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KU part of $3.7M grant to better serve families in SE Kansas
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KU part of $3.7M grant to better serve families in SE Kansas
Police shootings of children spark renewed calls for training on adolescents in crisis The long-standing question of how fatal police shootings of children could be avoided and lives spared has engulfed the nation in recent weeks. By Kimberly Kindy, Julie Tate, Jennifer Jenkins and Ted MellnikWashington Post Share Children draw on paper at a protest held outside Columbus, Ohio, City Hall on April 25, 2021. People were rallying against the fatal police shooting of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant. Photo for The Washington Post by Maddie McGarvey Stavian Rodriguez squeezed his 15-year-old body thr...
Restaurant review: Norte Azul offers accessible Tex-Mex fare in Stephentown Susie Davidson Powell FacebookTwitterEmail Tacos were the salvation of 2020. Well, tacos and pizza, but the proliferation of taquerias gave us tiny Mexican outposts built around takeout and offering comal-cooked tortillas, some even nixtamalizing their own corn masa dough. We were treated to pork al pastor dripped with pineapple, tacos de lengua respecting the deliciousness of tongue and nationally trending birrias for dipping in broth. So I’m not sending you to Norte Azul Cantina in Stephentown for tacos or transfo...
Oklahoman In moments between confusion over why her 15-year-old boy was armed with a gun inside a south Oklahoma City store and anger toward the police officers who shot him to death, Cameo Holland, otherwise stoic as she speaks, breaks down in tears when she remembers the color of her dead son’s eyes. “He had hazel eyes,” she said. “Of all my kids, he was the only one that looked like me. Bluish-green and in the very center they had some brown. And a few yellow spots.” The last time Holland saw Stavian Rodriguez, one of her four children, a funeral home presented him the bes...
An Oklahoma City police officer was told to turn off his body camera after 15-year-old Stavian Rodriguez was fatally shot. Five are charged in his death.