Keith Gill in his introductory post on YouTube in July 2020.Roaring Kitty/YouTube The social media return of Keith Gill, aka “Roaring Kitty,” has sparked a flood of crypto meme tokens. Microcap meme tokens with names like “GME” and “Roar” have soared more than 1,000%. Most of the tokens were created in the past 24 hours […]
Looking for a charming getaway near wineries and waterfalls in New York’s Finger Lakes region? World Atlas, a website publishing content about resources and entertainment on geography, has revealed seven of the cutest small towns to visit in New York, all within the Finger Lakes region. Small towns and villages with charm dot the Empire State’s […]
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (WTAJ) — Punxsutawney Phil, and his wife, Phyllis, celebrated her first Mother’s Day in a very special way. Dozens gathered at the Punxsutawney Groundhog Zoo Sunday morning to hear the long-awaited announcement of the names of Phil and Phyllis’ two pups born in March. “Today, Mother’s Day, we decided it would be a […]
(NewsNation) — A school board in rural Virginia voted to reinstate the names of Confederate generals for two schools four years after the names had been removed, making it the first district in the nation to reverse course after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. On Friday, the Shenandoah County school board voted 5-1 to […]
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Mother’s Day was celebrated across the U.S. on Sunday by families of all kinds, including furry families. That’s right, a very popular Pennsylvania power couple had some celebratory news to announce in honor of the Mother’s Day holiday. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle announced on Facebook that two names had finally been […]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has appointed two women to fill judge vacancies in the Second Judicial District, which covers Ramsey County. On Friday, the governor announced that Veena Iyer and Jennifer Verdeja would fill those roles. The two will fill the vacancies created when JaPaul Harris moved up to the Minnesota Court of Appeals and […]
Our Uniquely Fort Worth stories celebrate what we love most about Cowtown, its history & culture. Story suggestion? Editors@star-telegram.com. The muddy Trinity River by any other name would still be muddled in history. Efforts to revive the river’s Native American name led some advocates of Indigenous rights to announce in 2018 that the river meandering […]
Thomas Jefferson University is apologizing after the names of some graduates from the nursing program were unrecognizably pronounced at their commencement, as seen in videos from the ceremony that have since gone viral. The mispronunciations at the Jefferson College of Nursing commencement ceremony, which occurred May 9, according to the university’s website, were attributed to […]
Four years after removing the names of Confederate leaders from two schools, a Virginia school board has decided to reverse that decision. In a 5-1 vote Friday, the Shenandoah County School Board voted to restore Mountain View High School’s name to Stonewall Jackson High School, and Honey Run Elementary School to Ashby-Lee Elementary School. In […]
An all-white school board in Virginia has voted to restore the names of Robert E Lee and other Confederate military leaders to two public schools in a backlash to the racial reckoning that followed the police murder of George Floyd. The decision to restore the names of Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Turner Ashby was taken […]
By Evelyn Hockstein and Julia Harte WOODSTOCK, Virginia (Reuters) – The education board for Shenandoah County, Virginia, voted early on Friday to restore Confederate generals’ names to two public schools in the predominantly white, rural and solidly Republican district, becoming the first in the U.S. to take such an action. By a 6-1 vote, the […]
SHENANDOAH COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) — The Shenandoah County School Board voted 5-1 early Friday morning to restore Confederate names to two schools there after they had previously been renamed four years earlier. Mountain View High School will, as a result, once again be known as Stonewall Jackson High School, while Honey Run Elementary School will […]