What’s Your KCQ is a collaboration between The Star and the Kansas City Public Library series that answers your questions the history, people, places and culture that make Kansas City unique. Have a suggestion for a future story? Share it with us here, or email our journalists at KCQ@kcstar.com. On a recent visit to Penn […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has proclaimed May 19 ‘Marriage Equality Day,’ honoring a decade since the court case that legalized marriage equality in Oregon. That decision in that case, Geiger v. Kitzhaber, was issued on that same day in 2014 when a U.S. District Court Judge struck down Oregon’s limitations on marriage […]
May 15—The U.S. Mint plans to release a new dollar coin at noon Thursday honoring Lewiston High School graduate Dr. Bernard Lown, the inventor of the defibrillator and a Nobel Peace Prize honoree for his work with Physicians for Social Responsibility. The coin, which bears Lown’s image along with a defibrillator, is part of the […]
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will host a vigil Tuesday for police who have died in the line of duty, but a simple plaque honoring officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is apparently too much. Two years ago, Congress passed a law requiring lawmakers to compile a list of names […]
WASHINGTON — As Congress plans to honor law enforcement for National Police Week in Washington, those who defended the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack are still awaiting a permanent memorial in the building more than a year after the deadline Congress set to place one. Congress commissioned a plaque to honor officers […]
PARIS (AP) — A Paris memorial honoring people who distinguished themselves by helping to rescue Jews in France during the country’s Nazi occupation in World War II was defaced Tuesday with painted blood-red hands, vandalism decried as “unspeakable” by the Paris mayor. The attack on the Wall of the Righteous comes in the context of […]
Happy National Astronaut Day 2024! As the inspiring President and CEO of Uniphi Good, music industry fixture Annie Balliro has presided over her successful artist management and marketing firm since 2009 before branching out into Uniphi Space Agency, which has expanded into the nation’s biggest private talent management firm for astronauts. Emboldened with the company’s […]
May 5—At about 3:45 a.m. Aug. 1, 2021, Geraldine Toya was sleeping at her Jemez Pueblo home when she got the phone call any parent dreads. Toya said an Albuquerque police officer told her that her daughter, Shawna Toya, 40, was dead. Geraldine said Shawna was found unresponsive in a vehicle at an Albuquerque park […]
ASHEVILLE – Nearly three years after a court-ordered halt mid-removal of a controversial Confederate governor’s monument in downtown Asheville, the work can resume, the city says. City Council voted as part of its April 23 consent agenda to re-up its contract with the firm that began removal in 2021. For an additional $109,402, on top […]
On Saturday, hundreds of people ran in honor of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper killed by a drunk driver. The 15th Annual Takeoff Race remembers Trooper Kenton Iwaniec. The Westmoreland County native was 24 when he was killed by a drunk driver while on the way home from the Avondale Barracks in Chester County. Runners […]
Gerald Ford’s White House photographer resigned from the board of the 38th president’s eponymous foundation and alleged it refused to honor Liz Cheney, the anti-Trump former Republican congresswoman, for fear of reprisal should Donald Trump return to power next year. Related: Liz Cheney read my book: a historian, Lincoln and the lessons of January 6 […]
Jayda Lum Lung will dance a traditional hula in honor of Lahaina wildfire victims at Hawaii’s biggest hula competition of the year. Her hand movements will flow gracefully to symbolize the winds, rains and mountains, she said, and the dance itself will tell a story of the sacred land. Lung, whose family was at home […]