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Pralines for Provincetown

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By Richard Read 
| The Provincetown Independent
My grandmama was the best cook in our family, and she was particularly gifted at making sweet things. Her pound cake was the stuff of legend. Her divinity and fudge, perfection. But she never made pralines, despite living in Mississippi’s pecan belt. I assumed that she found them fiddly. Then I tried my own hand at divinity and thought, “Pralines can’t be worse than that.” Half an hour later, the scales had fallen from my eyes. Why had I waited so long?
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US-NEWS-RESCUE-OPERATIONS-PAY-LA

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By Richard Read 
| The Daily News (Longview, WA)
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Should irresponsible hikers be forced to pay for their rescue? This sheriff says yes

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By Richard Read 
| Miami Herald
LOS ANGELES - The number of rescues in the wilderness areas around Mount St. Helens keep going up - and the actions of some of those before they call for help have drawn criticism as reckless. One man, 21, kayaked over a waterfall, suffering a spinal injury. A 54-year-old woman glissaded down Mount St. Helens - sliding down a snow-covered slope - and suffered a head injury when she struck a rock. Each of those rescues in May, in a remote, mountainous county, required six-hour efforts.
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A Mixed‐Methods Evaluation of a Peer Group Intervention to Promote Wellbeing in Mental Health Nurses

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By Alannah L. Cooper, Richard Read , Sally Burrows, Janie Brown
| Wiley Online Library
1 Background Mental health nurses (MHNs) face significant stressors in their work that can lead to negative impacts on their psychological wellbeing (Delgado et al. 2021; Foster et al. 2020). Stressors MHNs encounter include challenging behaviours from consumers, exposure to violence, inter-and intra-professional conflict, staffing shortages, poor skill mix, lack of resources and high acuity (Cranage and Foster 2022).
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Linguine to Fall in Love With

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By Richard Read 
| The Provincetown Independent
When I was growing up in Mississippi, it was common for folks to talk about young women in terms of their marriage prospects. Despite any number of role models out there at the time — from Mary Tyler Moore to Bella Abzug — the idea of a “career gal” was downright perplexing for most people in my hometown of Laurel, who were all pretty sure that the only qualification a woman needed to be happy in life was her “M-r-s” degree. Thankfully, most of us have come a long way since then.
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How investigative master Seymour Hersh broke the story of the My Lai massacre | Nieman Storyboard

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By Richard Read 
| Nieman Storyboard
Tagged with investigative journalism My Lai massacre Pulitzer Prizes Seymour Hersh By Richard Read After six days crossing the Soviet Union on the Trans-Siberian railway, I stumbled from the chill of a winter evening into the warmth of The New York Times Moscow bureau. The fragrance of home cooking filled the upstairs office in a rundown building near the Kremlin and Red Square.
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Exploring work‐related stressors experienced by mental health nurses: A qualitative descriptive study

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By Alannah L. Cooper, Megan Best, Richard Read , Janie Brown
| Wiley Online Library
DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
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Less Stella, More Stellar

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By Richard Read 
| The Provincetown Independent
PROVINCETOWN — The Tennessee Williams Theater Festival blasts off next weekend, and this year, things are going to be a little extraterrestrial. Put your tray tables up and your expectations aside as the festival rockets into the author’s relatively obscure science fiction and fantasy catalog. That might scandalize folks who think of Williams as a writer of Southern gothic fare like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Suddenly Last Summer.
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A Voyage Through the Ildarwood

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By Richard Read 
| The Provincetown Independent
J.R.R. Tolkien grew up reading mythology and folk tales, which had a profound effect on the books he wrote as an adult. Fantasy author Neil Gaiman has cited Michael Moorcock’s pulpy swords-and-sorcery Elric series as a major influence on his writing. And Octavia Butler’s Kindred inspired N.K. Jemisin to write novels like her Broken Earth trilogy, which was a multiple Hugo Award-winning series. For Provincetown resident Aaron Pacheco, however, the route to writing fantasy fiction wasn’t so direct.
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Mapp and Lucia and Me

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By Richard Read 
| The Provincetown Independent
At first glance, it’s a postcard-perfect seaside town, brimming with music, theater, and art. Look closer, though, and you’ll see that beneath the quaint village veneer lies a hotbed of intrigue, where colorful residents jockey for position on the town’s stepstool of a social ladder.
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Going All In on Tennessee Williams

