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A high school graduate, a devoted father and hardworking mother: The Jacksonville shooting victims

A shooting at a Dollar General store in a predominately Black neighbourhood in Florida left three innocent people dead, Faiza Saqib reports. Read their stories here

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2023

Hundreds of thousands of Florida children could lose health coverage with Medicaid cutbacks

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Marne Harvich of Orange Park runs a Facebook group for Florida parents like herself who count on Medicaid as health insurance for their children. Though Harvich and her husband work, their income doesn’t cover the high cost of medical care their daughter on a ventilator requires.

Tribune News Service · Mar 26, 2023

Amber Carr, sister of Atatiana Jefferson, dies after congestive heart failure diagnosis

FORT WORTH, Texas — Amber Carr, the 33-year-old sister of Atatiana Jefferson, died Monday, according to the Carr family’s attorney.

Tribune News Service · Jan 30, 2023

‘Work to be done’: Fort Worth and beyond react after Aaron Dean convicted of manslaughter

FORT WORTH, Texas — Shouts erupted outside a Tarrant County courtroom Thursday as activists and community leaders decried that a former Fort Worth officer found guilty of manslaughter wouldn’t face a more serious conviction for fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson in 2019.

Tribune News Service · Dec 16, 2022

Former cop Aaron Dean tells jurors at Fort Worth murder trial ‘the gun was pointed directly at me’

FORT WORTH, Texas — Former Fort Worth police Officer Aaron Dean told a Tarrant County jury Monday morning he saw a gun before he shot and killed a Black woman in her mother’s home more than three years ago.

Tribune News Service · Dec 12, 2022

Prosecutors in Texas rest case 3 days into former officer's murder trial. Experts shocked, activists angered

FORT WORTH, Texas – Tarrant County prosecutors rested their murder case Wednesday against former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean, who shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in her mother’s home. Ten witnesses testified for the prosecution over three days in the much-delayed trial.

Tribune News Service · Dec 8, 2022

What happened to Atatiana Jefferson, as trial begins for Texas police officer Aaron Dean who shot her in 2019

28-year-old was killed in her own home

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2022