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Betesha Ethridge - #BankWithBea Hello friends! Happy New Year!! It’s the beginning of the year and many of us have already created our vision boards and know exactly what we want to accomplish in 2022. Maybe you will buy your dream house this year, or that car you’ve saved up for. Others may be wanted to start a retirement plan, start investing, create a budget, pay off credit card debt,

Another small earthquake has rattled the Midlands region of South Carolina, continuing a string of seismic activity that began late last month in the area near the capital. News outlets reported that a magnitude 1.3 quake occurred late Tuesday in Richland County almost 6 miles (9.66 kilometers) southeast of Elgin, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement. No injuries or damage was reported from the shake, which was considered

The legal fight over North Carolina’s redistricting plans shifted quickly to the state Supreme Court the day after trial judges refused to throw out the new maps. By Wednesday, nearly half of the justices had been asked by lawyers to stay out of upcoming deliberations because of alleged conflicts. Plaintiffs in the case filed appeal notices with the state’s highest court almost immediately after Tuesday’s ruling by a three-judge panel that allowed

 A northwest Louisiana city has begun taking applications for a one-year program offering $660 a month to 110 unwed parents with low incomes.  It’s among many such projects nationwide to give people a guaranteed income and track the results. “An estimated 25% of the citizens in Shreveport are living in poverty and a guaranteed income would empower recipients to address their most urgent day-to-day needs and unpredictable expenses,” Mayor Adrian Perkins said

By DAVID PORTER, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and MICHELLE L. PRICE A faulty space heater on a chilly Sunday morning sparked a fire that filled a high-rise Bronx apartment building with thick smoke, killing 19 people including nine children. It was New York City’s deadliest fire in three decades. Trapped residents broke windows for air and stuffed wet towels under doors as smoke rose from a lower-floor apartment where the fire

Ahmaud Arbery's father Marcus Arbery, center, sits in the courtroom with other family members during the sentencing of Greg McMichael, his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan in the Glynn County Courthouse, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Brunswick, Ga. The three found guilty in the February 2020 slaying of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, Pool) Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery were

By HILLEL ITALIE FILE - Actor Sidney Poitier poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif. on June 2, 2008. Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 in the Bahamas. He was 94.

Side by side at ground zero on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a Republican governor read from the Gettysburg Address and a Democratic governor read from the Declaration of Independence as Americans everywhere mourned and remembered as one people. On Thursday, in contrast, the anniversary of the assault on the U.S. Capitol exposed a nation of two peoples. Democrats, led by one angry president standing in the

By COREY WILLIAMS Parent Latonya Peterson sums up her frustration over Detroit schools returning — at least temporarily — to virtual learning in three short words: “I hate it.” Facing a surge in COVID-19 cases, the Detroit district this week joined a growing number of others in moving classes online after the winter break. The shift involving 50,000 students once again leaves parents juggling home and work schedules around the

By DASHA LITVINOVA A man takes a photo of windows of a police kiosk damaged by demonstrators during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Demonstrators denouncing the doubling of prices for liquefied gas have clashed with police in Kazakhstan's largest city and held protests in about a dozen other cities in the country. (AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov) The President of Kazakhstan said Friday he authorized law enforcement to