Month: May 2023

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The mental health of LGBTQ youth is worsening in today’s political climate, according to the results of a national survey released Monday by The Trevor Project. Nearly one in three LGBTQ youth surveyed said their mental health was poor most of the time or always because of legislation and policies targeting the LGBTQ community in US states. Nearly two in three LGBTQ youth said that “hearing about potential state or local laws that prohibit people from discussing LGBTQ people at school (aka ‘Don’t say gay’) made their health much worse mental”. The nonprofit — which has been working since 1998…

WASHINGTON (AP) – The former leader of the Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right extremist group were convicted Thursday of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election. A jury in Washington, DC, found Tarrio and three lieutenants guilty seditious conspiracy after listening to dozens of witnesses for more than three months in one of the most serious cases brought to the stunning attack that unfolded on January 6, 2021, as the world saw on live television. Jurors…

Four people died Thursday in a small town in rural southern Georgia, including a fast-food worker and two relatives of a gunman who killed himself, the local coroner said. The shooter killed his mother and grandmother in two neighboring homes and killed a woman at a McDonald’s restaurant in downtown Moultrie, Colquitt County Coroner C. Verlyn Brock told The Associated Press. He said the gunman killed himself. Brock did not provide the identities of the shooter or the victims. He said he did not know if the gunman and the McDonald’s worker knew each other. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation…

Eufaula Police Chief Mark Goodwin has resigned effective immediately. Goodwin, in a letter to City Manager Jeb Jones obtained by the Phoenix, said he can no longer serve in his position. “I truly loved leading my officers and serving our citizens,” Goodwin said in the letter. “However, it has become apparent to me that City Manager Jeb Jones and I have major differences in how the Eufaula Police Department should be run. I cannot, in good conscience, remain as chief of police and make the changes that he is. requiring me to join.” Jones declined to comment, saying he could…

Four people died Thursday in a small town in rural southern Georgia, including a fast-food worker and two relatives of a gunman who killed himself, the local coroner said. The shooter killed his mother and grandmother in two neighboring homes and killed a woman at a McDonald’s restaurant in downtown Moultrie, Colquitt County Coroner C. Verlyn Brock told The Associated Press. He said the gunman killed himself. Brock did not provide the identities of the shooter or the victims. He said he did not know if the gunman and the McDonald’s worker knew each other. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation…

Arconic, a Pittsburgh-based company with a plant in Riverdale, has been acquired. The company announced Thursday morning that Apollo Global Management, Inc. is buying the company for $5.2 billion. The purchase includes a minority investment of funds managed by subsidiaries of Irenic Capital Management. Subscribe today and support local journalism! In the Quad-Cities, Arconic employs 2,400 people, according to the Quad-Cities Chamber of Commerce. United Steel Workers Local 105 guide Lee Shaffer said there was no immediate cause for concern. “We’re still looking into it,” he said Thursday afternoon. “As we know right now, it shouldn’t affect us too much.”…

Several people were shot to death at various locations in Moultrie, Georgia on Thursday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed to CBS News. Four people died, with one person by suicide, Colquitt County Coroner C. Verlyn Brock confirmed to CBS News. A shooter, who has not yet been identified by authorities, shot his mother and grandmother in their home, Brock said. Her mother died at the scene, but the grandmother, who lived next door to her daughter, was taken to hospital and died there, the coroner confirmed. The shooter then went to a McDonald’s where he shot and killed a…