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By Richard Read 
| The Provincetown Independent
Tennessee Williams was drawn to the edges of America. Among his favorite places in the world were the port city of New Orleans, on the banks of the Mississippi; Key West, the gateway to the Gulf of Mexico; and Provincetown, the land’s end on the cusp of the Atlantic Ocean. Williams’s work covered the waterfront, too. When he died in 1983 at 71, he left six decades’ worth of stage plays, screenplays, short stories, memoirs, poetry, and essays.
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A las 19 horas Peñarol ante Villa Española por defender la punta del Clausura

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By Richard Read 
| grupormultimedio.com
Este sábado 19 horas se jugará el primer y único encuentro de la octava fecha. Villa Española y Peñarol en el Parque Viera resulta un partido cuando menos cómodo para Peñarol, pues mientras los “aurinegros” se encuentran en la cima de la tabla, el equipo “villero” está en la cima tanto del Clausura como de la Anual.
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Oregon ran a lean health care system. The latest COVID surge is taking it to the brink

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By Richard Read 
| The Seattle Times
For decades, Oregon’s health system was envied across the nation. Managed care organizations enrolled a large share of the population. The Oregon Health Plan, conceived in the 1990s, made care more available to the working poor. The system ran lean. Reformers emphasized primary and preventive care, allowing the state to operate with the fewest hospital beds per capita in the nation. Then came the latest coronavirus surge.
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Despite obstacles, Native Americans have the nation’s highest COVID-19 vaccination rate

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By Richard Read 
| Daily Press (Newport News, VA)
By Richard Read, Los Angeles Times Tribune Content Agency | Aug 16, 2021 at 2:29 PM LODGE POLE, Mont. — For the first several months of the pandemic, the residents of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation were spared by their seclusion in the plains of northern Montana. But when the coronavirus finally arrived, it hit hard. The six-bed hospital was quickly overwhelmed, and dozens of patients had to be airlifted to Billings or beyond.
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With delta surging, America is dangerously divided over vaccines

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By Jenny Jarvie , Richard Read , Molly Hennessy-Fiske 
| Hill Country News
NEWS FEATURES / CORONAVIRUS Jenny Jarvie, Richard Read and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times (TNS) Posted 8/13/21 Peyton Thetford straddles two Americas. Inside the intensive care unit at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, the 27-year-old nurse has witnessed a dramatic … Sign up to keep reading — IT'S FREE! In an effort to improve our website and enhance our local coverage, HillCountryNews.com has switched to a membership model.
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Despite obstacles, Native Americans have the nation's highest COVID-19 vaccination rate

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By Richard Read 
| Yahoo Canada
Summer Ariwite holds hands with her niece, Kaycee Moss, who recently turned 12, old enough to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by Samantha Allen, a public-health nurse at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. (Richard Read / Los Angeles Times) For the first several months of the pandemic, the residents of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation were spared by their seclusion in the plains of northern Montana. But when the coronavirus finally arrived, it hit hard.
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Despite obstacles, Native Americans have the nation's highest COVID-19 vaccination rate

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By Richard Read 
| Yahoo News
Summer Ariwite holds hands with her niece, Kaycee Moss, who recently turned 12, old enough to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by Samantha Allen, a public-health nurse at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. (Richard Read / Los Angeles Times) For the first several months of the pandemic, the residents of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation were spared by their seclusion in the plains of northern Montana. But when the coronavirus finally arrived, it hit hard.
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Why are vaccination rates so low? We found the worst county in each state and asked the politicians

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By Jaweed Kaleem , Terry Castleman , Richard Read 
| Yahoo News
People work at a mass vaccination site operated by the University of Alabama at Birmingham earlier this year. (Jay Reeves / Associated Press) For more than a year, Steve Allender, the Republican mayor of Rapid City, S.D., took a public stand in favor of COVID-19 safety measures, urging people to wear masks, avoid large gatherings and — following his example — get vaccinated.
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America is dangerously divided over vaccines

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By Jenny Jarvie , Richard Read , Molly Hennessy-Fiske 
| Iola Register
HEFLIN, Ala. — Peyton Thetford straddles two Americas. Inside the intensive care unit at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, the 27-year-old nurse has witnessed a dramatic uptick in new COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe.
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With Delta surging, America is dangerously divided over vaccines

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By Jenny Jarvie , Richard Read , Molly Hennessy-Fiske , Neil Strebig 
| Lookout Santa Cruz
Peyton Thetford straddles two Americas. Inside the intensive care unit at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, the 27-year-old nurse has witnessed a dramatic uptick in new COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe. But after grueling 12-hour shifts — moving patients from their backs to their stomachs and then turning them onto their sides every two hours to keep their oxygen levels up — he leaves the hospital and sees hardly anyone wearing masks or practicing social distancing.
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This urgent Idaho road trip just saved 8 sockeye from fatally warm Snake River dam pools

