In the wake of a cyberattack at the Wichita County Courthouse, County Judge Jim Johnson warns residents to “exercise diligence” to monitor their credit reports, bank statements and other sensitive documents and report any suspicious activity to their financial institutions. The county suffered the attack on May 7. Johnson said was done by “malicious actors.” […]
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‘We’re in a Nightmare’ — Revisiting PEOPLE’s 2022 Cover Story 2 Years After School Shooting
On May 24, 2022, a gunman opened fire inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers People June 13, 2022 cover, left, and Robb Elementary School Alexandria Rubio usually liked to go home early after the annual end-of-year awards ceremony at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. But this year, […]
Air quality in, near Baton Rouge can affect people’s health if conditions worsen
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Baton Rouge and surrounding areas are currently under an air quality alert. “It’s not just for East Baton Rouge but West Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupee, Iberville, Ascension, Livingston parishes, all of these parishes are impacted by the air pollution that’s generated by Baton Rouge,” said BRProud Chief Meteorologist Sam Parish. […]
North KC museum among PEOPLE’s top 25 places to visit
NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Friday’s PEOPLE Magazine 2024 Food and Travel Special issue will feature a North Kansas City museum among it’s top 25 bucket-list travel spots. You could drive through an industrial area off the highway in North Kansas City and probably never notice it, but in the two months since it opened […]
‘Don’t be confined to other people’s perception’
Vice President Harris opened up about criticism over her laugh in an upcoming interview. Harris, in an interview with “The Drew Barrymore Show” that will air Monday, acknowledged that people often like to make fun of public figures when they trip or fall, and then mentioned the talk about how she laughs. “You were asking […]
Frustrated with Brazil’s Lula, Indigenous peoples march to demand land recognition
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Thousands of Indigenous people marched on Thursday in Brazil’s capital, calling on the government to officially recognize lands they have lived on for centuries and to protect territories from criminal activities like illegal mining. With posters bearing messages like, “The future is Indigenous,” they walked towards Three Powers Square, where Congress, […]
Ozempic use appears to be changing people’s personalities —experts think they know why
Move over, Ozempic finger, Ozempic face and Ozempic butt — say hello to Ozempic personality. The latest transformative outcome of the buzzy weight loss drug may be the most profound yet, with a growing number of patients claiming that the GLP-1 medication — and others like it — have caused anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation, even as […]
‘Preying on people’s fears.’ Fort Worth neighborhoods oppose new license plate readers
Carol Peters and her neighbors in the Fort Worth neighborhood of West Meadowbrook do a good enough job of taking care of each other, in her opinion. “We keep tabs on each other, as most neighbors do,” said Peters, president of the West Meadowbrook Neighborhood Association. While most of the homes in her neighborhood are […]
Kansas moves to join Texas and other states in requiring porn sites to verify people’s ages
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is poised to require pornography websites to verify visitors are adults, a move that would follow Texas and a handful of other states despite concerns about privacy and how broadly the law could be applied. The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature passed the proposal Tuesday, sending it to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. […]
State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago. So, Sandy LoGrande thought it was a mistake when, a year after her father’s death, Massachusetts billed […]
Jamie Dimon doesn’t care if Bitcoin hit a record high, but will defend people’s right to buy it like he’ll defend your right to smoke a cigarette
A Bitcoin frenzy has pushed the price of the cryptocurrency above $72,000 to a record high, but even that isn’t enough to convince JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon of its value. Over the past month the price of the digital currency has surged more than 40%, prompting bullish backers to hail the end of the […]
Barring driver’s license changes doesn’t violate trans people’s rights
TOPEKA, Kansas — A Kansas judge ruled Monday that the state isn’t violating transgender residents’ rights under the state constitution by refusing to change their driver’s licenses to reflect their gender identities. District Judge Teresa Watson kept in place indefinitely an order she first issued in July 2023 to prevent the Kansas Department of Revenue […]