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☆ A Crusade to Help the Homeless, One Old Bike at a Time
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | Photographs Tara Weston For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

RAPID CITY, S.D.—Jose Hernandez set off to work one evening in January, wobbling on a refurbished bike with a deflated tire, a bag with his valuables strapped across his back. He was headed to Burger King, where he works as a cook for about $15 an hour, often on the 5 p.m.-to-midnight shift. It is a five-minute drive from the homeless shelter where he lives. But Hernandez, 45, doesn’t have a car. So he bikes—on wheels given to him by Roberta Harmon , a street minister recognizable by her white heart-shaped glasses and fiery red hair who fixes up old bicycles for homeless people who need them to get to jobs.

Persons: — Jose Hernandez, Hernandez, Roberta Harmon Locations: wobbling, Burger

☆ Cyberattack on Kansas Courts Leaves Lawyers Filing ‘Everything by Fax’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Kansas’ online court system was disconnected after a ‘sophisticated foreign’ attack. Photo: John Hanna/Associated PressKansas attorney Kayla Clark can typically file legal documents online. She can see when a judge signed them. But she has been locked out of this digital world for more than a month, one of numerous lawyers and litigants forced to go analog in the wake of an October cyberattack that has crippled Kansas’ court system and made it mostly impossible to pay fines, file for divorces or complete other legal tasks online.

Persons: John Hanna, Kayla Clark Organizations: Kansas, Associated Press Locations: Associated Press Kansas, Kansas

☆ Your Ambulance Is on the Way. ETA: 65 Minutes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

At least 4.5 million people nationwide live in an ambulance desert, where they are farther than a 25-minute drive from an ambulance station. Photo: Shannon Najmabadi/The Wall Street JournalMERRIMAN, Neb.—Call 911 in this northwest Nebraska town, and the ambulance responding will likely be coming from South Dakota. If that crew isn’t available, the ambulance might drive from Valentine, Neb., 60 miles and a different time zone away. Or from Gordon, where the all-volunteer staff includes employees of a grocery store, bank, veterinary office and farmer’s co-op.

Persons: Shannon Najmabadi, Street Journal MERRIMAN, Neb, Valentine, farmer’s Organizations: Street Journal Locations: Nebraska, South Dakota, Gordon

☆ Drought Leaves Midwest Towns ‘Drier Than the Dust Bowl’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

As the nation’s pipes and treatment plants age, water-main breaks and boil-water advisories are becoming increasingly common. WSJ explains how decades of disinvestment brought the country’s water infrastructure to a tipping point. Photo illustration: Ryan TrefesTowns in Mid-America are facing water shortages as they grapple with a multiyear drought. The southeast Kansas city of Caney will run out of water by March 1 without rain, officials said. Four wells in Belle Plaine, Iowa, are producing 40% as much water as usual.

Persons: disinvestment, Ryan Organizations: Ryan Trefes Towns Locations: Ryan Trefes, Mid, America, Kansas, Caney, Belle Plaine , Iowa, Osceola, Des Moines

Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit have asked a judge to order changes in how the home-sale industry operates. Photo: Rich Pedroncelli/Associated PressKANSAS CITY, Mo.—A federal jury on Tuesday found the National Association of Realtors and large residential brokerages liable for about $1.8 billion in damages after determining they conspired to keep commissions for home sales artificially high. The verdict could lead to industrywide upheaval by changing decades-old rules that have helped lock in commission rates even as home prices have skyrocketed—which has allowed real-estate agents to collect ever-larger sums. It comes in the first of two antitrust lawsuits arguing that unlawful industry practices have left consumers unable to lower their costs even though internet-era innovations have allowed many buyers to find homes themselves online.

Persons: Rich Pedroncelli, — Organizations: Associated Press KANSAS CITY, National Association of Realtors Locations: Mo

Persons: Rich Pedroncelli, — Organizations: Associated Press KANSAS CITY, National Association of Realtors Locations: Mo

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☆ Why More Baby Boomers Are Sliding Into Homelessness
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Why More Baby Boomers Are Sliding Into Homelessness The aging of America means more old people on fixed incomes are overwhelmed by the high cost of housing and other financial shocks; ‘not seen since the Great Depression’Judy Schroeder became homeless after she couldn’t afford her rent on her Social Security income. She stayed at a friend’s house in Naples, above, until Hurricane Ian flooded the property. Bryan Cereijo for The Wall Street Journal

Persons: ‘, Judy Schroeder, couldn’t, Hurricane Ian, Bryan Cereijo Organizations: Social, Wall Street Locations: Naples, Hurricane

☆ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Impeachment Trial Starts
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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With 115 people confirmed deceased, the wildfire that destroyed Lahaina is already the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century. But the difficult process of identifying and transporting human remains in an all-but-incinerated town means there might never be answers about many of the hundreds of people who are still unaccounted for.

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☆ Authorities to Return Materials Seized From Kansas Newspaper
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Missouri Supreme Court Upholds Law That Allows Jailing Parents of Truant Children
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ More Americans Are Ending Up Homeless—at a Record Rate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Jon Kamp | Shannon Najmabadi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Raid on Small Kansas Paper Swept Up Information on Police Chief
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Police Raid Small Kansas Paper, Seizing Phones, Computers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Mississippi River Careens From Floods to Low Water, Threatening Barge Traffic
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Farms With Thousands of Hogs Are Often a Nightmare for Neighbors
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | Photographs Kc Mcginnis For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Hogs outnumber residents by about 7 to 1 in Iowa, the top pork producer in the nation. Hog farms and pork processors directly employed 36,070 workers here in 2021, according to the National Pork Producers Council. A typical hog farm in southeast Iowa is capable of producing enough feces and urine to fill one-and-a-half Olympic-size swimming pools a year. The manure breaks down in pits, emitting ammonia, methane and other noxious gases before it's used as fertilizer. Pig carcasses are composted in sawdust at Valley View Swine.

Organizations: National Pork Producers Council Locations: Iowa

☆ Four Bodies Recovered After Fatal Alaska Helicopter Crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Harvesting Crews Hustle to Bring in Wheat Crop Hit by Drought, Late Rains
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | Photographs Doug Barrett For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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