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Florida girl who survived crash that killed parents and grandparents makes strides toward recovery

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:10 GMT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WSVN) — A teenage girl who suffered horrific injuries in a tragic bus crash, both throughout her body and her brain, is making great strides toward recovery at a Florida hospitalJasmin Cervantes-Garcia has been able to take her first steps and much more, a year after she lost her parents and grandparents.Loved ones said the last 12 months have been hard for the 13-year-old.Last June, Cervantes-Garcia was vacationing with her family in Mexico when, her brother Cruz Cervantes said, a charter bus struck the family’s pickup truck head-on, leaving her as the sole survivor.“Just the fact that she was able to hang in there, as bad as the accident was, that in itself is a miracle,” said Cervantes.Cervantes-Garcia suffered injuries throughout her body, including severe brain injuries. For months, she has been undergoing speech and physical therapy at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg.Just weeks ago, she was able to tak...

Aaron Judge, Nestor Cortes provide injury updates, varying levels of optimism

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:10 GMT

LOS ANGELES — When Aaron Judge approached his locker following the Yankees’ Sunday night win over the Dodgers, he did so without a hitch or a limp.The slugger missed Sunday’s game after banging his right big toe while making a sensational Saturday catch, but he spoke to reporters anyway. As Judge did so, he stood tall in slide sandals and socks. If there was any extra protection or padding under his right sock, it was not apparent.Judge said that not playing on Sunday was “precautionary.” Still, he seemed resigned to the possibility of landing on the injured list.“I really don’t care at this point,” said a player who almost always insists he’s fine, even when he’s not. “If I’m on it, I’m on it. I’m trying not to be, but I got no answer yet. I’m hoping today and tomorrow, having a little bit of rest, it’ll be good to go hopefully on Tuesday. We’ll take it day-to-day right now.”...

Commentary: Biden administration abusing immigration ‘parole’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:10 GMT

\”Monopoly money” is a term for useless paper notes. Inflation was so bad in 1930s Weimar Germany, it took literal wheelbarrows of cash to buy groceries. In Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, inflation at one point reached 79,600,000,000% per month; the price of your meal would change during dinner.Today, Zimbabwe’s 10 trillion dollar note is available on eBay for $69.99. But there’s one piece of paper that’s worth even less: the affidavit of support used in U.S. immigration.To bring foreign relatives over permanently, American citizens must file immigrant visa petitions for them. An affidavit of support is required as part of the application process. Something similar is now being used for the fictitious “lawful pathways” the Biden administration has invented.President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has been abusing a limited immigration power called “parole” to bypass the legal system, bringing in tens of thousands of foreigners a month. If this sounds sketchy, it ...

Yankees beat Dodgers with help from small ball and German before Volpe’s homer; Judge, Cortes may miss more time

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:10 GMT

LOS ANGELES — Anthony Volpe’s two-run homer in the ninth put a dagger in the Dodgers, but the Yankees also needed some small ball to win Sunday’s rubber match, 4-1.The first run of the game would not have been possible without a well-placed Isiah Kiner-Falefa bunt and an inexplicable, off-balance throw from Dodgers reliever Brusdar Graterol, who fired to an uncovered first base. The ill-advised decision gave the Yankees runners on second and third with one out in the seventh, and Jake Bauers proceeded to score on a broken bat groundout from Kyle Higashioka.J.D. Martinez answered back with a solo home run off Domingo German in the bottom of the seventh, but the Yankees responded in the eighth with a walk from Anthony Rizzo and a double from Giancarlo Stanton. The recently demoted and promoted Oswaldo Cabrera then brought the game-winning run home with a soft groundball to the first base side of the mound.“Good job by the base runners there and good job not hit...

A sister vanishes, a brother seeks truth in ‘Burden of Proof’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:10 GMT

What could be worse when your 15-year-old sister disappears than never knowing what happened and who was responsible?That was the impetus behind Stephen Pandos to make “Burden of Proof,” HBO’s four-part documentary that streams Tuesday on MAX.It was February 1987 when Stephen’s only sibling Jennifer disappeared in the middle of the night. His parents waited two days before notifying the police, who were stymied. The case remained inert for over 20 years until Stephen became obsessed with this mystery.“It started for me in 2009, seven years before the filming started, when the police suggested that my parents were responsible for my sister’s disappearance,” Pandos, 55, said last week in a phone interview. “Because I don’t have any other siblings, at that point I felt justice for my sister became my responsibility. For me, doing nothing” was not an option.His parents had divorced. Stephen was convinced his father, a Vietnam vet with PTSD given to explosive rages, had kille...

