I'm a freelance journalist living in Paris, Kentucky. I've reported on disasters, public health, rural communities and the meatpacking industry. When I’m not writing, you might find me on a run, hiking through the Appalachians or exploring places both new and old.
The Kansas News Service received OSHA logs through a Freedom of Information Act request. Through a Kansas Open Records Act request, the news service got emails between the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and local health departments.
Those 780 emails showed that state officials played a role in keeping meatpacking plants open before President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating that plants continue operating.
National Beef employees at the Dodge City plant told the Kansas News Service they are afraid of getting infected with COVID-19.
Finney County EMS staffs three ambulances and is dedicating an additional ambulance for COVID-19 patients.
Calves at Gardiner Angus Ranch in Ashland, Kansas.
On Sept. 11, 2001, an informal interfaith prayer gathering took place on the steps of the former City Hall building in downtown Eugene.
One month later, members of the Sikh, Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Baha’i and Native American communities organized an interfaith service at First Christian Church in Eugene. It was the start of the longest running interfaith service in North America.
Since then, the Interfaith Prayer Service International (IPSI) organization has held 187 services to pray for peace, celebrate differences and embrace the world’s diverse faiths. These services have become a safe gathering place for people of all religions to connect with people in the community.
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The rise of heroin addiction and the effort to end overdose deaths
ARTICLE | JULY 21, 2016 - 12:00AM | BY CORINNE BOYER
In 2014, Crystal Webb left Alabama, landed in Eugene and moved in with a friend to kick her opiate and crystal meth addiction.
Making the decision to get distance from an environment in which she found herself intertwined with drugs and dealers was a significant step if she wanted to get clean. Webb says she locked herself away for a month and slept.
Rachael said “no” repeatedly to the man who came into her Oregon apartment and attacked her on the night of July 6, 2014.
She cried, knowing that her children were in the next room. She didn’t want them to hear. The man who raped her lived across the street.
