Unaccompanied veteran burial held in honor of local serviceman
Sincher, who was 92 years old, was honored with an unaccompanied veteran burial. In the seven years since the inception of the Unaccompanied Veterans Program, there have been 181 unaccompanied veteran burials at the four cemeteries. The Texas State Veterans Cemeteries Program oversees burial ceremonies for an average of 2,700 per year, nearly half of which are interred in Killeen. “Throughout the year we get several unaccompanied veterans, not many,” Mungia said. We don’t diminish anything.”The Veterans Land Board website, www.vlb.texas.go, offers a notification service for unaccompanied veteran burials.
myrgv.comKylie Jenner’s ‘naked’ bikini bears striking resemblance to small Chicago-area retailer’s The TaTa Top
The Jean Paul Gaultier-designed bikini that depicts a nipple and worn by Kylie Jenner on Instagram is strikingly similar to suit made by The TaTa Top, says the Chicago-area small business's owner.
chicagotribune.comA Republican congressman who voted to impeach Trump and called him a 'would-be tyrant' says he might support the former president again 'if he apologized' for January 6
Facing a Trump-backed challenger, Rep. Tom Rice has the support of Paul Ryan, who said most Republicans "just didn't have the guts" to impeach Trump.
news.yahoo.comHow Biden, cops and advocates forged deal on police and race
Jim Pasco, the executive director for the Fraternal Order of Police, was watching football on a Sunday afternoon when he got a call from Susan Rice, the top domestic policy adviser at the White House. Negotiations over an executive order to address racism and policing were in danger of breaking down after a draft was leaked that law enforcement groups believed was too harsh toward officers. Now Rice was looking to get things back on track.
news.yahoo.comBehind-the-scenes look: Rice University’s stunning new Opera Hall
Houston Life Reporter Lauren Kelly joins us live from Rice University’s brand new opera hall. She will show us what it takes to stage an opera performance. Kelly will show us the wigs and costumes, and she will get on stage with performers. The entire Houston community is invited April 9 for a tour, but you and your family can get a preview Thursday on Houston Life.
LGBTQ activists mark Transgender Day of Visibility with a rally honoring two Black Chicagoans who died in March
Evanston LGBTQ activist Elise Malary, whose body was found in Lake Michigan March 17, and Chicagoan Tatiana “Tee Tee” Whetstone, 33, who was found dead in a garbage bin March 18.
chicagotribune.comBook review of The Year that Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes That Changed Ev
The events of 2000, including the disputed election and the 9/11 hijackers' preparations, "broke" America, Andrew Rice argues.
washingtonpost.comWoman charged in 2007 death of 18-year-old roommate
A North Dakota woman has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of her roommate more than a decade ago, with authorities citing shifting statements from the woman and her parents as they pursued a cold-case investigation. Nichole Erin Rice, 34, had a court appearance Thursday in Ward County in the death of 18-year-old Anita Knutson, whose body was found in their apartment on June 4, 2007. Rice was arrested Wednesday at the Minot Air Force Base where she worked as a civilian, Minot Police Chief John Klug said.
news.yahoo.comEx-Roommate Arrested 14 Years After Brutal Murder of College Student
Police handout / courtesy Anna KnutsonFor nearly 15 years, Anita Knutson’s family anxiously waited for authorities to track down who was responsible for brutally murdering the 18-year-old Minot State University student inside her off-campus apartment.That day finally arrived this week with the arrest of 34-year-old Nichole Rice, who was Knutson’s roommate and had previously told police she was out of town at her parents’ house at the time of the June 4, 2007, murder. Rice, who was arrested at th
news.yahoo.comCrossing Trump: 2 SC Republicans take different approaches
Under pressure recently to prove her loyalty to Donald Trump, Rep. Nancy Mace traveled to New York and filmed a social media video outside Trump Tower reminding her South Carolina constituents that she was one of the former president's “earliest supporters." Facing similar scrutiny, Rep. Tom Rice has taken a different approach, quietly winding through rural stretches of his congressional district to remind voters of his work securing federal relief for frequent — often disastrous — flooding, and of his advocacy for agricultural improvements. Lifelong Republicans representing neighboring congressional districts in one of the most reliably GOP states in the U.S., Mace and Rice are unlikely players in the fierce debate over the future of their party.
news.yahoo.comRice University, ex-piano instructor named in lawsuit alleging child sex abuse
A Houston woman has filed a sexual assault lawsuit against Rice University and a former piano instructor – who is serving time for indecency with another child – claiming years of abuse that began when she was just 10 years old.
Raising awareness, and a glass: Mission brewery introduces new ‘tlacuaches’ brew to benefit animal rescue
Locally owned business the 5X5 Brewing Company hosted a fundraiser and food drive here Saturday to help Yaqui Animal Rescue, a nonprofit, no-kill animal shelter based in Sullivan City, while also raising awareness about the only North American marsupial and the Rio Grande Valley’s unofficial mascot — the opossum, or tlacuache, as they are better known throughout South Texas.
myrgv.comMan accused of trying to intimidate judge in Potter trial
A Minneapolis man has been charged with trying to intimidate the judge presiding over the manslaughter trial of the former officer charged in Daunte Wright's death. The Star Tribune reports Cortez A. Rice was charged last week with tampering with a judicial officer, a felony. Rice allegedly went into the Loring Park condominium building where he thought Judge Regina Chu lived and made comments meant to intimidate her into allowing broadcast coverage of the trial of former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kimberly Potter, who is charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Wright, 20, in April.
news.yahoo.com‘Sunny Is Just As Smart’: Condoleezza Rice’s ‘Brazenly Condescending’ Back and Forth with ‘The View’ Co-Host Sunny Hostin Called Out by Viewers
Sunny Hostin and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have different views regarding the Capitol riots that took place on Jan. 6. Those disagreements came […]
news.yahoo.comCondoleezza Rice says white kids shouldn’t be made to feel bad over CRT on ‘The View’
Condoleezza Rice brought her own distinct view to the ABC daytime chatfest as the panel discussed critical race theory and […] The post Condoleezza Rice says white kids shouldn’t be made to feel bad over CRT on ‘The View’ appeared first on TheGrio.
news.yahoo.com‘They screwed up our lake’: tar sands pipeline is sucking water from Minnesota watersheds
The Anishinaabe people are rallying to save their lakes and their traditional wild rice harvests Low water levels mean rice harvesters can’t paddle their canoes to their traditional harvesting areas. Photograph: Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Along the eastern boundary of the White Earth Indian Reservation in north-western Minnesota, Indigenous Anishinaabe wild rice harvesters Jerry and Jim Libby set down a row of wooden pallets into the mud just beyond the dock of Upper Wild Rice Lake. It was a c
news.yahoo.com‘We have to protect our clientele’: Some Houston employers strongly encouraging staff to get COVID-19 vaccine
HOUSTON – With all adults in Texas now able to sign up for the COVID vaccine, many employers are coming up with plans to encourage their employees to get vaccinated. We are 22,000-square-feet and it’s just we have to protect everybody.”For now, at the Rice Village salon, it’s not a mandate for employees to get the vaccine, but they are strongly encouraging it. We have to protect our clientele and we have to protect our business. AdWe’ve checked with several local businesses and most, for now, said they are strongly encouraging their employees to get vaccinated, but not requiring it at this time. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner’s office said the Mayor is doing the same thing; encouraging municipal employees to get the vaccine, but not requiring it.