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Click here to read about how after nearly 60 years, Publishers Clearing House had been known for changing individuals’ lives, fulfilling their dreams with prize money it promised would keep coming for as long as they lived.  But now the company is in bankruptcy, and winners’ dreams have turned into nightmares. ARB Interactive, a mobile gaming company that bought PCH’s remaining assets, said that under the terms of the sales agreement it would not honor payouts for those who won their life-changing prizes before July 15th of this year.  Click here for the full story.  

In an effort to scrub national parks of “corrosive ideology,” the Trump administration has ordered the removal of information on slavery, according to the Washington Post. That includes “The Scourged Back,” a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back from the National Gallery of Art.  Click here for the video of this story.  

The US government on Thursday sued Uber Technologies, accusing the ride-sharing company of discriminating against passengers with disabilities.  In a complaint filed in San Francisco federal court, the US Department of Justice said Uber drivers routinely refuse to serve people with disabilities, including riders who travel with service animals or stowable wheelchairs.  The department also said Uber and its drivers impose impermissible surcharges by charging cleaning fees for service animals and cancellation fees to riders who are denied service.  Click here for the full story.  

The store workers at a tiny roadside gas station in rural Texas were stunned after learning they sold one of two winning tickets for the massive $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot over the weekend.  The lucky ticket was sold at Bigs Gas Station off US Highway 290 in Fredericksburg, a rural city in the central part of the Lone Star State, 75 miles west of Austin, according to the Texas Lottery.  Click here for more on this story.

As we all know, torrential rains triggered flash flooding in central Texas on July 4th, killing more than 100 people, including dozens of children who were at summer camps along the Guadalupe River. The river rose more than 20 feet in less than two hours. People are still missing.  As search and rescue continues, charities are on the ground providing aid. You can help by clicking HERE or using the form below.  The need is still great and so is the caring.  Your help is still needed.

Hundreds of undocumented immigrants were apprehended during a sweeping immigration raid at a Georgia manufacturing facility Thursday, marking what appears to be one of the largest ICE raids at a single site in the 22-year history of the agency.  About 450 people were apprehended as several law enforcement agencies descended on the Hyundai Metaplant site in Ellabel, Georgia.  Click here for more on this story.  

Click here to read about how the Trump administration said Thursday it is abandoning a Biden-era plan that sought to require airlines to compensate stranded passengers with cash, lodging and meals for flight cancellations or changes caused by a carrier. 

An 11-year-old Texas boy has died after being shot in the back when he allegedly attempted a door-knocking prank on a neighbor, police said.  The shooting unfolded around 10:55 p.m. on Saturday at a home in southeast Houston, Shay Awosiyan, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department, told ABC News.  The child, who police initially said was 10 years old, was pronounced dead at a hospital on Sunday, according to a statement released by police. The boy's name was being withheld by police pending an autopsy.  Click here for the full story.  

Click here to see a video of  showing the moment an US Army football player and his father grabbed a man out of a crashed vehicle and carried him to safety.  

Hundreds of millions of 911 calls pour into the country’s roughly 6,000 dispatch centers each year. Without national mandates for an industry straining under that reliance, the speed, efficiency and care that calls are handled with vary from each city and county.   How does funding affect efficiency in one case examined?  What about locally?