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By Richard Read 
| Idaho Statesman
EAGLE The fish shimmied past her underwater office window inside the Lower Granite Dam, solo and in small groups, an endless parade of Chinook salmon, steelhead and shad. Debby Stallcop observed and counted, dutifully logging each traveler by species with a tap on a specialized keyboard. Finally, an hour and a half into her shift at the eastern Washington dam, a lime-green fish, nearly 2 feet long with a forked tail, appeared through the glass.
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Instead of swimming up the too-warm Snake River, endangered salmon take the highway upstream in a pickup truck

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By Richard Read 
| Anchorage Daily News
EAGLE, Idaho – The fish shimmied past her underwater office window inside the Lower Granite Dam, solo and in small groups, an endless parade of chinook salmon, steelhead and shad. Debby Stallcop observed and counted, dutifully logging each traveler by species with a tap on a specialized keyboard. Finally, an hour and a half into her shift at the eastern Washington dam, a lime-green fish, nearly 2 feet long with a forked tail, appeared through the glass.
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Instead of braving the river, these endangered salmon take the highway

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By Richard Read 
| The Columbian
EAGLE, Idaho – The fish shimmied past her underwater office window inside the Lower Granite Dam, solo and in small groups, an endless parade of Chinook salmon, steelhead and shad. Debby Stallcop observed and counted, dutifully logging each traveler by species with a tap on a specialized keyboard. Finally, an hour and a half into her shift at the eastern Washington dam, a lime-green fish, nearly 2 feet long with a forked tail, appeared through the glass.
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Instead of braving the river, these endangered salmon take the highway

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By Richard Read 
| Phys.org
by Richard Read Credit: CC0 Public Domain The fish shimmied past her underwater office window inside the Lower Granite Dam, solo and in small groups, an endless parade of Chinook salmon, steelhead and shad. Debby Stallcop observed and counted, dutifully logging each traveler by species with a tap on a specialized keyboard. Finally, an hour and a half into her shift at the eastern Washington dam, a lime-green fish, nearly 2 feet long with a forked tail, appeared through the glass.
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Instead of braving the river, these endangered salmon take the highway

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By Richard Read 
| Yahoo News
Technicians Kyle King, left, and Lara Breitkreutz trap a salmon at Lower Granite Dam for trucking past warm water to safety. (Richard Read / Los Angeles Times) The fish shimmied past her underwater office window inside the Lower Granite Dam, solo and in small groups, an endless parade of Chinook salmon, steelhead and shad. Debby Stallcop observed and counted, dutifully logging each traveler by species with a tap on a specialized keyboard.
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A Washington town marooned at the tip of a Canadian peninsula

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By Richard Read 
| The Columbian
POINT ROBERTS — In 1846, after decades of haggling, American and British diplomats finally agreed on a border between the U.S. Northwest and what would later become Canada. Following the 49th parallel west from the Rocky Mountains almost to Vancouver Island, the boundary sliced straight across a peninsula that jutted south from Canada, leaving 4.8 square miles on the American side. Point Roberts, Washington, long prospered as an appendage of Canada.
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A US town marooned at the tip of a Canadian peninsula

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By Richard Read 
| Finger Lakes Times
POINT ROBERTS, Wash. — In 1846, after decades of haggling, American and British diplomats finally agreed on a border between the U.S. Northwest and what would later become Canada. Following the 49th parallel west from the Rocky Mountains almost to Vancouver Island, the boundary sliced straight across a peninsula that jutted south from Canada, leaving 4.8 square miles on the American side. Point Roberts, Washington, long prospered as an appendage of Canada.
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U.S.-Canada border closure over COVID-19 leaves town stuck on Apple Podcasts

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By Steven Cuevas, Richard Read , Gustavo Arellano , Shannon Lin , Shani Hilton, Denise Guerra, Abbie Fentress Swanson , Mario Diaz
| Apple Podcasts
21 min Point Roberts, Wash., is separated by not one but two international borders. People on the U.S.-Canadian peninsula have been living like this for generations. For them it was routine, until the pandemic hit. 21 min
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Kauai beat COVID-19. Now the Hawaiian island faces a new challenge: Rebuilding the economy

