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NEW YORK - A new report shows far fewer New Yorkers have gone hungry since the federal government nearly doubled its spending in the pandemic on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The number of New York residents who reported not having enough to eat was more than 6 million in April, but by September it had fallen to around 2.7 million - the month enhanced SNAP benefits were extended through the American Rescue Plan. Joel Berg, chief executive of Hunger Free America, said...

LOS ANGELES -- Anti-hunger advocates filed suit Monday to force Los Angeles County to speed up processing of applications for emergency food assistance. Those applications by law must be processed within three days, but the countys own data showed between October 2020 and September 2021, more than a third of applications took longer, affecting 54,000 households. Frank Tamborello, executive director of Hunger Action Los Angeles, said the CalFresh program is akin to emergency response. ...

The Unified Fire Authority shared Sunday that they are mourning the loss of an active-duty fire Captain, who died of COVID-19 complications.

A team of first responders from Utah is in Louisiana as Hurricane Ida approaches the coast.

KSL TV SALT LAKE CITY — Two members of Utah Task Force 1 have safely returned home to Utah this weekend. At the request of federal authorities, the two individuals were sent to south Florida on July 7 to help in the recovery efforts of the Surfside Champlain Tower collapse. The two members had spent more than a week on site in assisting local first responders. In a social media post Friday night, Utah Task Force 1 said its "All members of UT-TF1 have been demobilized from the Surfside Champl...