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STEM: Building Prosthetics Expands Native Students’ Vision

YAKIMA, Wash. — In a building just outside the main Yakama Nation Tribal School, its MESA prosthetics team has turned a classroom into a workshop. A 3-D printer hides behind a poster board. A clay oven is covered just outside the room. And there are tools everywhere. Here, one can tell students have been at […]

U.S. Threatens to Cut Off Funds at South Dakota Hospital

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.— The U.S. government on May 23 threatened to cut off Medicare and Medicaid funding to a government-run hospital in Rapid City — the third South Dakota hospital serving Native Americans that’s been found to have serious deficiencies in recent months. Inspectors with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers the […]

Checkmate! Chess Expands Options for Children in Ferguson, Missouri

ST. LOUIS — Ten-year-old Tyson Stegall stared intently at the chess board as his opponent, grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez, pondered a move. The fourth-grader gave a little grimace, then a smile, when Ramirez finished him off with a checkmate. “He trapped me,” Tyson said. Tyson is among dozens of students from the Ferguson, Missouri, area who […]

Unused Convent Becomes Home for Senior Citizens

METUCHEN, N.J. — Walk the halls of the Senior Residence at St. Peter the Apostle and you can see remnants of the convent that once was. The modest-sized rooms hold only single beds. The round-topped design of some windows hints at the stained glass that once filled their frames. The former chapel transformed quite handily […]

Army Will Pay to Return Children’s Remains to Tribe

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The U.S. Army has promised to pay for moving and re-burying the remains of at least 10 Native American children who died more than a century ago at a government-run boarding school in Pennsylvania. The school’s mission was to strip the students of their traditions and replace them with European culture. […]

White Women’s Life Expectancy Declines, CDC Finds

NEW YORK — Life expectancy for white women has fallen a little, according to a new government report. White women lost about five weeks from their predicted lifespan in 2014, compared to 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. Life expectancy held steady for black women and white men, and increased for […]

Critics Question Medical School’s Invitation to Rachel Dolezal to Discuss Race

OMAHA, Neb. — Omaha residents have raised concerns about a visit from Rachel Dolezal, who resigned as president of an NAACP chapter in Washington last year after it was revealed that she was a white person posing as black. The Omaha World-Herald http://bit.ly/1XL3S4j reported that a decision by a University of Nebraska Medical Center professor, […]

Suicide Rate Rises for Middle-Aged Whites

NEW YORK — Middle-aged white people now account for a third of all suicides in the U.S., a new government report shows. Suicide is the nation’s 10th leading cause of death, and the overall rate rose 24 percent in 15 years, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ Suicides […]

Birth Rates Fall among Black and Hispanic Teens

NEW YORK — Birth rates are falling dramatically for black and Hispanic teenagers, but they continue to be much higher than the birth rate for white teens. The Hispanic teen birth rate fell by half over about eight years, and the black teen birth rate dropped nearly that much. But even with those declines, the […]

Mentally Ill Mother Who Pushed Swing for Hours Grieves for Son

WALDORF, Md. — Wrapped in a black coat, Romechia Simms walks through a cemetery in Southern Maryland on a cold March day, tiptoeing around headstones, making her way to the grave of her 3-year-old son. She’s still grieving for him, still trying to forgive herself for how Ji’Aire Donnell Lee died — on a swing […]

Families’ Suit Alleges Staff Abused Disabled, Called Group Home “Bonx Zoo”

ALBANY, N.Y. — Three families have sued staff at a New York City group home, alleging they punched, kicked and spit on disabled residents and that state authorities knew about the abuse and did nothing for weeks. Staff at the Union Avenue IRA referred to the facility as the “Bronx zoo” and also denied residents […]

South Dakota Indian Health Service to Expand Telehealth Care

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Indian Health Service is looking to expand telehealth care across the Great Plains in the wake of federal inspections that uncovered serious quality-of care deficiencies at some of its facilities. The IHS on Thursday issued a request for proposals from providers to offer remote care at its seven hospitals and […]

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