33-Year-Old Member of Louisiana Governor’s Staff Dies of CCP Virus Complications
A 33-year-old member of Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’s staff has died due to complications from the CCP virus, also known as the novel coronavirus. April Dunn served in the governor’s office of disability affairs. “It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the loss of our dear April,” Edwards said in a statement Saturday. “She brightened everyone’s day with her smile, was a tremendous asset to our team and an inspiration to everyone who met her.” Dunn served as the chair of the Louisiana Developmental Disabilities Council and was a part of the State As A Model Employer Taskforce, Edwards said in the statement. “I was proud to have an advocate like April on the task force and on my staff. She set a great example for how other businesses…
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Singer-songwriter Jan Howard, who had a No. 1 country hit “For Loving You” with Bill Anderson, has died at age 91, according to the Grand Ole Opry.
The Opry, of which she was a member for nearly 50 years, announced her death on Saturday.
“Jan Howard was a force of nature in country music, at the Opry, and in life,” said Dan Rogers, the Grand Ole Opry’s vice president and executive producer, said in a statement. “We were all so lucky so many nights to hear her voice on stage and to catch up with her backstage. We’re all better for having had her in our lives.”
Her most personal song was perhaps “My Son,” which she wrote as plea for her son Jimmy’s safe return from the Vietnam war. He was killed two weeks after its release in 1968. Another son later killed himself.
Howard documented her triumphs and struggles in the 1987 autobiography “Sunshine and Shadow.”
She is survived by her remaining son, two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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Yale to Provide 300 Beds, COVID-19 Testing to Police Officers, Firefighters After Criticism
Yale University said that it would provide 300 beds and expedite COVID-19 testing to its home city’s first responders who may have been exposed to the virus. The move came after New Haven, Connecticut, Mayor Justin Elicker criticized Yale for declining to make a residence hall available to the city’s police officers and firefighters. Elicker said during a Friday online press conference that the Ivy League school turned down the mayor’s request because “all of the residence hall rooms on campus are filled with student belongings.” “Our student rooms still contain their belongings, but we have teams planning the feasibility of packing and storing all the student belongings so that the rooms could be utilized,” Yale responded in a statement, reported New Haven Register. “We are pursuing schemes that involve…
