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KNBN NewsCenter1 January 14, 2021 RAPID CITY, S.D. — The challenges of the past year have only encouraged Rapid City’s mayor to keep moving things forward. Mayor Steve Allender met with NewsCenter1 for a look ahead into 2021. Most of the plans for 2021 have rolled over from 2020. A major highlight is 2021 being the first full year of the new Human Relations Committee. This past August, the Council began the work of restructuring the Human Relations Committee, and in December, hired Malcolm ...

Missouri History Museum hosts series of virtual programs to honor Martin Luther King Jr. The museum will also be commemorating the 60th anniversary of King’s visit to the United Hebrew Temple. Author: Dana Dean, Lexi Brown Published: 1:42 PM CST January 15, 2021 Updated: 1:42 PM CST January 15, 2021 ST. LOUIS — In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Missouri History Museum is hosting a series of free virtual programming this Sunday and Mo...

Police investigating racist graffiti on Sylmar buildings Racist graffiti on buildings in Sylmar Police are looking for witnesses who may have seen or have video of racist graffiti written on buildings in the Sylmar area. LOS ANGELES - The walls are cleanly painted now but hours earlier, at least six locations in Sylmar were spraypainted with a vile two-word racist message aimed at African Americans we would not repeat. "Its hateful, .. we dont condone this.. were going to devote a lot of reso...

George Ray Schoch Jr. Dec. 18, 1928 — Dec. 26, 2020 Local civic leader, businessman and retired Air Force Officer, George Ray Schoch, Jr. (Ray) died unexpectedly Dec. 26, 2020, in Fairfield, California. Ray was born on Dec. 18, 1928, in Oil City, Pennsylvania. He joined the Air Force, becoming a B-47 Navigator/Bombardier, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel after a 28-year career. He was stationed at numerous stateside bases including duty as a Navigation Instructor at Mather AFB, California. He...

ALLENTOWN – An openly gay man’s lawsuit detailing claims of discrimination and harassment he suffered while in the employ of Guess, Inc. will now be governed by arbitration, rather than a civil court proceeding. Bryan Benedict of Philadelphia filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Sept. 17 versus Guess, Inc., Guess? Retail, Inc. and Guess Factory of Los Angeles, Calif. (Benedict originally filed his case anonymously, but a federal judge later ruled...

Paula Reed Ward WPXI-TV   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Two part-time police officers in Ambridge filed a federal lawsuit against the borough and its former police chief on Wednesday alleging that he repeatedly sexually harassed them and that officials there did nothing to stop it. Alexis Korol, who began working as a part-time police officer in November 2016, and Amanda Brown, who was hired as a part-time...

RCyAF, Air Ceylon, Air Lanka, SIA and SriLankan Airlines It was 31st December 1979.  Air Lanka was established on the 1st of September that year. It was my second ever trip to Europe. We were scheduled to fly Dubai to Orly airport, Paris, France via Zurich, Switzerland. Our Captain was an ex-Colonel from the Portuguese Air Force and had also flown Boeing 707 aircraft, for the TAP Air Portugal. We were flying a four engine, Boeing 707 312B registration 4R-ALB which was one of the two that had...

Top 10 stories of 2020: Calamity and chaos It was a year that dragged us away from our comfortable assumptions and into a dystopian nightmare we could scarcely credit in the 21st century. Twenty-Twenty was the year of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, coronavirus … the consensus pick among Enterprise staff for the most important story of the year. 9 minute read The Varsity Theatre sits idle in May as the COVID shutdown bit into Downtown Davis’ social life. Owen Yancher/Enterprise file photo Support Lo...

Contributed by Feed the Children Nature Made partnered with Feed the Children and Alabama Council on Human Relations to bring No Hunger Holidays to 400 Auburn families during the season of giving. The drive-thru event was held Dec. 18 at three sites including Frankie B. King Headstart Center, Edelman Center and the Darden Center. During the event, each family received a 25-pound box of food; a 15-pound box of essentials such as shampoo, conditioner, lotion and personal-care items. Families also...

1. Tenant-landlord Mediation With the pandemic-sparked economic downturn, untold numbers of renters in the U.S. became newly vulnerable to financial and housing insecurity. Advocates worry that a wave of evictions will follow the lifting of emergency moratoriums currently in place. But pre-court mediation programs in Philadelphia offer an approach to preventing displacement and heading off protracted legal battles between landlords and tenants. As part of the Philadelphia Eviction Prevention Pr...