Indiana files appeal in federal pandemic unemployment case
CASEY SMITH, Associated Press/Report for America
July 20, 2021
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FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2020, file photo, a help wanted sign is displayed at a car wash in Indianapolis. Indiana’s Department of Workforce Development said Wednesday, July 7, 2021 that it still hasn’t decided how to continue payment of federal unemployment benefits more than a week after a judge ruled that the state must restart the extra $300 weekly payments to unemployed workers.Michael Conroy/AP
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) State officials filed an appeal this week in an ongoing attempt to withdraw Indiana from federal programs that expanded unemployment benefits during the pandemic.
Case dropped against dead woman in Indiana hit-and-run case
CASEY SMITH, Associated Press/Report for America
July 20, 2021
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FILE - This July 9, 2020 file photo provided by the Monroe County Correctional Center in Bloomington, Ind., shows Christi Bennett. The case against Bennett, an Indiana woman who was charged in a hit-and-run crash during a southern Indiana protest last summer was dropped after prosecutors confirmed she died in Colorado earlier this year. Christi Jane Bennett, was found dead in a Denver hotel room on Feb. 6, 2021, according to police. (Monroe County Correctional Center via AP File)AP
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Prosecutors dropped their case against an Indiana woman who was charged in a hit-and-run crash during a southern Indiana protest last summer after learning she died in Colorado earlier this year.
State agency: Guards used excessive force before inmate died
FARNOUSH AMIRI, Report for America/Associated Press
July 20, 2021
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In this image made from video provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, prison guards escort Michael McDaniel, 55, in white shirt on the ground, to the medical facility at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio. Investigative findings released Tuesday, July 20, 2021, found at least six Ohio prison guards used excessive and unjustified force against McDaniel in February, resulting in his death. Security footage released by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction showed McDaniel collapsing or being forcibly taken down to the floor at least 16 times before he was pronounced dead. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP)AP
Top Mississippi hospital to require masks for unvaccinated
Top Mississippi hospital to require masks for unvaccinated
Associated Press/Report for America
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi’s only level-one trauma hospital and academic medical center will require all employees and student who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 to wear an N95 mask while inside, a decision that a top official acknowledged would not be popular with everyone in the country’s least vaccinated state and may result in the loss of employees.
“This is not a popular decision with some people. There are some people in the medical profession with who in fact, this is not a popular decision, and I acknowledge that,” University of Mississippi Medical Center Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Dr. LouAnn Woodward said Friday during a news conference.
Prosecutors: Man killed student who mistook car for Uber
MICHELLE LIU, Associated Press/Report for America
July 20, 2021
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1of14Defendant Nathaniel Rowland speaks with his attorney, Alicia Goode, right, during his trial in Richland County Court, Tuesday, July 20, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. Rowland is on trial for the kidnapping and murder of 21-year-old Samantha Josephson. (Tracy Glantz/The State via AP)Tracy Glantz/APShow MoreShow Less
2of14Judge Clifton Newman listens during the trial of Nathaniel Rowland in Richland County Court, Tuesday, July 20, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. Rowland is on trial for the kidnapping and murder of 21-year-old Samantha Josephson. (Tracy Glantz/The State via AP)Tracy Glantz/APShow MoreShow Less