Author: Jason Dearen
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Lawsuit: Utah firm and lawmaker helped Mormons hide abuse
SALT LAKE CITY • Three children who were sexually abused by their father are accusing a Utah state legislator and a prominent Salt Lake City law firm of conspiring with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to cover up the abuse, allowing it to go on for years. In a court filing in…
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Officials release edited CDC coronavirus reopening guidance
NEW YORK • U.S. health officials Thursday released some of their long-delayed guidance that schools, businesses and other organizations can use as states reopen from coronavirus shutdowns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted six one-page “decision tool” documents that use traffic signs and other graphics to tell organizations what they should consider before…
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Florida man screams, yells ‘murderers!’ as he’s put to death
STARKE, Fla. — As the execution drugs were being administered, inmate Eric Scott Branch let out a blood-curdling scream. Then he yelled “murderers! murderers! murderers!” as he thrashed on a gurney as he was being put to death for the 1993 rape and slaying of a college student. The drugs included a powerful sedative Thursday…
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Fighting for gun control after shooting gives teens purpose
PARKLAND, Fla. — Chris Grady was a theater kid counting down the days until he reported for duty in the U.S. Army this summer, when a gunman opened fire at his school. As he huddled in his classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last Wednesday listening to shots ring out nearby, what he felt…
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He ‘saved my life and lost his:’ Las Vegas shooting victims
A registered nurse from Tennessee who died shielding his wife, a doctor, from gunfire. The only son of a Canadian couple who is now left childless. A popular secretary at a New Mexico High School. All were among the at least 59 people killed in the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las…
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Yellow wristbands, segregation for Florida homeless in Irma
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — In the wake of Hurricane Irma, homeless people and their advocates in Florida are complaining that some were turned away from shelters, separated from other evacuees via yellow wristbands, or otherwise ill-treated during the crisis. A record 72,000 Floridians sought refuge from the storm in early September at nearly 400 shelters.…
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FEMA estimates 25 percent of Florida Keys homes are gone
LOWER MATECUMBE KEY, Fla. — With 25 percent of the homes in the Florida Keys feared destroyed, emergency workers Tuesday rushed to find Hurricane Irma’s victims — dead or alive — and deliver food and water to the stricken island chain. As crews labored to repair the lone highway connecting the Keys, residents of some…
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U.S. buildings, NFL stadium check panels amid fears of fire
In promotional brochures, a U.S. company boasted of the “stunning visual effect” its shimmering aluminum panels created in an NFL stadium, an Alaskan high school and a luxury hotel along Baltimore’s Inner Harbor that “soars 33 stories into the air.” Those same panels — Reynobond composite material with a polyethylene core — also were used…
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Woman stolen at birth learns true identity; ‘Momma’ charged
WALTERBORO, S.C. — Stolen from a hospital just hours after she was born, an 18-year-old woman finally learned her true identity and was reunited Friday with her birth family, by video chat. The woman she thought was her mother was charged with her kidnapping. Thanks to DNA analysis, the 18-year-old now knows her birth name:…
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Family: Florida airport shooting suspect ‘lost his mind’ after tour in Iraq
Cardinal Joseph Tobin processes into Sacred Heart Cathedral on Jan. 6, 2017, in Newark, New Jersey for his installation mass as the new Archbishop of the archdiocese. RNS photo by Tom Gallagher The gunman was carrying a military ID with the name Esteban Santiago f.duckett