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Bexar County closes Freeman Coliseum shelter as last of migrant boys leave facility 6-week humanitarian operation comes to close at Bexar County-owned facility Published:  Tags:  SAN ANTONIO – The remaining young male migrants who temporarily called Freeman Coliseum home left the facility Monday. Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, Precinct 1 County Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores, federal officials, volunteers, vendors and others said goodbye to the boys, ages 13-17. Wolff and Clay-Flores wished the boys good luck on their journey and in their future endeavors. One of the boys gifted Wolff...

Health your username 2 hours ago On Friday, 76 hospitals collectively filed suit against Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Humans Services. The suit, filed in the District of Columbia District Court, concerns allegations of systemic underpayment of Medicare and Medicaid benefits due to recalculations of how these payments are allotted between Medicare and Medicaid. All plaintiff hospitals are located in California and are participants in the California Medicaid system. The Medicare program contracts with local hospitals to provide treatment for Medicare eligible patients. The inpatient...

2 deaths in 100 days at Oregon youth correctional centers May 14 2021 Oregon Youth Authority faces a combined $16 million in potential civil penalties after families of Brett J.J. Bruns and Juan Lopez-Robles file suit. Two teens died in the span of 100 days while under supervision by the Oregon Youth Authority juvenile detention system, according to a new investigation by the Portland Tribune. The death of Brett J.J. Bruns by self-harm in December 2019 — as well as the unintentional overdose that took the life of Juan Lopez-Robles in March 2020 — casts a spotlight on the cont...

Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) - Fewer people are lining up to get a needle in their arm as Idahoans feel uncertain about getting a new vaccine. More than 540,000 people in Idaho are fully vaccinated, making up about 38.5% of the state’s 16 and older population but only 29% of the entire state population. But the Gem State still isn't keeping up with the rest of the country. Idaho ranks 44th in the nation for COVID-19 vaccination rates, according to the Becker Hospital Review, which is tracking vaccination rates by total state population. And now our pace is slowi...

- ADVERTISEMENT - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated the books after receiving a call from Mayor Robert Garcia, said Nate Fernley, president of the church’s Long Beach California East Stake. “That’s the heart of Christianity. If there are children who need help, we’re hopefully there to help them,” said Fernley. A forklift driver unloads two pallets for a total of 8,000 Spanish-language books and toys donated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Long Beach. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova. Donations had already been coming in for the more than 700 un...