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Nearly 19 months after enduring the loss of her three young daughters and her parents in a house fire on Christmas, Madonna Badger has returned to work.Badger is back at her desk at her successful Badger & Winters ad agency in Manhattan, which she runs with partner Jim Winters, according to a report by Women’s Wear Daily. Badger, 49, spent a majority of her recovery time during the past year a...
WILSONVILLE, Ore. (KMTR) - Public and private partners are collaborating in response to this week’s die off of bees in Wilsonville by taking measures to prevent further insect loss. Bee-proof netting is being placed on 55 European linden trees in the Target parking lot of Argyle Square at the site where an estimated 25,000 bumblebees were found dead or dying this week. Officials hope the n...
A monstrous wildfire blazed a trail through steep, rugged terrain in Colorado on Friday, threatening to scorch a tourist town in the state’s southwestern mountains, officials said.The approximately 400 residents of South Fork, Colo., were forced to evacuate Friday as the fast-moving blaze barreled through the Rio Grande National Forest, carried along by dry, rough winds, according to a statement f...
“My voice is kind of going. I’ve got to get used to this!” says Antonio Elizondo, a 23-year-old Union Summer intern from Los Angeles.Elizondo is one of about 30 interns who converged on the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., this week for workshops and classes on activism and union organizing as the start of Union Summer, the AFL-CIO’s national program that introduces interns to the labor movement on union organizing campaigns.
Prosecutors will be allowed to tell jurors that George Zimmerman "profiled" black teenager Trayvon Martin before their deadly confrontation, as long as they don't use the term exclusively to refer to race, the judge ruled Friday.Lawyers for Zimmerman, who is of white and Hispanic descent, had asked the Florida court to bar prosecutors from using the term during opening statements, which are slated...
The 89-year-old son of the late philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor was sent prison Friday afternoon, four years after he was found guilty of pilfering millions from his ailing mother.Anthony Marshall will serve a one- to three-year term in a New York-based penitentiary. Marshall was convicted in October 2009 after he allegedly siphoned off millions of dollars from the estate of his dementia...
