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Acadiana residents Rummage for a Reason, to raise money for local non-profits and last updated 2021-04-17 20:43:25-04 More than a dozen local non-profits are benefiting from the generosity of those in Acadiana. Rummage for a Reason, held Saturday in Lafayette, gave people a chance to shop for interesting items while helping organizations raise a few extra dollars. Some of the participating non-profits included Big Brother Big Sister of Acadiana, Foster the Love, Maddie's Footprints, Healing House, SpayNation/Wild Cat Foundation, and Camp Bon Coeur. But what did the organizations have to ru...

April 18, 2021 Mayor Bill de Blasio this week weighed in on the killing of Daunte Wright, a young Black man fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., cop who says she mistook her gun for a taser. Subscribe "Why are people allowed to be police officers if they don't know how to handle their weapon?" he asked Monday during an interview with Ebro Darden on radio station Hot 97. Community leaders in Brooklyn, N.Y., want to ask the mayor and police brass the same thing, as they question the recent assignment of Chief John Chell to head up the Brooklyn North Detective Bureau. It marked the latest h...

NYC should open more 24/7 vaccination sites during Ramadan, local lawmakers say Shant Shahrigian With the start of Ramadan approaching, Manhattan resident Ahsia Badi felt some reservations about getting her second COVID shot. Badi, 48, was concerned about what would happen if there were side effects from the dose while she was fasting during daytime hours — a key part of the annual Muslim ritual. After speaking with a doctor, Badi is going ahead with her second shot in the coming weeks but supports recent calls for the city to expand the number of 24/7 vaccine sites to accom...

Cuomo's Top Vaccine Distribution Official Called County Executives To Gauge Their Support For The Embattled Governor arrow Former secretary to the Governor Larry Schwartz in New York, on March 30th, 2020. John Lamparski/NurPhoto/Shutterstock The head of New York state's vaccination rollout—Larry Schwartz—made personal calls to county executives asking about their support for Governor Andrew Cuomo as the state's top Democrats continue to call for his resignation, according to reports from the Washington Post and the New York Times on Sunday. The phone calls alarmed ...

Barbot will be one of the frontline medical leaders interviewed for a BBC special called "54 Days: America and the Pandemic."