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☆ Grenada charges prison escapees with murder of American couple missing since alleged yacht hijacking
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Michael Rios | Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Three inmates who escaped from prison in Grenada have been charged with killing two Americans after allegedly hijacking their yacht last month to flee to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, police said Thursday. Hendry and Brandel, based in Virginia, were living out a long-held dream of cruising the Caribbean in their sailing yacht called Simplicity, to Antigua when they went missing, according to their yacht club, the Salty Dawg Sailing Association. Their vessel was found abandoned in neighboring St. Vincent and the Grenadines on February 21, with the husband and wife nowhere to be found, the yacht club said. Authorities in Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines launched joint investigations to track down the suspects who allegedly left behind a violent scene on the missing couple’s yacht, including blood stains. Their alleged killers committed “several criminal acts including bodily harm to the couple” while sailing, the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force said last week.

Persons: Vincent, Ron Mitchell, Atiba, Trevon Robertson, Ralph Hendry, Kathleen Brandel, Stanislaus, Hendry, Don McKenzie, George’s, ‘, Bryan Hendry, Nick Buro, “ Ralph, Kathy, that’s, Ralph, ” Buro, Buro, “, ”, “ Kathy Organizations: CNN, Royal Granada Police Force, Sailing Association, Authorities, Grenadines, Grenadines Police Force Locations: Grenada, St, Grenadines, Brandel, Virginia, Antigua, Royal, United States, Caribbean

☆ When my oldest sister died suddenly, I moved to Houston to help out with my mom's care. I'm glad for this time with her.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Sheryl Nance-Nash | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

When my oldest sister died unexpectedly, my other sisters and I had to rethink my mom's care. I moved to Houston, too, to be closer to Mom and help take care of her. When my oldest sister died unexpectedly and tragically in 2020, the world turned upside down, including the plan for who would take care of our mom. My youngest sister Lorie was still in California, but lived a two-hour drive each way from our mom. My other two sisters and I had a decision to makeMe, Lorie, and our middle sister, Kai, who lives in Houston, did a Zoom and discussed what to do next.

Persons: —, Sharon, Lorie, Kai, that's, Houston, I've Organizations: Service, sis Locations: Houston, California, New York, Jamaica, Stanislaus County, Kai, Texas, United States

☆ Missing American couple: Search for continues after alleged yacht hijacking in Grenada, but a violent scene suggests the worst, family says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Polo Sandoval | Elizabeth Wolfe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Police in the Caribbean are investigating the disappearance of an American couple after escaped inmates in Grenada allegedly hijacked their yacht. The Virginia couple, identified by their sailing club as Kathy Brandel and Ralph Hendry, were living out a long-held dream of cruising the Caribbean in their sailing yacht, Simplicity. “The boat itself was ransacked and everything was strewn about in the entire cabin, so clearly there was an altercation of some type that took place on the boat,” Buro told CNN Sunday. The person also contacted the coast guard, who notified St. Vincent police, the association said. Grenada police said the escapees were recaptured the same day by the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force.

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☆ Retired US couple island-hopping in the Caribbean vanish from their yacht
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

US couple Kathy Brandel and Ralph Hendry disappeared while sailing off the Grenada coast. AdvertisementNick Buro and Bryan Hendry were baffled by the sudden silence from their parents, Kathy Brandel and Ralph Hendry, who had lived on a yacht for over a decade, People reports. The American couple vanished while sailing off the coast of Grenada on February 18. Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel are seasoned sailors who had recently completed a "Caribbean Rally" from Virginia to Antigua, The Washington Post reports. They escaped from a holding cell at South St George Police Station on February 18, 2024, the same day the American couple disappeared.

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☆ Two Americans believed dead after escaped prisoners hijack yacht in Grenada
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Abel Alvarado | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Three escaped prison inmates may have killed two people, believed to be American citizens, on a yacht they are thought to have hijacked as they tried to make their way from Grenada to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, according to Grenada police. Police in the small Caribbean nation said Thursday that preliminary information “suggests” that after escaping, the three escaped male prisoners hijacked a yacht in St. George, Grenada. Police are “currently working on leads that suggest that the two occupants of the yacht may have been killed in the process,” the statement added. “It is believed that the occupants of the yacht were American citizens.”The three suspects are now back in custody after their February 18 escape, police said. CNN has contacted both Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines police for more information related to this case.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An alternative mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders into housing and medical care — potentially without their consent — kicked off in seven California counties, including San Francisco, on Monday. San Francisco officials said in a statement that about 10% of more than 2,500 beds are open for new people. The National Alliance on Mental Illness in California, a grassroots organization supporting people with a mental illness and their families, pushed for the new mental health program. San Francisco, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, Stanislaus, Tuolumne and Glenn counties launched the new program Monday. The rest of the state has until December 2024 to establish mental health courts.

