Shakea Roper didn’t imagine she would become a leader in her neighborhood. “I really am more of, like, an introvert,” the 41-year-old social worker says. “I wave to my neighbors if they wave, I might have a little chit-chat, but that’s the extent.” Even so, Roper has created a weekly walking group in one of Kansas City’s historically disadvantaged neighborhoods …
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Fungi are best known for returning dead, organic matter to the Earth, but materials scientists are exploring whether they could someday help our bodies repair, in the form of special hydrogels. To play a role in biomedical settings, a hydrogel needs a multilayered structure like our own skin, cartilage and muscles. While some engineers are working on synthetic versions that …
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Cincinnati, Ohio — If Shacole Fox’s wedding processional last month in Cincinnati, Ohio, had been typical, the man walking her down the aisle would have been her father, a close relative, or even a good friend. Not Fox’s landlord. “Right? I wouldn’t have thought in a million years,” Fox told CBS News of her decision to have her landlord, 79-year-old …
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Six people were shot and one slashed in four separate incidents that took place near the route of the West Indian Day Parade in Crown Heights Monday evening. The bloodshed followed a largely peaceful weekend as New Yorkers celebrated Caribbean heritage with the annual event that draws hundreds of thousands of people to the borough. But the weekend also has …
Read More »Freshman Florida State linebacker Ethan Pritchard is in critical, but stable condition in the intensive care unit after sustaining a gunshot wound on Sunday night in Havana, Florida. He was in Havana visiting family, approximately 17 miles from Tallahassee, and is in a nearby hospital. “The Pritchard family is thankful for the support from so many people, as well as …
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A woman tragically died after giving birth to her newborn son in Canada, with her grieving husband blaming the hospital for failing to recognize her symptoms or prescribe medication. Ravinder Kaur Sidhu, 40, and her husband Gurinder Sidhu, 35, had traveled to Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario and had their baby boy on June 19. According to Gurinder, there was …
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New York City police responded on Monday evening to reports of an armed suspect on Park Avenue in Manhattan. The gunman later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Two senior New York City officials told NBC News that at least one police officer and another person were shot. A police official speaking to CNN said one person is in critical …
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