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by: The North Platte Bulletin - May. 8, 2021 Obituaries James E. “Jim” Schneider passed away peacefully on May 6, 2021 in Omaha after 90 well-lived years, including almost six decades in North Platte, where he worked honorably as an attorney and joyfully as a husband, father, and member of the community. Jim was born July 15, 1930 in Falls City to Alice (Murphy) and William Philip Schneider, and into a home with older brother, William “Bill” Schneider. His twin, John “Jack” Schneide...

Lake City teacher accused of kicking 8th grade student Denise Nash faces charge of child abuse Updated:  Tags:  LAKE CITY, Fla. – A Lake City Middle School teacher has been fired and charged with child abuse without causing great bodily harm, according to a report from the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office. The eight-page document states that Denise Nash is accused of kicking an eighth grade student in their back on Jan. 19 in front of the school’s cafeteria. According to the document, o...

Title Text:  Caption:  Description:  Image Credit:  Submitted City University of New York Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez has followed through on increasing faculty diversity. Nine new college presidents – including two Asian Americans, three African Americans and three women – were appointed in the past year. Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, CUNY established the Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund with $1 million each from the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation and the James an...

 E-Mail BOSTON - Many patients with cancer receive immune checkpoint inhibitors that strengthen their immune response against tumor cells. While the medications can be life-saving, they can also cause potentially life-threatening side effects in internal organs. This double-edged sword makes it challenging for clinicians to decide who should be considered candidates for treatment. A new analysis led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) indicates which patients are at elevated...

 E-Mail BOSTON - Immune checkpoint inhibitors, which boost the immune systems response against tumor cells, have transformed treatment for many advanced cancers, but short-term clinical trials and small observational studies have linked the medications with various side effects, most commonly involving the skin. A more comprehensive, population-level analysis now provides a thorough look at the extent of these side effects and provides insights on which patients may be more likely to experienc...

Ice cream flavor for Biden’s four years: Rocky road | Letters Updated Mar 17, 2021; He mentioned a woman who told him to tell the truth, but must have known that in his 47-plus years in government he has had great difficulty in doing just that. He failed to give former President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed credit for helping pharmaceutical companies develop vaccines in record time. Biden and this country would not be as far along with the vaccines were it not for Trump’s tireless...

Just before daybreak on March 11, 1921, an IRA flying column of the South Leitrim Brigade, led by Commandant Sean Connolly, arrived at the home of local national school teacher Charlie Flynn in the townland of Selton.

BROCKTON — The Strand Theatre, situated in Brocktons bustling downtown business district, was showing the film “Hoosier School Boy,” starring Mickey Rooney, followed by “Secret Evidence,” on Sunday, March 9, 1941.  It was a busy and normal evening for the theater at Main and School streets, which sat 1,685 people. Hours after the last showing, early into Monday morning, the night custodian, Christopher Moore, discovered a fire in the basement below the candy counter and instruct...

A LOCAL historian has published a book thirty years in the making about Inverclyde during World War 2. Vincent Gillens labour of love documents the untold story of brave actions and the voices of the people who lived through the war. The Greenock Telegraph has also played its part in the new title, which includes interviews with those who survived and features the legacies of others who sadly didnt come home. Author Vincent used contemporary reports from the Telegraph and Port Glasgow...

"That diabolical system": evictions in Famine Ireland Up to half a million people lost their homes during the Great Famine. Who carried out and documented those evictions, and what happened to the evicted? • 25 Feb 2021 Gaunt and miserable [...] being hunted there, as wolves, by the blood hounds of the unchristian, that diabolical system which had turned many...into desert wastes and howling wilderness. The eviction of tenants during the 1840s is one of the enduring themes of the Great Famine...