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ATLANTA—An ex-police officer, Garrett Rolfe, sued Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and interim police chief, Rodney Bryant, Tuesday, August 4, 2020.  In the lawsuit, Rolfe claims that he was fired “without an investigation, without proper notice, without a disciplinary hearing, and in direct violation of the municipal code of the City of Atlanta,” according to the lawsuit first revealed by the...

CHICAGO, IL—On Monday, August 10, a 55-year-old woman and her 20-year-old daughter were struck by a hit-and-run driver in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. The woman was pronounced dead on the scene. The daughter survived. The suspect, Edgar Roman has been arrested. According to authorities, the incident occurred in the first block of East Hubbard Street at 10:30 p.m. on August...

PORTLAND—Marquise Love, accused of assaulting a man at a Portland protest, turned himself in on the morning of Friday, August 21. Detectives and the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office coordinated with his attorney the morning before his arrest.  Love, 25, was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on felony charges of second-degree assault, riot, and coercion. His bail is set at...

UNITED STATES—Last week, over 1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits. According to the U.S. Labor Department report released on the 27th, the number of people filing for unemployment aid decreased by 98,000 from 1.1 million a week ago.  The number of unemployment claims filed has remained over 1 million every week since late March. An estimated 27 million people...

SAN FRANCISCO—Uber's headquarters in San Francisco released a new policy requiring riders to provide photographic proof they’re wearing a mask before riding inside an Uber. The company’s new decision states that if a driver reports to Uber that a rider wasn’t wearing a mask, that rider will have to provide Uber with a selfie with a mask on next time...

PORTLAND, OR—A man was charged with igniting multiple brush fires by using Molotov cocktail including the one along the west side of the I-205 freeway on Sunday, September 13. At 3:37 a.m. on September 14, Portland Police East Precinct officers responded to six fires reported to transpire along the west side of the I-205 freeway. Portland Fire and Rescue extinguished...

UNITED STATES—On Monday, December 21, members of Congress agreed on a $1.4 trillion federal spending package to fund the federal government another year. The new bill is nearly 5,600 pages long and is one of the longest bills ever written. A total of $2.3 billion of the government funding package includes COVID-19 Relief. The bill passed in the House of Representatives...

MICHIGAN—On Friday, March 12, four people in the state of Michigan split the third-largest lottery prize in US history and the largest  in the state at $1.5 billion. The names have not been released from the Powerball drawing on January 22. Officials stated that the individuals are members of an Oakland County lottery club called The Wolverine FLL Club....

UNITED STATES—On May 13, Abbott, the manufacturing company that makes Similac baby formula, provided an update on the global formula shortage noting they are working to address the “483 Observances” at the Sturgis, Michigan plant so they may reopen. “We could restart our Sturgis, Michigan site within two weeks,” Abbott announced. On Wednesday, May 18, President Joe Biden signed a memorandum...

UNITED STATES—Clovis North High School senior, Maddie Mueller is challenging the Clovis Unified School District on dress code after being informed she could not wear a MAGA (Make America Great Again) hat to school. “How does being a patriot in trying to show pride in your country, how is that inappropriate? To my knowledge Trump is not a logo, it’s...