Sharon Lurye

2 weeks ago | chronicle-tribune.com | Sharon Lurye

It was an unusual question coming from a police officer. Heather Brady was napping at home in San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon when the officer knocked on her door to ask: Had she applied to Arizona Western College? She had not, and as the officer suspected, somebody else had applied to Arizona community colleges in her name to scam the government into paying out financial aid money. kAm(96? D96 4964<65 96C DEF56?E =@2? D6CG:46C 244@F?E[ qC25J D2H E96 D42>>6CD 925?VE DE@AA65 E96C6] p =@2?

2 weeks ago | chronicle-tribune.com | Collin Binkley |Sharon Lurye

FERRIDAY, La. (AP) — Even at a glance, the differences are obvious. The walls of Ferriday High School are old and worn, surrounded by barbed wire. Just a few miles away, Vidalia High School is clean and bright, with a new library and a crisp blue “V” painted on orange brick. Ferriday High is 90% Black. Vidalia High is 62% white. kAmu@C q=24< 72>:=:6D[ E96 4@?EC2DE 36EH66? E96 D49@@=D DF886DED “H6’C6 ?@E DFAA@D65 E@ 92G6 E96 7:?6C E9:?8D[” D2:5 qC:2? s2G:D[ 2 72E96C :?

2 weeks ago | timesdaily.com | Sharon Lurye

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2 weeks ago | legalnews.com | Collin Binkley |Sharon Lurye

By Collin Binkley and Sharon Lurye Associated PressFERRIDAY, La. (AP) — Even at a glance, the differences are obvious. The walls of Ferriday High School are old and worn, surrounded by barbed wire. Just a few miles away, Vidalia High School is clean and bright, with a new library and a crisp blue “V” painted on orange brick. Ferriday High is 90% Black. Vidalia High is 62% white.

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Collin Binkley |Sharon Lurye |Lloyd Burr |John Gerritsen

Clyde Anderson has a thick, raised scar, three centimetres wide, that runs down the centre of his chest where his ribcage was cut open. In 2020, surgeons extracted veins from Anderson’s leg and grafted them to his heart in a quadruple bypass. His original coronary arteries had become so clogged with fat that he had had a heart attack. “I was truck-driving and eating when I could, eating fast food,” says Anderson, 54. At the time, he weighed around 120kg.