Brandon Bell/Getty Images(TULSA, Okla.) Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Ford Fletcher, both 109 years old, went to the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon to appeal the dismissal of their lawsuit against the City of Tulsa for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre."We are grateful that our now-weary bodies have held on long enough to witness an America, and an Oklahoma, that provides Race Massacre survivors with the opportunity to access the legal system," Randle and Fletcher, the last survivors of the incident, said in a joint statement Tuesday. "Many have come before us who have knocked and banged on the courthouse doors only to be turned around or never let through the door."The lawsuit, filed against the city, seeks reparations for Randle and Fletcher for injury, public nuisance and unjust enrichment others have gained from exploiting the massacre, according to court documents.Lawyers for the victims and their families are making the legal argument that the
Mayville man arrested in Sherman after being found in possession of stolen long-guns.
A Mayville man is accused of being in possession of multiple stolen long-guns following a parole check on a Ro.
Steve Granitz/FilmMagicFormer Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman will return to television for the first time since serving time behind bars for the "Varsity Blues" college admission scandal in the Paramount+ spinoff Criminal Minds: Evolution.ABC Audio has confirmed the actress will guest star in the forthcoming season as Dr. Jill Gideon, "a brilliant biological psychiatrist who agrees to help the FBI s Behavioral Analysis Unit investigate a murderous conspiracy theory."Gideon has a "complicated history" with Criminal Minds star Joe Mantegna s David Rossi and was married to Jason Gideon, Mandy Patinkin s Behavioral Analysis Unit team leader for two seasons of the show, who, it was revealed, was killed during an investigation."Her specific skill set could help them uncover another clue to the elusive Gold Star mystery," the tease from Paramount+ continues.As reported, Huffman was to return in a spinoff of ABC s The Good Doctor, but the pil
SolStock/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Four years since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, new data shows how severely the pandemic impacted young people s mental health, particularly girls.During the pandemic, there was an increase in severe emergency room psychiatric visits for children and teens, including for conditions like bipolar disorder, substance abuse disorders, and schizophrenia, according to research published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.In addition, mental health-related emergency room visits increased "beyond expected rates" for girls near the end of the pandemic, from 2021 to 2022, according to the research."We observed a unique vulnerability for girls during the pandemic, which indicates that girls mental health requires more attention," the study s lead author, Jennifer Hoffmann, MD, MS, emergency medicine physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s Hospital of Chicago, said in a statement.The newly published data, which looked