Tag: family
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New York family sues funeral home after 96-year-old woman’s casket is sent to wrong country
A New York City family is suing a funeral home for mistakenly sending their mother’s casket to another country for burial. Carmen Maldonado died two days after her 96th birthday. Her wish was to be buried in Ecuador next to her husband. Her family, who lives in Queens, was preparing for the funeral in Ecuador…
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Ethel Kennedy, matriarch of the famous family, dies at 96
Ethel Kennedy, who lost her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, and brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, to assassins’ bullets, and who channeled her grief into raising her 11 children and lifetime of public service, died Thursday. She was 96. Kennedy had recently suffered a stroke and was receiving treatment when she died, former Rep. Joe Kennedy…
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Kennedy family matriarch Ethel Kennedy, 96, hospitalized after stroke
Ethel Kennedy, matriarch of one of America’s most famous political families, has been hospitalized after a stroke, her family said Tuesday. The 96-year-old widow of slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and mother of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sleeping on Thursday when she had the stroke, and is now receiving treatment at a hospital, according…
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Democratic attacks on GOP candidate’s Columbian family and heritage draw charges of racism in Ohio’s Senate race
CLEVELAND — Some Democrats working to re-elect Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio this fall are attempting to raise fears about his opponent’s Colombian family and heritage, drawing charges of racism from Republicans. Bernie Moreno, a businessman who emigrated to the United States when he was a child, came here to “take advantage of America’s wealth…
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Democratic attacks on GOP candidate’s Columbian family and heritage draw charges of racism in Ohio’s Senate race
CLEVELAND — Some Democrats working to re-elect Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio this fall are attempting to raise fears about his opponent’s Colombian family and heritage, drawing charges of racism from Republicans. Bernie Moreno, a businessman who emigrated to the United States when he was a child, came here to “take advantage of America’s wealth…
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Illinois man manipulated by girlfriend into killing Romeoville family of 4, police say
An Illinois woman manipulated her cheating boyfriend to believe he was being threatened by violent drug runners, leading him to slaughter a family of four before killing that tech-savvy girlfriend and himself, police said Thursday. Detectives in the Chicago suburb of Romeoville have been working for nearly a year to understand why Nathaniel Huey Jr.,…
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Death of Tennessee plastics plant employee in Hurricane Helene leaves a close-knit family in grief
September had been a month of celebrating Bertha Mendoza’s birthday, as well as her son’s and grandson’s. It’s now also the month she died. Mendoza, 56, was one of the employees of Impact Plastics Inc. in Erwin, Tennessee, who were swept from the open bed of a truck trying to bring her and other workers…
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Latinos are questioning family racial narratives as they uncover their ancestry
Through SlaveSocieties.org, this reporter confronted his own family’s slave-owning past: Notary records from Cartagena, Colombia — once the largest slave port in South America — revealed an 1831 will of a previously unknown fourth-great-grandmother who left her daughter three enslaved youths as well as 100 pesos to purchase yet another slave. This reporter never thought…
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Chinese American family meets descendants of Black family who rented to them when others refused
CORONADO, Calif. — Standing on their lawn, members of the Dong family waited to meet the great-grandkids of a Black couple who rented a home to them a generation ago, when laws favored white residents. It was their first meeting on storied land. In 1939, Gus and Emma Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple, agreed to…
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2-year-old who walked out of family home after bedtime killed in car accident
Police in Michigan are investigating after a car hit and killed a toddler who appeared to have left her home after being put to bed on Friday. According to a statement from the Michigan State Police, a 2-year-old girl “got out of her bed and walked out of the house” while her parents were working around the family’s home…