Day: August 4, 2023

Judge blocks Montana water pipeline meant to boost population of rare fish

3:01 pm August 4, 2023

A U.S. judge blocked a proposed water pipeline through a wilderness area in southwest Montana that was intended to help a rare fish species that’s in sharp decline due to habitat loss, warming temperatures and other pressures. The mile-long pipeline was intended to move oxygenated water that’s beneficial for fish from a creek to a […]

Potential ‘game-changer’: American Academy of Pediatrics reviewing support of youth gender treatments

3:01 pm August 4, 2023

The American Academy of Pediatrics quietly reaffirmed its 2018 policy supporting gender treatments on minors this week, as more states ban these practices on children. However, the leading pediatric group also called for a systematic review of the medical research supporting these treatments, a move that the organization has long resisted and was called a […]

Ohio Meals on Wheels volunteer receives award after learning American Sign Language for meal recipient

3:00 pm August 4, 2023

A Meals on Wheels volunteer is being recognized for her efforts in a first-of-its-kind award. Debbie Rickabaugh of Delaware, Ohio, has been delivering meals to those in need in and around her area for 16 years. Recently, she made a big impact on one meal recipient’s life. HOW MEALS ON WHEELS IS CHANGING ELDERLY LIVES […]

California judge arrested, charged with wife’s murder after fatal shooting

2:59 pm August 4, 2023

A California judge was arrested Thursday after the fatal shooting of his wife in their Anaheim home. Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, 72, was charged with the murder of his wife, 65-year-old Sheryl Ferguson, the Anaheim Police Department said in a news release. On Thursday, police received reports of a shooting that occurred […]

I’m a Black doctor suing California for its racist medical mandate

2:00 pm August 4, 2023

I know what racial progress looks like. I was one of the first Black students to attend Stanford University and the University of California San Francisco medical school. When I received my medical degree 50 years ago, in 1973, society was far from just. Yet it seemed that California was leading the nation toward a […]