5 signs that you have a boring resume

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:10 GMT

Résumés are fairly cut-and-dry documents. Following the traditional “template” helps you convey your background and essential skills in a way that’s easily grasped by a hiring manager. But coloring inside the lines too closely could result in a resume that’s a yawner.“I read résumés and cover letters daily and there are usually a couple handfuls of those that are unique and different and pull me in, making me want to interview this person,” says Cheryl Hyatt, cofounder of Hyatt-Fennell Executive Search.While what makes a résumé interesting may be subjective, here are five signs that your résumé is lackluster:It’s Missing NumbersA résumé usually regurgitates the responsibilities you had in your position, but it shouldn’t be just a bunch of words. A vice president, for example, would list that they oversee a team, but that’s boring, says Hyatt.Numbers help underscore accomplishments and demonstrate that you understand your role and your job. For example, “I increased productivity in m...

Editorial: Not perfect, but a start on immigration reform

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:10 GMT

As the debt ceiling showdown moved toward the critical stages, a bipartisan House group offered a path forward on another controversial issue: immigration.A handful of Democrats and Republicans in the lower chamber announced they would introduce the Dignity Act, which The Washington Post described as “the most robust immigration proposal to date this Congress.”Notably, the six main co-sponsors — three Republican, three Democrat — are Hispanic members of Congress who represent border states. The primary authors are Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., and Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas.“We’re not each pursuing the perfect as we see it,” Rep. Salazar said. “We are pursuing a compromise that is real, that is common sense.”As such, the legislation has something for everyone to hate. It includes beefed-up border security, anathema to progressives, and a pathway to legal status for those in the country illegally, a thorn for conservative border hawks.Under the proposal, Congress would add m...

McCaughey: Democrats abandon working class, now pro-freeloader

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:10 GMT

The Democratic Party, long known as the party for working people, is now for freeloaders. Democrats want taxpayers to support people who refuse to get off the couch and get a job.That’s the major reason Democrats and Republicans in Washington were locked in a stalemate for weeks over hiking the debt ceiling. The biggest sticking point was whether people should be allowed to collect government assistance indefinitely to finance their nonworking lifestyle.For everyone who toils for a living, the idea of paying taxes to support healthy people who won’t work feels like a slap in the face.House Republicans proposed requiring food stamp recipients and people on Medicaid to work 20 hours a week or participate in some job-readiness activity such as training, high school equivalency courses or substance abuse treatment. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy explained that government assistance programs are supposed to be “temporary, not permanent” and “a bridge to indepe...

Dear Abby: Money’s tight, should I ask for child support?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:10 GMT

Dear Abby: I have a child with a woman I’ll call “Kara,” who is now my ex-wife. Our son lives full time with me and my new wife, whom I married three years ago. Kara was diagnosed with schizophrenia five or six years ago, which is what ultimately led to our divorce. She has only recently been able to keep a job despite her condition, which is only being moderately well-managed, but she has a pretty good one now.Kara spends almost all her money on herself and rarely spends a day with our son without me present. I’m considering asking the court for child support payments, but I worry that because of her mental health issues, she’ll end up taking it out on our child.She’s never been a very good parent, largely because of her illness, and she lived with us for almost a year because I didn’t have the heart to see her homeless. I don’t make a lot of money myself. I’ve been disabled for quite some time, and the extra income would make a...

What to know about the legislative inquiry into Ronald Greene’s deadly arrest

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:10 GMT

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers who last year demanded Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards testify about whether he was complicit in a cover-up over state troopers’ deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene have quietly abandoned their work without hearing from the governor or issuing any findings.Here’s what you need to know:WHAT HAPPENED TO RONALD GREENE?Greene’s May 10, 2019, death at the end of a high-speed chase in rural northeast Louisiana was shrouded in secrecy from the beginning, when state police troopers told grieving relatives and put in initial reports that the 49-year-old died in a car crash — an account questioned by both his family and an emergency room doctor. But it would take 464 days before the Louisiana State Police opened an internal probe, and officials from Edwards on down refused for more than two years to release the troopers’ body-camera video.That all changed in May 2021 when The Associated Press obtained and published the footage that sh...