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Throughout the school year, students throughout the region have been able to grab school breakfast and lunch without needing to reach into their pockets for a dining card or punching in a code number into the school cafeteria register. Free school meals, whether in person or take-out during remote learning, have been a key part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s COVID-19 recovery program. The federal agency will now extend that program through the 2021-22 school year as part of what the...

A new study conducted by the university’s Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy published findings that analyzed the diets of 40,000 adults and 21,000 children between 2003 and 2018. In the final year of the study, more than half of meals that were served in U.S. restaurants were determined to have the "lowest nutritional quality." Sixty-five percent of restaurant-prepared meals for adults were labeled as being "poor quality" while 80% of restaurant-prepared...

Grosse Pointe Park man faces charges of embezzling from nonprofit Shutterstock image GROSSE POINTE PARK — A Grosse Pointe Park man is accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from a nonprofit that serves Michigan children and adults in need. As a result of an FBI investigation, on April 8, Grosse Pointe Park resident John R. Lynch, 56, was arrested on federal charges including embezzling, obtaining by fraud and unlawfully converting to his own use funds from Holy Cross Services, a Clinton, ...

Grosse Pointe Park man steals money from Metro Detroit charity for personal use, feds say John Lynch charged with wire fraud, mail fraud, embezzlement Published:  Updated:  Tags:  DETROIT – A Grosse Pointe Park man is accused of stealing money from a charity that benefits disadvantaged Detroit children and using it for his own personal expenses, Officials said Lynch became the CFO of the Holy Cross organization in March 2012, and later became its CEO in 2015. Holy Cross was established i...

Grosse Pointe Park Holy Cross CEO charged with using church money to fix cars, get new roof By FOX 2 Staff GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Grosse Pointe Park man is facing federal charges of fraud, embezzlement, and more charges that he stole money from Holy Cross Catholic Church to fix his cars, buy a new roof, pay down his mortgage, and pay his personal American Express account. John Lynch, 56, was arrested Tuesday on federal charges, according to Acting United States Attorney Saima S....

Michigan man accused of stealing from religious charity he led Updated Apr 08, 2021; GROSSE POINTE PARK, MI – A Michigan man suspected of stealing from a religious charity that he led was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint of fraud, embezzling and unlawfully converting funds to his own use, authorities said. John R. Lynch, 56, of Grosse Pointe Park allegedly stole from Holy Cross, a large charitable organization based in Clinton that receives federal funds, Acting U.S. Attorney S...

Apr 5, 2021 12:34 PM EDT When a deadly winter storm this February left more than four million people in Texas without power, nearly 15 million without clean water, and 111 people killed, Secunda Joseph sought refuge in her cousin’s Houston home. Joseph was unable to make phone calls, but was still receiving text messages from community members reaching out to the community-organized hotline she helps manage, for assistance. Emergency services were overwhelmed. ...

Julia Raifman, ScD; Jacob Bor, ScD; Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD The prevalence of nutrition-sensitive conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes has increased substantially in the US during the past 30 years. These conditions, combined with other diet-related ones such as cardiovascular diseases and certain cancers, are associated with the majority of morbidity, mortality, and health care spending nationally. Simultaneously, income inequality has increased, with accompanying self...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is expanding food assistance benefits for more than 800,000 children whose access to school meals has

The Kentucky Senate and House of Representatives convened only two days this week. But in terms of bills passed and the number of hours spent debating legislation, they were two