Day: August 28, 2023

DeSantis directs $1M to secure historically Black college, $100K for families of Jacksonville shooting victims

7:02 pm August 28, 2023

GOP presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday directed $1 million to bolster security at a historically Black college near the site of what authorities deemed a racially motivated shooting that killed three Black people at a Dollar General in Jacksonville over the weekend. The governor also pledged $100,000 to help the families of […]

Whitmer to push for ObamaCare’s enshrinement into Michigan law

6:16 pm August 28, 2023

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will call on state lawmakers this week to pass legislation proactively protecting key provisions in the Affordable Care Act, including no-cost preventive services, as the nation’s health law continues to face legal challenges in federal court. Whitmer, who is in her second term and working for the first time with a […]

Spain urges Mauritania to allow 168 rescued migrants to disembark Spanish vessel

6:04 pm August 28, 2023

About 170 migrants who were rescued in the Atlantic Ocean have been stuck aboard a Spanish Civil Guard boat for days near the northwest African nation of Mauritania after authorities there refused to let them disembark, according to Spanish media reports. Spain’s Interior Ministry on Monday declined to provide details of the incident but said […]

Former AL deputy, who sexually assaulted a detained woman in desolate area, gets 12 years

6:03 pm August 28, 2023

A former deputy sheriff in Alabama has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman while he was on duty in Selma, federal prosecutors said. The U.S. Department of Justice wrote in a plea agreement that Joshua Davidson, 33, stopped the woman’s vehicle in Dallas County in 2020 for […]

5 passengers, including 4 children, dead off Greek islands after 2 migrant boats sink near Turkey

6:02 pm August 28, 2023

Five people, including four children, died and dozens were rescued Monday in two separate incidents involving migrant boats heading to Greek islands from nearby Turkish shores, Greek authorities said. The coast guard said four people died and 18 were rescued after a boat carrying migrants apparently sank northeast of the Greek island of Lesbos, which […]