect. CHP chased the suspect's vehicle on the ... 05/4/2024 - 1:39 am | View Link
A succession of first responders testified at Karen Read trial. Here’s how it unfolded. Also on Friday, jurors visited the Canton home where John O’Keefe’s body was found during a blizzard in January 2022. 05/3/2024 - 8:53 am | View Link
New Taylor Swift song could be life-saving, perfect beat for CPR Being a Taylor Swift fan could actually be life-saving! The American Heart Association took to Instagram Thursday to announce that “The Tortured Poets Department,” the titular track on Swift’s ... 05/2/2024 - 8:35 am | View Link
MI high school coaches will need CPR, AED certification Sudden cardiac arrest claims the lives of about 250 Michigan children and young adults each year. Legislation signed into law over the weekend aims to reduce that number. The new state law will requir ... 05/1/2024 - 1:28 am | View Link
Young America's Foundation, the American version of Hitler's Youth, and the college Republicans at the University of Wisconsin in Madison had collaborated to throw a wild shindig at the Library Mall in Madison. The invitation that they were sharing was something to behold:
They promised there would be American flags, free t-shirts, popsicles, Toby Keith and Freedom!
Well, isn't that interesting?
By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune
April 29, 2024
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The Colorado legislature convened Saturday for a final weekend of work in its 2024 session, which is set to end Wednesday. Major pieces of legislation are still pending, with lawmakers expected to debate gun regulations, housing, land-use policy, transportation, property tax reform and other priorities in the final days.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
Updated at 1:30 p.m.: A proposed Constitutional amendment to remove defunct language banning same-sex marriage will go to voters this November after a referred measure passed the Colorado House on Saturday.
The proposed amendment would remove a ban approved by voters in 2006.
Protesters chanted anti-war messages and waved Palestinian flags during the University of Michigan’s commencement Saturday, as student demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war collided with the annual pomp-and-circumstance of graduation ceremonies.
No arrests were reported and the protest — comprised of about 50 people, many wearing traditional Arabic kaffiyeh along with their graduation caps — didn’t seriously interrupt the nearly two-hour event at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, which was attended by tens of thousands of people.
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One protest banner read: “No universities left in Gaza.”
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Kate Middleton’s life changed significantly when she married Prince William in 2011, having met while studying at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
Now Princess of Wales and next in line to be Queen, Kate married into a generationally wealthy family whose working members get official expenses covered by proceeds from their vast land holdings, and she and her husband have only gotten wealthier during their marriage.
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Russia has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, Russian state media reported Saturday, citing the interior ministry’s database.
As of Saturday afternoon, both Zelenskyy and his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, featured on the ministry’s list of people wanted on unspecified criminal charges. The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Gen.