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Hello from Houston! We are here for the Lanier Library Lecture.
Some Trick-or-Treaters may need a watch:
(Meredith) — Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me a… Class 4 misdemeanor?
In six Virginia cities, that’s exactly what will happen to any child who is found trick-or-treating after 8 p.m. or is older than age 12.
According to WAVY-TV, the city code of Virginia Beach, Virginia states that trick-or-treating hours are from sunset until 8 p.m. for children 12 and under. It is against the law for any child over 12 years old to trick-or-treat at any time, and they will be found guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.
But the city code doesn’t stop there. Any child — no matter what age — will be found guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor if they trick-or-treat past 8 p.m.
Virginia Beach isn’t the only city with these laws. The nearby cities of Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Suffolk have the same laws.
SEBASTOPOL, Calif. (Reuters) – The staggering decline of honey bee colonies has alarmed experts across the United States, but an unconventional apiculturist in California thinks he has found a way to save them.Michael Thiele has championed an approach he calls the “rewilding” of honeybees, allowing them to live as they did for millions of years — in natural log hives high above the ground.
“We can do this very, very simple thing — return bees into their natural nest environment, into their natural biosphere,” said German-born Thiele at his home in Sebastopol, California. “If we lose them due to human-induced mass extinction, will there be a tomorrow?”
Thiele’s method consists of hollowing out logs and strapping them high on tree trunks to mimic bees’ hives before they were domesticated. He also sometimes suspends them from barn rafters or perches them high on wooden tables for a similar effect.
Honey bees are critical to the planet’s ecosystem because they pollinate plants that produce about a quarter of the food consumed by Americans, according to U.S. government reports.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience in California on Monday that even after she was diagnosed for the fourth time with cancer, she never stopped working out, although she couldn’t always complete her full routine.
“I do pushups,” the 86-year-old told an audience at Berkeley Law, adding that she planks, “both front and side,” as well as does weight-bearing exercises with her personal trainer.
Asked how she is feeling now, Ginsburg said that compared with six months ago she is doing “very well.”
The comments come as the Supreme Court is on a brief recess after its first sitting. Ginsburg was an active participant on the bench as the court heard a blockbuster LGBT case and decided to add other significant issues to an already robust docket.
Ginsburg announced in August that she had been treated for pancreatic cancer and the tumor had been treated “definitively.”
CHICAGO — Thousands of local families burdened with medical debt are getting some much-needed relief ahead of the holiday season.
A coalition of local churches worked with the nonprofit group RIP Medical Debt to raise $38,000, which is enough to purchase more than $5 million worth of debt belonging to close to 6,000 struggling families. And clear it all out.
“We were able to raise funds to purchase 5.3 million worth of debt in the city of Chicago and Cook County,” said Dr. Otis Moss III, Trinity United Church of Christ.
Parishioners and church leaders celebrated the huge announcement at Trinity United church Sunday. The forgiven debts average $907 dollars a household.
Some struggling South Side families will have some their prayers answered this Thanksgiving.
“They will receive a very special card before Thanksgiving – completely anonymous, they don’t know this is coming – the card will simply say, ‘have a wonderful Thanksgiving. We want you to know all your debts have been forgiven,'” Moss said.
(CNN)When Andrella “Lashae” Jackson was pulled over on October 12 by a Milwaukee police officer who noticed her two young daughters were not in car seats, the single mom of five expected to leave with a hefty ticket.
Instead, Officer Kevin Zimmerman purchased and installed two car seats for the girls, Niyah and Sky, and issued Jackson a simple verbal warning.“My girls couldn’t stop thanking him and it made them smile….shout out to Officer Zimmerman at District 5,” Jackson said on Facebook. “We appreciate it a lot.”
Zimmerman stopped Jackson for not having proper registration when he noticed the children without any seat belts or car seats, the police department said.When he asked her why, Jackson said she couldn’t afford car seats at the time.”With bills coming up and winter coming up, I have to get coats and boots and shoes for my kids,” Jackson told CNN affiliate WTMJ. “So it was hard for me.”
Zimmerman, in a statement provided to CNN, said he decided to visit Walmart to buy two car seats. The 12-year MPD veteran also stopped by the police department to pick up stickers and children’s books for the girls. He then visited Jackson’s home and installed the car seats himself.
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