Heavy rain and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano’s slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have triggered flash floods that killed at least 15 people and injured several others. Monsoon rains and a major mudslide from a cold lava flow on Mount Marapi caused a river to breach its banks and tear […]
The Kentucky Board of Education had received 15 applications for the new commissioner of education, spokesperson Jennifer Ginn told the Herald-Leader Monday. That is far less than when the position was last open in 2020 when 46 applications were reviewed. The Education Commissioner post is open following the resignation of Jason Glass, who said in […]
“People realized we may not see anything like this again,” says former campaign and White House staffer Heather Foster of the historic 2009 swearing-in of President Barack Obama. Fifteen years ago today, the United States of America achieved something that it had not done in its more than 230-year history: a Black president was sworn […]
Fifteen municipalities in Lake County have critical shortages of available affordable housing, according to the latest data from the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA). Local governments are mandated to develop an affordable housing plan if the supply of affordable units dips below 10% of the entire housing stock, according to 2003 state law that also […]