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By Richard Read 
| Killeen Daily Herald
HANAPEPE, Hawaii — Homeless people here on Hawaii's northern island got an unusual invitation last year: Come set up camp at a spectacular beach, with showers, toilets and electricity, and meals delivered by the local food bank. The offer was part of an aggressive plan by Kauai's leaders to contain the coronavirus. The public campgrounds were all but deserted because tourism had collapsed under the weight of the pandemic and strict quarantine rules.
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Kauai beat COVID-19. Now the Hawaiian island faces a new challenge: Rebuilding the economy

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By Richard Read 
| The Derrick and The News-Herald
HANAPEPE, Hawaii — Homeless people here on Hawaii's northern island got an unusual invitation last year: Come set up camp at a spectacular beach, with showers, toilets and electricity, and meals delivered by the local food bank. The offer was part of an aggressive plan by Kauai's leaders to contain the coronavirus. kAm%96 AF3=:4 42>A8C@F?5D H6C6 2== 3FE 56D6CE65 3642FD6 E@FC:D> 925 4@==2AD65 F?56C E96 H6:89E @7 E96 A2?56>:4 2?5 DEC:4E BF2C2?E:?6 CF=6D] {6EE:?8 2 76H 9F?5C65 A6@A=6 DE2J :?
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Kauai beat COVID-19. Now the Hawaiian island faces a new challenge: Rebuilding the economy

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By Richard Read 
| Yahoo News
Cynthia and Lance Keener, owners of Ohana Fishing Charters, felt officials on Kauai went too far in imposing virus restrictions. Now that some have lifted, they say, business has improved. (Caleb Jones / Associated Press) Homeless people here on Hawaii’s northern island got an unusual invitation last year: Come set up camp at a spectacular beach, with showers, toilets and electricity, and meals delivered by the local food bank.
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A Des Moines resident led the Proud Boys in the Capitol riot and shamed his town

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By Richard Read 
| The Seattle Times
Dozens of merchants here on the shore of Puget Sound received a letter in August 2019 decrying the rise of far-right extremism in America — and its arrival in their town. “Here in our own community, a prominent seafood restaurant on Marine View Drive has a connection with the Proud Boys,” it said.
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He led the Proud Boys in the Capitol riot and shamed his town

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By Richard Read 
| Yahoo
Ethan Nordean, speaking into a bullhorn, leads the Proud Boys' march on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. A top national leader of the far-right group, Nordean, 30, also participated in violent rallies on the West Coast. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) Dozens of merchants here on the shore of Puget Sound received a letter in August of 2019 decrying the rise of far-right extremism in America — and its arrival in their town.
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Scientists call for sweeping change in building design to reduce airborne diseases like COVID-19

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By Richard Read 
| MSN
The failure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic has been blamed on ill-preparedness, poor leadership and political squabbling. © (RAUL ARBOLEDA / Getty Images) A man passes through a device in Bogota, Colombia, that uses ultraviolet light and cold steam for disinfection. (RAUL ARBOLEDA / Getty Images) A group of scientists has identified another culprit: buildings.
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Separated at the U.S.-Canada border: For a father and son, 90 miles is a distance too far

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By Richard Read 
| MSN
© (Don MacKinnon / For The Times) Carlos Rivera holds a photo Thursday of his son, Enrrique, 9, in his home in Surrey, British Columbia. They have been separated since 2019. (Don MacKinnon / For The Times) In 2019, federal agents took Carlos Rivera away in handcuffs when he strayed across the U.S.-Canada border, even though he says they could see his 7-year-old son waiting for him with a friend on the Canadian side.
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COVID-19 surges in Oregon, sickening younger adults and forcing a return to restrictions

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By Richard Read 
| MSN
For months, Susannah Sbragia waited her turn for a COVID-19 vaccination while Oregon's teachers, older adults and others with higher priority got theirs. © (Abigail Dollins / Statesman-Journal via Associated Press) Oregon Gov. Kate Brown visits with National Guard members at a vaccination clinic in Salem earlier this year. (Abigail Dollins / Statesman-Journal via Associated Press) The 55-year-old city finance director was meticulous about wearing a mask and washing her hands during the pandemic.
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Hawaii coffee farmers hope lawsuit settlements guarantee the Kona in your cup is real

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By Richard Read 
| The Columbian
By Richard Read, Los Angeles Times Published: March 21, 2021, 6:00am Bob Smith, one of the growers who filed suit accusing companies of counterfeiting Kona coffee, prunes a tree on the farm he owns with his wife on Hawaii's Big Island. (Richard Read/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Whenever Suzanne Shriner left Hawaii to visit the U.S. mainland, she didn’t have to taste the Kona coffee sold at Costco, Walmart and other big-box stores to conclude it was fake.
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Biden administration presses ahead with plans for gun-control executive orders

