Oskaloosa News Recap For February 24th, 2021
Dogs in Russia are changing colors.
The bizarre phenomenon is occurring in and around the town of Dzerzhinsk near an abandoned chemical plant that once manufactured highly toxic hydrocyanic acid a core ingredient in a once commonly used “Prussian blue” dye.
Veterinarians are blaming the blue hue on “some kind of chemical,” which doesn’t appear to have harmed the pups physically.
The blue dogs will remain under close investigation for about 20 days.
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Coca-Cola’s new diversity training urges employees to be “less white.”
The “Confronting Racism” course, offered to the company by LinkedIn Education, contained a slide that read: “In the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white.”
Oskaloosa News Recap For February 17th, 2021
National and World News
The 5-year-old girl who was injured in the car crash involving then-Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid is awake from a coma.
Almost two weeks after the crash “Ariel Young is awake,” her family posted on their GoFundMe Page. They did not expand on her medical condition.
Authorities are still investigating the crash that occurred on Feb. 4 when Reid’s pickup struck two other vehicles parked on a highway entrance ramp. One of the vehicles had run out of gas and the other which Ariel was sitting in was there to help. The NFL is also looking into the incident.