The University of Maryland has reached a $ 3.5 million settlement with the family of Jordan McNair, the offensive lineman who died after suffering heatstroke during a team workout in 2018.
Vernon Jordan, civil rights leader and close ally of Bill Clinton, dies
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Washington Vernon Jordan, a civil rights leader and close adviser to former President Bill Clinton, died Monday evening, multiple sources close to the family tell CNN. He was 85. The former president of the National ...
A Virginia Commonwealth University fraternity has been suspended after the death of a 19-year-old student
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Virginia Commonwealth University has suspended a fraternity after a student was found dead at an off-campus house on Saturday. The VCU chapter of the Delta Chi fraternity was also suspended by the national Delta Chi...
Purple Heart left at thrift store is returned to the family of a deceased veteran
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Want more inspiring, positive news? Sign up for The Good Stuff, a newsletter for the good in life. It will brighten your inbox every Saturday morning. When Teresa Ferrin found a Purple Heart at the Phoenix thrift...
A family is trying to get ‘orbisculate’ into the dictionary to honor their dad who died of Covid-19
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You know when you dig into a grapefruit and, suddenly, its juice squirts you in the eye? There's a word for it. Hello, orbisculate. It's a word that the Krieger family of Boston is trying to get into the dictionary ...
15 years ago a woman found a photo of an unknown family in a used book. Through the power of Twitter, she’s mailing it back to surviving members
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Every few years, a New York City woman took a moment to admire the family photo tucked away on her shelf -- but it wasn't a photo of her own family. Victoria Johnson came across the decades-old photo 15 years ago i...
WNBA team Atlanta Dream sold to new owners — including a former player
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The Atlanta Dream, the WNBA team previously co-owned by former US Sen. Kelly Loeffler, has been sold. The sale of the team to Larry Gottesdiener, chairman of the national real estate firm Northland, was unanimously ...
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, renames 2 dorms for Black civil rights leaders
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Two dorms at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will now bear the names of two Black civil rights leaders in the state "whose fight for equity and social justice transformed the state's higher education system ...
Saudi Arabia is experiencing the downside of betting on the Trump family
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This was excerpted from the February 25 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. In diplomacy, as in physics, every...
Maryland man pleads not guilty to bringing loaded gun to Capitol insurrection
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Days after a Republican senator said the US Capitol attack wasn't an "armed insurrection," a Maryland man pleaded not guilty to carrying a loaded handgun on the Capitol grounds on the day of the attack. Christopher...
A New Jersey plumber drove to Texas with his family to fix burst pipes and other damage from devastating winter storm
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A New Jersey plumber who wanted to help Texans dealing with burst pipes and other damage after last week's winter storms drove to Houston with a truck full of tools and got to work. Andrew Mitchell and his wife, Kis...
He had to drop out of Morgan State for financial reasons. Now he’s given $20 million to the university
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Want more inspiring, positive news? Sign up for The Good Stuff, a newsletter for the good in life. It will brighten your inbox every Saturday morning. Two years after Calvin Tyler first enrolled at Morgan State ...
Family rifts seem on the rise. Here’s why they happen and how to cope
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Each week, Sheri McGregor gets hundreds of emails from parents shut out of their children's lives. Every story is different, she said. What the parents have in common is a profound sense of isolation. "They say, 'I...