Today marks the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Signed into law on August 6, 1965, it outlawed literacy tests, poll taxes in federal elections, and other obstacles to voting. The Act led to dramatic increases in Black voter registration.
🚨 Neighbor, 73, shoots mom and her 17-year-old daughter in the head over a noise complaint — then kills himself.
Jessica Lashly, 38, and her daughter Jersey Greer were outside their House Springs, Missouri home when Robert Winkelman walked over angry about “activities at the residence.”
He shot Jessica in the head after she made a comment that angered him.
Jersey ran to help her mother and was shot in the head too.
Winkelman later shot himself when police arrived.
All three are now dead.
A teenage girl’s last act was trying to save her mom.
A neighbor turned a noise complaint into a double murder.
Federal health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak linked to jalapeño peppers sourced from Mexico.
The CDC says at least 345 people across 27 states have gotten sick since mid-June — most of them in Minnesota and Colorado.
Investigators say a company called "Coast Citrus Distributors" supplied the peppers to the Mexican food chains Chipotle and Qdoba.
Both restaurants say they've stopped serving them, and the CDC says neither establishment poses a risk to consumers.
Meanwhile, the agency is investigating a separate salmonella outbreak — this one tied to eggs from Texas.
The CDC says nearly 100 people have fallen ill across at least 17 states. And more than 1.5 million cartons have been recalled.
People always ask how our family got into the grocery business.
Truth is… we never really did.
We were born into it.
Some kids grew up around construction sites.
Some grew up around law offices.
We grew up around food buyers, farms, grocery distributors, WIC centers, warehouses and pharmaceutical sales meetings.
Our dad spent years at Abbott Laboratories, eventually becoming a Regional Sales Director during a period when Abbott was rapidly expanding its nutrition business. In the late 1980s he helped sell products like Pedialyte and Ensure as Abbott continued growing its consumer nutrition division. We grew up hearing conversations about sales meetings, territories, retailers, distributors, hospitals and building relationships. Back then we didn’t realize those conversations were giving us a business education.
Our mom built her own career at Abbott too. She started as a microbiologist before becoming a program director. Science, food safety, quality and discipline weren’t just things she did at work. They were part of our dinner table conversations.
Business wasn’t something our parents turned on Monday morning and turned off Friday night.
It was simply how they lived.
When our dad left corporate America to build his own company, there weren’t venture capital firms writing checks.
There wasn’t Shark Tank.
There weren’t LinkedIn influencers telling everyone to “just bet on yourself.”
There was a mortgage.
Two kids.
Bills.
And a dream that probably looked irresponsible to a lot of people.
We watched him drive thousands of miles meeting growers, suppliers and customers one handshake at a time.
We watched our mom keep stability in our home while believing in an idea that had absolutely no guarantee of working.
Most people see Goode Foods today and assume it started with grocery stores.
It didn’t.
It started with government nutrition programs, warehouses, phone calls, sample cases in the trunk and thousands of conversations almost nobody will ever see.
Looking back, we realize we weren’t just growing up.
We were sitting in the front row of an MBA that no university could teach.
We didn’t know those long car rides, warehouse visits and conversations around our kitchen table would someday become our career.
We didn’t choose this industry.
This industry raised us.
And every day we’re grateful for the opportunity to carry forward what our parents spent decades building.
Exactly 61 years from the signing of the Voting Rights Act, we won our primary despite a redistricting blow that cracked Memphis’s representation in Congress, attacks on our community from
Elon Musk and his toxic data centers, & attempts to divide us.
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The Hinds County Coroner’s Office identified 29-year-old Tasia Fortune as the woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Jackson, Mississippi on Aug. 3. https://t.co/MnMyX9baFB
🚨 Special Judge Susan Worthington and Judge Michael Kulling let Jesse Butler walk free after he brutally raped and strangled two girls.
One of the victims needed neck surgery.
Butler faced up to 78 years.
Instead, he got a rehabilitation plan and walked free without serving a single day in prison.
The case was dismissed.
Oklahoma …. You have a problem. Remove these Judges
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
—Harriet Tubman
A group of females went to the Capitol and brought pictures of all the people that have lost their lives by the hands of ICE. They were immediately put in handcuffs and arrested even though they were there being peaceful exercising their second amendment right to free speech.
Striking someone because you lack a fully developed prefrontal cortex and then playing the victim is nasty business. Those two handled themselves very well versus the pack mentality demonstrated by the mob that came to her defense.
Elvis Brooks was finally exonerated after spending 42 years in prison.
But the Louisiana Attorney General maintains that he is still guilty and should not receive the $480,000 he's eligible for as compensation from the state. https://t.co/Ua8KlYw7Gq