Stories of anxiety and heartbreak are swirling around the surprise and seemingly well orchestrated hacking this week of assistance benefits received by Pueblo County residents. Funding for food that came through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is missing from some Pueblo County residents’ accounts. Payment to some customers of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Family […]
The US has put Yemen’s Houthis rebels back on its list of designated global terrorists, piling financial sanctions on top of military strikes in the Biden administration’s latest attempt to stop the militants’ attacks on global shipping. Officials said they would design the financial penalties to minimise harm to Yemen’s 32 million people, who are […]
As the sun rose Saturday, more than 300 mothers and fathers stood in line with blankets around their shoulders and hats pulled over their ears, waiting in the cold for a Harnett County angel. They queued up at dawn because Melanie Stewart, better known around Lillington as “Mama Moses,” promised free bicycles and toys as […]
After her husband was partially paralyzed by a stroke, she became the sole provider for her family. Our remarkable neighbor, a devoted wife and mother, does her best to balance work, family responsibilities and medical care for her husband. And the challenges keep coming. As they waited for Social Security Disability Insurance, the family stayed […]