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What if your wish was to meet your favorite baseball players? That wish came true for one young fan.

A wave of legislation targeting LGBTQ+ people has swept conservative-led statehouses since 2021, when Arkansas passed a law banning hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender youths under 18. So far this year, according to the advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, more than 500 bills have been introduced in states including Arizona, Oklahoma and South Carolina. These states might not top the list of vacation destinations for LGBTQ+ travelers seeking to feel welcome, accepted and safe.

A former sales representative for the now-notorious Insys Therapeutics Inc. on Wednesday was spared any prison time over his role in a massive bribery scheme that steered kickbacks to doctors for prescribing a version of the opioid fentanyl.

3 El Paso men accused of threatening victim with gun after causing car crash El PASO, Texas -- Three men are behind bars after allegedly attempting to kidnap someone for an El Paso bail bonds company. Aldo Navar Fernandez, 28; Carlos Alfredo Ortiz, 38; and Fernando Serrano, 47 were all being held in the downtown jail this weekend on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and attempted kidnapping. El Paso County Sheriffs deputies said the trio purposely crashed their vehicle into ano...

CHICAGO —  Adam Toledo’s mother stood in front of a makeshift memorial in an alley where her 13-year-old son was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer. Elizabeth Toledo, 44, wore dark glasses and didn’t speak to the half-dozen onlookers. But Toledo, who lives a few blocks away in the neighborhood of La Villita, Little Village, has said through her attorney that she feels judged by the community since her son’s death last month. So she surveyed the candles, bouquets and signs calli...

Photo by Gary Kazanjian and is republished here by permission. In the first days of August, Fresno farmworker Brenda Yamileth, lined up for a COVID-19 test alongside her mother and brother. Feverish and headachy, she held her 10-month-old daughter. Soon, all four tested positive. She quarantined with her baby in one bedroom of her Mendota house while her husband and 2½-year-old son slept in the other. Daughter Michelle cried nonstop, and Yamileth worried for the baby’s health. At the same t...

March 18, 2021 The need seemed self-evident across the state, too. About four in 10 Californians who live with an agricultural or food processing worker also live in an overcrowded home — defined as having more people than rooms — according to a CalMatters analysis of census data. But the farmworking community has largely declined to use the state-sponsored housing. According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, 81 rooms have been booked as of Dec. 16 across 12 counties. Th...