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Morristown Minute

Automatic Recovery Rate Reduced to 10 Percent, Enhancing Financial Security for Beneficiaries. The Social Security Administration (SSA) has taken a significant step towards enhancing the fairness and equity of its overpayment policies by announcing a reduction in the default withholding rate for Social Security beneficiaries.

Social Security Eliminates Overpayment Burden for Beneficiaries

Colorado State

Kansas City, MO

CJ Coombs

Twenty-two years ago, Robert Ray Courtney (Inmate Register #14636-045) was convicted of diluting chemotherapy drugs for more than 4,000 patients. It's been recently reported he will be released from prison this summer to a halfway house. Victims and families of victims are most likely disappointed and furious and understandably so.

The former Kansas City pharmacist who diluted chemotherapy drugs is set to be released in June 2024

Georgia State

Blackshear, GA

Daily Coffee Press

A South Georgia attorney was arrested last week after allegedly initiating a physical fight and committing battery against another attorney, according to a Pierce County Sheriff’s Office incident report. This isn’t the first time the attorney, John Thigpen Jr., has been taken to jail for a physical dispute at a courthouse, with a similar occurrence happened in 2017.

South Georgia Attorney Arrested for Allegedly Initiating Physical Altercation at Courthouse

Texas State

Houston, TX

Lance R. Fletcher

A Texas teacher and her husband are now in custody, accused of taking thousands of dollars from home renovation clients and gambling away money they took for work they never finished.

Texas teacher and husband arrested, accused of gambling away $1.53 million in home renovation scam

Idaho State

Jackson, WY

WyoFile

JACKSON HOLE—National Elk Refuge staffer Frank Durbian spent Thursday morning watching members of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribes hold a ceremony, then take down three bull bison on ancestral northwest Wyoming lands their forebears once occupied.

Tribal bison hunt expands on National Elk Refuge to include Eastern Shoshone

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

A Jacksonville man has been sentenced to 60 months in prison for accosting two Black women with a gun in separate hate crimes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says. Frederick Pierallini III, 27, pleaded guilty July 6. He also faces three years of supervised release, prosecutors say.

Jacksonville man sentenced for hate crimes on Black women

Food Excluded from Supplemental Security Income Calculations to Improve Equity and Efficiency. The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced an update to the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) regulations, marking a significant shift in how In-Kind Support and Maintenance (ISM) calculations are determined.

Social Security Administration Simplifies SSI with Major Rule Change on Food Assistance

Denver, CO

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David Heitz

An immigrant from south of the border told the Denver City Council Monday that newcomers staying in city shelters are treated like “animals.”. Willy Bastidas addressed the council during the public comment period. Members of the dais to not respond to comments in order to give more people time to speak during the 30-minute session.

Migrants treated like ‘animals’ at Denver shelters, newcomer tells council

New Jersey State

Wildwood, NJ

Christopher Lotito

Former Wildwood Mayor Peter J. Byron faces new legal troubles as a state grand jury has returned a seven-count indictment against him, accusing him of abusing his official position and failing to pay state taxes on earnings from a job obtained through his mayoral influence.

Democrat Mayor of Wildwood, Vocal Trump Critic, Has Been Indicted for Corruption

Baltimore, MD

Bucks County Beacon

Written by Thomas F. Schaller , University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Rural white voters have long enjoyed outsize power in American politics. They have inflated voting power in the U.S. Senate , the U.S. House and the Electoral College .

Why ‘White Rural Rage’ Is a Threat to American Democracy

The Denver City Council learned more Wednesday about the workforce development component of the Denver Asylum Seekers Program. The city has transitioned the way it helps migrants, closing shelters and instead placing 800 people in the asylum program. That includes people who had been staying in non-congregate hotel shelters, all but one of which have closed. New migrant arrivals will not be eligible for the six-month work program until some graduate, according to a presentation by city staff. The city intends to keep 500 people in the work program at a time, according to Tony Anderson, workforce development manager for the city.

Denver aims to place migrants in minimum $20 per hour jobs

Atlantic City, NJ

NEW JERSEY – Luquay Zahir, a 49-year-old Atlantic City resident and former coordinator for a local housing authority program, was arrested today under charges of fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief funds, as announced by U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.

NJ Housing Coordinator Arrested for COVID-19 Relief Fraud

Harvard, MA

The Harvard Crimson 

By Tilly R. Robinson and Neil H. Shah, Crimson Staff Writers. Harvard Sociology assistant professor Christina J. Cross was accused of plagiarism in an anonymous complaint to Harvard’s Office of Research Integrity, conservative activist Christopher F. Rufo reported in the City Journal — the fourth Black woman at Harvard who studies race or social justice to be accused of plagiarism.

Fourth Black Female Harvard Scholar Accused of Plagiarism Amid Assault on DEI Initiatives

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Two Katy ISD trustees who voted against transgender policy face opponents in re-election campaign

Trustees Rebecca Fox and Dawn Champagne voted against a policy that would require teachers to notify parents whose kids came out as transgender. While the policy...

Two Katy ISD trustees who voted against transgender policy face opponents in re-election campaign

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