Two-Year-Old Shot & Killed in Lenoir [UPDATE 05:50 p.m.]
Ashley Ladawn Johnson & child, both reportedly shot by boyfriend Friday
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April 26, 2021
At about 11:40 Friday night (April 23), Caldwell County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a call regarding a shooting at a residential address on Pope Lane in Lenoir. Deputies arrived to find three people suffering from gunshot wounds.
According to a statement from the Sheriff’s Office, 38-year-old Michael Dale Summerow initially shot his girlfriend, Ashley Ladawn Johnson, after first assaulting her. Summerow then allegedly shot their two-year-old child before turning the gun on himself. All three individuals were treated by Caldwell County E.M.S.
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Lights lined the reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. on the evening before President Joe Biden s inauguration, Jan 19, 2021, in a memorial to lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic.
The news during 2020 was filled with tragic scenes of families visiting their senior loved ones through windows, health care professionals breaking down over the lonely deaths of patients in intensive care wards, and funerals carried out without families receiving the caresses and comfort of loved ones.
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Education workers organize the South
By calvin deutschbein posted on April 5, 2021
Elon, N.C.
Two years after voting by a 2-to-1 margin to unionize, on March 4 the embattled Elon Faculty Union finally forced the greedy administrators of Elon University to the bargaining table. EFU is Local 32 of the Service Employees Union, Workers United Southern Region.
Students for an Equitable Elon stage a banner drop in March 2020, one of many direct actions in support of the Elon Faculty Union.
A victory for all of us
The faculty union represents hundreds of adjunct and contingent faculty, a powerful presence of organized educators on this rural campus near Greensboro, N.C. The university sits in one of the most reactionary locales in the U.S., home to unusually violent voter suppression and family-separation actions by local law enforcement. U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, one of the leading architects of the Trump campaign to disrupt the 2020 presidential election, is a trustee o