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Mason Junchaya was returning to his home in Loma Colorado from a friend's house when a small pack of coyotes invaded his front yard.

Betrayal Led To A Decade Of Warfare With The Apache By Alexandra Simon/Feb. 6, 2021 1:53 pm EDT The life and death of Apache Chief Cochise would be one of the defining moments of the tribal group's history. The Apache lived and spanned throughout what's modern-day Arizona, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Northern Mexico. During westward expansion, white settlers and Native Americans across the U.S. were routinely at war with each other. This meant the Apache found themselves being pushed and challenged by not only by American soldiers, but Mexicans, too. Cochise himself headed the Chiricah...

"It's been our way to bring people together," Hernandez says. When COVID-19 began to spread across the U.S., Hernandez read the news about the dire lack of personal protective equipment in hospitals and health centers. He leveraged his Desert United network, and set up donation boxes for gloves, masks and other gear at four Home Depots around Palm Desert. Every day for over three months, he picked up a carload of PPE donations and delivered them to area hospitals, medical clinics and assisted living centers. "Since I had all these resources, I wanted to really use that tool to help the commun...

How this California small-business owner came up with creative ways to help community during pandemic Andrea Kramar, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT Mario Hernandez appears as your average small business owner. He runs a small, family-run tile-care business in the Coachella Valley of Southern California – and has been doing so for over 30 years. But when he's not driving from one home to the next restoring counters and floors, he's been coming up with solutions to some of his community's most pressing issues, including this year's pandemic. "There's so much going on in this ...