FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Fresno community-based nonprofit organization has been awarded $9,000 from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, a grant that aims to implement or expand new literacy initiatives, officials announced. The Fresno nonprofit that was awarded the grand is the SER-Jobs for Progress, Inc., San Joaquin Valley in Fresno, which aims to provide […]
May 14—Effingham is looking to improve and better maintain its tree population after receiving a grant for the establishment of the city’s first forestry program. During a recent council meeting, City Engineer Jeremy Heuerman said the city has been awarded $50,000 to cover the cost of creating an inventory of the city’s trees and developing […]
Two former California high school students were awarded $1 million and tuition reimbursement after they said they were forced to withdraw from the school in 2020 for wearing acne masks, which were interpreted by officials and community members as “blackface.” The two former Saint Francis High School (SFHS) students, now 21 years of age, became […]
The well-known Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was posthumously awarded the Dresden International Peace Prize on Sunday. His widow Yulia Navalnaya accepted the award on his behalf, which is endowed with €10,000 ($10,774), at the eastern German city’s Schauspielhaus theatre. Former German president Joachim Gauck honoured the man who died in prison almost three months […]
The San Bernardino Justice Center is shown. Two San Bernardino women said they lived in their home for over five years without heat because of a dispute with their insurance company. (Google Maps) Two San Bernardino sisters who sued their insurance company for failing to pay to repair flood damage on their home are now […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A teenager who video-recorded his mother’s forceful arrest by Louisiana sheriff’s deputies in 2020 has been awarded $185,000 by a federal jury in a lawsuit filed over one deputy’s attempt to interfere with the recording. De’Shaun Johnson was 14 when deputies arrived at his family’s home in St. Tammany Parish to […]
May 7—It was a festive scene outside Super Natural & Fresh Produce on Tuesday morning. Leopoldo Sanchez was greeted with handshakes and hugs from friends and family as he made his way through the crowd assembled at the entrance to his grocery store on North 12th Street in Reading. It was, after all, his special […]
The first Hispanic woman to launch into space is now the second female astronaut to be awarded the United States’ highest honor. Ellen Ochoa, who later directed NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, was bestowed with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony at the White House on Friday (May 3). Ochoa is the […]
May 5—Kit Standridge has a special skill. Inside her Spanish classroom at the Academy for Technology and the Classics, everyone is accepted and appreciated, said Jason Morgan, the school’s principal. “She’s at the top of teachers who are just welcoming and caring and considerate of every student who walks through the door — making sure […]
May 3—POTSDAM — The state Department of Environmental Conservation has awarded Clarkson University researchers a three-year $69,904 grant to work on the “Milfoil Monitoring and Control Project.” The main goal of the project will be to monitor two invasive aquatic watermilfoil species in upstate New York. The research team will study Eurasian watermilfoil in Goose […]
Former US president Donald Trump has secured an additional $1.8 billion (€1.68 billion) worth of shares in Trump Media, according to a regulatory filing this week. Based on the company’s stock hitting certain price benchmarks, Mr Trump was awarded an additional 36 million shares in the company that owns his social media platform Truth Social. […]
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a Texas Tech professor a $2 million grant to research how to recover minerals from produced water in oil and gas production. According to a release from the university, Mahdi Malmali, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, is leading the project titled “Strategic Management and […]