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After being rushed in an ambulance to a hospital, the 15-month-old girl died from a fentanyl overdose. Political Cartoons View All 1148 ImagesIn California, where the Legislature has failed to pass such laws, prosecutors in at least three counties are turning to drunk driving laws to charge parents whose children die from fentanyl overdose. Last month, a Maine woman pleaded guilty to manslaughter after her 14-month-old son’s fentanyl overdose. Prosecutors say the parents, like drunk drivers, knew fentanyl can injure or kill people. The boyfriend and girlfriend were charged with murder after their toddler died of a fentanyl overdose in June 2020.

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Democrat Adam Gray is running against Republican John Duarte in California's 13th Congressional District. The 13th District covers much of Fresno County in the Central Valley, California's agricultural heartland. 2022 General EmbedsCalifornia's 13th Congressional District candidatesDuarte is a farmer and businessman who grows almonds, pistachios, and grapes in his family nursery, Duarte Nursery, located in Stanislaus County. The Central Valley, where California's 13th Congressional District is located, supplies 8% of US agricultural output and produces a fourth of the nation's food. Voting history for California's 13th Congressional DistrictCalifornia's 13th Congressional District encompasses portions of Merced, Madera, and Stanislaus counties and much of Fresno County in the Central Valley, the state's agricultural heartland.

But a shorter and more satisfying narrative would not have been as true to the material, or to Remarque’s pacifism. This "All Quiet on the Western Front” doesn’t have a real plot, per se. For most of the movie, viewers and soldiers alike know that peace is coming at any moment. War is a kind of anti-narrative, which causes a rupture in the satisfying progress of the plot. “All Quiet on the Western Front” is an antiwar movie that refuses to turn war into a tale of progress or success.

☆ State Rep. Adam Gray faces off against Republican John Duarte in California's 13th Congressional District congressional election
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Democrat Adam Gray is running against Republican John Duarte in California's 13th Congressional District. The 13th District covers much of Fresno County in the Central Valley, California's agricultural heartland. California's 13th Congressional District candidatesDuarte is a farmer and businessman who grows almonds, pistachios, and grapes in his family nursery, Duarte Nursery, located in Stanislaus County. The Central Valley, where California's 13th Congressional District is located, supplies 8% of US agricultural output and produces a fourth of the nation's food. Voting history for California's 13th Congressional DistrictCalifornia's 13th Congressional District encompasses portions of Merced, Madera, and Stanislaus counties and much of Fresno County in the Central Valley, the state's agricultural heartland.

☆ Indiana Catholic school teacher's 'kill list' included at least one student, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Mirna Alsharif | Mirna Alsharif Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

An Indiana Catholic school teacher was arrested on Thursday after officials said they found she kept a "kill list" and threatened her students, according to NBC Chicago. Carrasquillo-Torres also told the students about the "kill list," adding that they were at the bottom of the list. Carrasquillo-Torres was escorted to the principal’s office following the student’s report, in which the teacher admitted to making the statements to the student and having a kill list. She did not provide the list to the principal, but did name a specific student on the list, NBC Chicago reported. East Chicago police arrested Carrasquillo-Torres Thursday morning at her home after an emergency detention order was approved, according to NBC Chicago.

☆ Farmaceuticals: Vets face pressures to prescribe
▼ + stars: | 2014-09-15 | by ( Brian Grow | Reuters Graphic | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +29 min

The feed tickets examined represent a fraction of the tens of thousands issued annually to poultry farms run by or for major producers. Some of its feed has contained low levels of one antibiotic, feed tickets show. REUTERS/Randall Hill MODERN BARN: Nearly 20,000 broiler chicks are housed inside a Foster Farms chicken ranch in Stanislaus County, California. As the CDC studied what investigators informally called the “Foster Farms Outbreak,” researchers soon made a troubling discovery. Reuters asked to see Foster Farms’ feed tickets from that period; the company didn’t respond to that request.

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