New Mexico gives most US funding to child care of any state
CEDAR ATTANASIO, Associated Press/Report for America
July 1, 2021
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1of11Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announces an increase in child care subsidies on Thursday, July 1, 2021, in Santa Fe, N.M. Subsidy eligibility expanded to families with income at 350% of the federal poverty line, the most generous in the nation. Lujan Grisham is calling for New Mexico to become the first U.S. state to offer universal child care.Cedar Attanasio/APShow MoreShow Less
2of11Children wait for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to make an announcement about child care subsidies on Thursday, July 1, 2021, in Santa Fe, N.M. New Mexico is expanding child care subsidy eligibility to the middle class by tapping into pandemic relief funds.Cedar Attanasio/APShow MoreShow Less
Northwest US faces hottest day of intense heat wave
SEATTLE (AP) The hottest day of an unprecedented and dangerous heat wave scorched the Pacific Northwest on Monday, with temperatures obliterating records that had been set just the day before.
Seattle hit 107 degrees Fahrenheit (42 Celsius) by mid-afternoon well above Sunday’s all-time high of 104 F (40 C) on the way to an expected high of 110 F (43 C). Portland, Oregon, reached 115 F (46 C) after hitting new records of 108 F (42 C) on Saturday and 112 F (44 C) on Sunday.
The temperatures were unheard of in a region better known for rain, and where June has historically been referred to as “Juneuary” for its cool drizzle. Seattle s average high temperature in June is around 70 F (21.1 C), and fewer than half of the city s residents have air conditioning, according to U.S. Census data.
Leah Willingham July 01, 2021 - 4:32 PM
For decades, the two little grave markers sat side by side in a Mississippi Coast cemetery, identified only as Baby Jane and Baby Jane II.
The infants, both âJane Does,â were found on different occasions, in 1982 and 1988, in Jackson County rivers and buried by community members, after investigators found no leads in either case.
Then late last year, investigators were able to identify Baby Jane through DNA testing, almost 40 years after her death. This week, investigators exhumed Baby Jane II from her resting place in Jackson County Memorial Park in Pascagoula, with hopes of finding her true name.
She wasn t a nobody : Infant exhumed 30 years after death
LEAH WILLINGHAM, Associated Press/Report for America
July 1, 2021
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This photo provided by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department shows the grave marker of Baby Jane II at Jackson County Memorial Park in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The weeks-old infant, found in the Pascagoula River in 1988, was never identified. She was buried by community members next to the grave site of another unidentified infant found in a Jackson County river in the 1980s called Baby Jane. (Matt Hoggatt/Jackson County Sheriff’s Department via AP)Matt Hoggatt/AP
For decades, the two little grave markers sat side by side in a Mississippi Coast cemetery, identified only as Baby Jane and Baby Jane II.
Texas soldier who shot protester indicted on murder charge
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – An Army soldier who shot and killed an armed protester after driving into a crowd demonstrating against police violence in the Texas capital last summer has been indicted on murder charge, authorities said Thursday.
Sgt. Daniel Perry, who was stationed at Fort Hood, was booked and released on $300,000 bail, said Kristen Dark, a spokeswoman for the Travis County Sheriff’s Office. She said Perry was booked on one count of murder and one count of deadly conduct in the death of Garrett Foster, 28.
Prosecutors did not immediately comment on the case but scheduled a news conference for later Thursday. The Travis County district attorney had brought the case to a grand jury, which issued the indictment.