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Oakland attributes a 6-decade low in homicides, in part, to life coaches
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Young men at risk of succumbing to gang violence slump over tables in an Oakland church. With them are prosecutors, clergy and survivors of shootings determined to show them they have more to look forward to than incarceration, injury or death.
The message is not one of punishment but of unceasing su ... (full story)
Exonerees struggle to rebuild their lives and gain lasting employment, even if elected to office
HOUSTON (AP) — Richard Miles set out to find a job after his release from a Texas prison in 2009 with a collection of newspaper clippings about his wrongful murder conviction as his resume. No one would hire him, including warehouses and fast-food restaurants.
It was a period of painful rejection that is familiar to exoner ... (full story)
EPA, conservation groups: Wyoming’s ‘impaired’ water protocols run afoul of the Clean Water Act
Federal environmental regulators and water quality advocates want the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality to rectify a policy restricting who can submit water samples used to decide whether waters are too polluted and below Clean Water Act standards.
Currently, Wyoming only accepts water samples collected by the state an ... (full story)
Most sunscreens harm corals. Here's what you can do
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Every time you go for a swim, some of your sunscreen gets left behind.
An estimated 25% of applied sunscreen washes off during recreational water activities, releasing some 5,000 tons annually in reef areas alone, according to a study in Environmental Health Perspectives. That’s equivalent to the weight of about 1,000 elep ... (full story)
Southern Poverty Law Center says its informant program was not kept secret from law enforcement
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center told a federal court on April 28 that law enforcement agencies have long known that the nonprofit paid informants to report on the movements of hate groups, rejecting assertions by the Trump administration that the nonprofit steered money to the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist ... (full story)