Tag: Social issues
Police: Man with pole trashes Asian-owned convenience store
CHARLOTTE — An Asian-owned convenience store in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been trashed by a man who wielded a metal post and yelled racial...
West Brom’s Robinson scores 2 at Chelsea, gets racial abuse
LONDON — West Bromwich Albion contacted the police over racist abuse sent on social media to Callum Robinson after the forward scored twice in...
Bodanovic scores 26 points, Hawks beat Pelicans 126-103
<p>NEW ORLEANS — Bogdan Bodanovic scored 26 points, Kevin Huerter added 24 and five other Atlanta players scored in double figures as the short-handed...
Lawsuits: SC officials ignored risks ahead of prison riot
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A slew of new lawsuits accuse South Carolina prisons officials of negligence and constitutional rights violations in a 2018 riot in...
Houston’s Sampson gets emotional talking about his father
Houston coach Kelvin Sampson grew emotional Friday talking about his father, John W. “Ned” Sampson, the longtime coach of Pembroke High School in North...
Immigrants with temporary status have grown deep roots in US
<p>SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Irma Chavez is a married mother of four who leads a business networking initiative in this small Arkansas city she calls...
Israel’s dilemma: Can the unvaccinated return to workplaces?
<p>JERUSALEM — After spending much of the past year in lockdown, Tel Aviv makeup artist Artyom Kavnatsky was ready to get back to work....
Virus pandemic overshadows Bulgarian parliamentary election
<p>SOFIA, Bulgaria — After months of nationwide anti-government protests over corruption, stalled reforms and a stagnating economy in the European Union’s poorest member state,...
Immigrants with temporary status have grown deep roots in US
SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Irma Chavez is a married mother of four who leads a business networking initiative in this small Arkansas city she calls...
Ex-youth center intern says she was told to destroy notes
<p>CONCORD, N.H. — A former intern at New Hampshire’s youth detention center says a supervisor suggested she destroy her notes and lie about a...