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By Jaweed Kaleem , Richard Read , Melissa Etehad , Jennifer Peltz 
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
WASHINGTON — With Congress unlikely to move quickly on gun legislation, the White House is pressing ahead with plans for a series of executive orders that President Joe Biden expects to roll out in the coming weeks as a way of keeping up pressure on the issue.
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Suspect in Boulder mass shooting had a history of angry outbursts and an assault conviction

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By Jaweed Kaleem , Richard Read , Melissa Etehad 
| Hill Country News
NATION Jaweed Kaleem, Richard Read and Melissa Etehad, Los Angeles Times (TNS) Posted 3/24/21 The 21-year-old accused of killing 10 people at a supermarket here had a history of angry outbursts — including a conviction for violently attacking a high school … Sign up to keep reading — IT'S FREE! In an effort to improve our website and enhance our local coverage, HillCountryNews.com has switched to a membership model. Fill out the form below to create a free account.
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Suspect in Boulder mass shooting had a history of angry outbursts and an assault conviction

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By Jaweed Kaleem , Richard Read , Melissa Etehad 
| MSN
© (Chet Strange / Getty Images) Mourners pay their respects to Officer Eric Talley, who was killed when a gunman opened fire at a King Soopers grocery store, on March 23, 2021 in Boulder, Colo. Ten people were killed in the attack.
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Counterfeit coffee? Hawaii farmers hope lawsuit guarantees the Kona in your cup is real

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By Richard Read 
| The Philadelphia Inquirer
Whenever Suzanne Shriner left Hawaii to visit the U.S. mainland, she didn’t have to taste the Kona coffee sold at Costco, Walmart and other big-box stores to conclude it was fake. She just looked at the price of the beans — significantly less per pound than it cost to produce on her farm on the Big Island. "There's a lot of money in counterfeiting, and it happens in every industry, but we're not nameless, faceless corporations," she said.
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Hawaii coffee farmers hope lawsuit settlements guarantee the Kona in your cup is real

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By Richard Read 
| The Minnesota Star Tribune
Los Angeles Times Whenever Suzanne Shriner left Hawaii to visit the U.S. mainland, she didn't have to taste the Kona coffee sold at Costco, Walmart and other big-box stores to conclude it was fake. She just looked at the price of the beans — significantly less per pound than it cost to produce on her farm on the Big Island. "There's a lot of money in counterfeiting, and it happens in every industry, but we're not nameless, faceless corporations," she said.
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Atlanta spa shootings stir fear amid historic rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans

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By Jaweed Kaleem , Richard Read 
| Yahoo
Jessica Lang drops off flowers at Young's Asian Massage, where four people were killed Tuesday in Acworth, Ga. (Curtis Compton / Associated Press) June Macon planned to celebrate this week when her mother and grandmother had gotten COVID-19 vaccine shots, including finally hugging them after months of separation during the pandemic.
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Protesters, including children and elected officials, burn masks in Idaho, though masks are not required there

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By Richard Read 
| South Florida Sun Sentinel
By Richard Read, Los Angeles Times Tribune Content Agency | Mar 07, 2021 at 9:43 AM COEUR D’ALENE, IDAHO — More than a year into a pandemic that has claimed 523,000 lives in the United States, right-wing protesters in Idaho, including a handful of elected officials, set protective masks aflame Saturday, claiming face coverings stifle their personal liberties.
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Right-wing Idaho activists burn masks, claiming COVID restrictions infringe on liberties

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By Richard Read 
| MSN
© (Richard Read / Los Angeles Times) Opponents of health restrictions due to the pandemic drop masks into a symbolic burn pot containing dry ice at a rally in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Saturday. (Richard Read / Los Angeles Times) More than a year into a pandemic that has claimed 523,000 lives in the United States, right-wing protesters in Idaho, including a handful of elected officials, set protective masks aflame Saturday, claiming face coverings stifle their personal liberties.
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Ammon Bundy, veteran of armed standoffs, builds militia network on COVID-19 backlash

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By Richard Read 
| Idaho Statesman
EMMETT, Idaho The two dozen demonstrators pressed against the emergency room doors, screaming to be let in. “Show us the law!” they chanted. “Let Grandma out!” one shouted. They had descended on Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington, the evening of Jan. 29 to protest the quarantine of Gayle Meyer, a 74-year-old patient who had refused to take a test for the coronavirus.
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