Fresh News Now

Related Posts - Fresh news now

• 'Scared to go to school': Denver shooting stokes backlash Outraged Denver students and parents demanded better school security and pushed for tighter firearm controls Thursday, a day after a 17-year-old student shot and wounded two administrators at a city high school beset with violence. More than 1,000 students rallied at the Colorado Capitol to push gun reform legislation, while school board members endorsed the district superintendent's abrupt reversal of a policy that had banned armed officers from Denver schools. The shooting at East High School near downtown occurred as administrators were searching for weapons on suspect Austin Lyle, who fled from the scene and was found dead Wednesday night…
• Projects underway that will restore life to Biscayne Bay, Florida Everglades Wednesday is World Water Day, a day that highlights the importance of fresh water and the sustainable management of fresh water resources. On this day, we honor the most precious to all of us who live in Florida, the Everglades. After a century of human-caused disruptions to the natural flow of the River of Grass, urgent and multibillion-dollar restoration projects are now taking place. It is the dawn of a new era for the Florida Everglades. After decades of planning, at long last what was wronged is finally being made right. “This project is critical for Miami Dade County’s resilience…
• Police: 6 dead after work-zone crash on Baltimore Beltway Six people were killed when a passenger vehicle pulled into a work zone along the Baltimore beltway and struck construction workers there, Maryland State Police said Wednesday. Troopers responded to the work zone on northbound Interstate 695 at Security Boulevard in the Woodlawn area around 12:40 p.m. for a report of a pedestrian crash, police said in a news release. Emergency medical service personnel pronounced six people, all of them workers, dead on the scene, and the driver of the car was taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center’s Shock Trauma Center, police said. The preliminary investigation found that…
• Mayor goes on national TV to defend MiamiCoin benefits even after suspension MiamiCoin was virtually worthless on Wednesday, but this didn’t stop Miami Mayor Francis X. Suarez from going on national television to defend the venture yet again. In 2021, Suarez told Fox News that the MiamiCoin — which he described as not an involuntary tax and not philanthropy — was a model with the potential to “revolutionize the way governments are funded.” In 2022, when MiamiCoin lost value, Suarez stood up for MiamiCoin and told Fox News that it was “a success from the perspective of what it has done for the city.” “It wasn’t a city-sponsored or city-promoted ... initiative.…
• Parkland father Manuel Oliver after arrest over protest: ‘I represented my son and he has a voice’ Manuel Oliver, whose 17-year-old son Joaquin was among the 17 victims of the Parkland school shooting, was arrested for protesting during a hearing Thursday in Washington, D.C. Oliver first used Twitter to protest. He wrote that it was “incredible” to watch “how Republicans decided” to attack the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Oliver wrote the lawmakers were doing so instead of addressing “America’s gun violence epidemic” and he accused them of serving “their role as Gun Industry’s little [expletive]!” Oliver, who was with his wife Patricia Oliver, later stood up during the “ATF Overreach” U.S. House committee hearing…