I want to go to beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. India.Arie, Beautiful.
PEORIA On an otherwise unremarkable day, 17-year-old A saiah Allen cooked breakfast for her household, chatted with relatives and watched TV with her mom.
Then she went into her bedroom, locked the door and quietly killed herself.
Weeks later, while trying to weave funeral plans amid the aching press of sorrow, Jennifer Raines ponders the abrupt death of her daughter. The loss seems especially shocking after A’saiah had fought for years to survive childhood leukemia.
“I don’t know what my baby was thinking that day,” Raines, 43, says quietly between sobs. “Things were normal.”
Propping up dying industry will leave miners in the cold
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If Joel Fitzgibbon really cares about the people who work directly in the coal industry, he would be pushing for the federal government to begin planning so that coal workers do not find themselves out of work in the years ahead (Letters, February 19). Germany has completely closed its coal operations in the Ruhr Valley which once employed 30,000 workers: with not one job lost. It took vision, planning, crack execution and political courage. Yes, we do export lots of coal, but international markets are shrinking as the world transitions to renewables, a trend that is speeding up and will result in job losses in the Australian coal industry. A global trend. Out of our control. An inevitability. So whose interest is Joel Fitzgibbon really protecting? Not the coal work
Texas: Viajan hasta 13 horas en busca de una vacuna contra covid-19 dallasnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dallasnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘If you’re willing to go further, it’s available’: Texans travel hours for COVID-19 vaccine
While a majority of Dallas County residents received the shot locally, 1 in 5 left the county in the search for coronavirus shots.
Alan Samuels, 59, of Dallas holds the COVID-19 vaccination card he received after getting his first shot by traveling to Austin from Dallas and waiting an hour to receive it.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
AUSTIN One Dallas man rented a car and drove 13 hours round trip to Amarillo to get the COVID-19 vaccine. A Dallas couple signed up at multiple providers across Texas before securing an appointment in a city of 6,000 near Waco. One Dallas woman’s son scheduled a shot for her in San Antonio while she was on a waitlist at a vaccination site closer to home.