Tag: family
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California county settles with family of killed inmate for $3.6 million
A county in the San Francisco Bay area has reached a $3.6 million settlement with the family of a mentally ill inmate who authorities said was beaten to death by jail guards last year, attorneys and county officials said on Friday. The $3.625 million will go to the young daughter, two sisters and estate of…
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Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly dead at 92
By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Phyllis Schlafly, who became a “founding mother” of the modern U.S. conservative movement by battling feminists in the 1970s and working tirelessly to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment, died on Monday at the age of 92, her Eagle Forum group said. Schlafly, who lived in the St. Louis suburb…
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World will miss education-for-all target by 50 years: U.N.
By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The world is set to miss by more than half a century a deadline for ensuring all children receive secondary education, the United Nations said on Tuesday, adding that 40 percent of pupils are being taught in a language that is not their mother tongue. World leaders…
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Hospice teams may be overlooking teenaged family members
By Randi Belisomo (Reuters Health) – Teens with dying parents don’t benefit as much from hospice services as older members of the family do, a new study suggests. Most of the surveyed adolescents with a parent in hospice had zero or limited contact with staff, researchers reported in the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.…
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Venezuelans cross reopened border to Colombia for food, medicine
By Anggy Polanco SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela (Reuters) – Thousands of Venezuelans were welcomed to Colombia by a military band early on Saturday morning as the two countries' borders were officially reopened after being closed by Venezuela a year ago. Some people had traveled across Venezuela to queue overnight hoping to cross to buy food and…
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IOC disappointed with Solo’s ‘cowards’ comments
By Karolos Grohmann RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is disappointed that United States goalkeeper Hope Solo branded opponents Sweden as cowards after they knocked her team out of the women's soccer tournament, but will not take any disciplinary action. The best team did not win today.” Solo is no stranger…