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CLEWISTON, Fla. – A woman was fatally shot and at least three others were injured at the Brown Sugar Festival in Clewiston Saturday night, according to the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office. Around 9:30pm, 911 began receiving multiple calls reporting a shooting in the Harlem Community of the city. Hendry County Investigators say that Deputies were in the area of Harlem Academy and 12th Street when they heard gunshots. The deputies immediately responded and found the victim, later identified as 20-year old Evereonna Sankey, a licensed certified nursing assistant from Lee County. ... The shooting occurred at the Brown Sugar Festival,...

Catholic Media Fails Good Priest Parishioner: 'It was a hit piece' DENVER (ChurchMilitant.com) - Catholic News Agency's (CNA's) editor-in-chief JD Flynn failed in his duty as a journalist, putting a priest's reputation at risk. JD Flynn These are sentiments of multiple people who attend or are associated with Our Lady of Mount Carmel (OLMC) parish in Littleton, Colorado. They're objecting to a CNA article published on Wednesday, Sept. 2, in which Flynn, they say, hyped off-the-cuff remarks made by Fr. Daniel Nolan that were inadvertently captured on video and posted briefly online Tuesday evening. The article, they believe, was overblown and lacked much-needed context, which unnecessarily put the priest on the radar of the...

In Roberson's assault and battery case two penal codes were cited: California State Sen. Joel Anderson (R-El Cajon) was accused last week by Stephanie Roberson, a female lobbyist for the California Nurses Association, a labor union, of threatening to “# slap” her and harassing her at a Capitol-area bar last week, several news outlets reported this week. Anderson is now facing a legislative investigation by the Senate Rules Committee. I spoke with Sen. Anderson who tells the story quite differently. Anderson also said the Los Angeles Times did not speak with him.

Pilgrims fill St. Peter's Square for Pope Francis' Wednesday general audience on Oct. 15, 2014. Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA. Washington D.C., Jun 12, 2015 / 05:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The global Catholic population is growing – so quickly, in fact, that priest and parish numbers cannot keep up, says a new study on trends in the worldwide Church. And this poses a challenge: With an overall growth in the number of Catholics, especially in Africa and Asia, but not enough growth in the number of parishes and priests to supplement it, there are fewer opportunities for Catholics to receive the sacraments...

This month the Vatican will gather a wide range experts in the field of exorcism with the aim of shedding light on demonic possession from both theological and scientific perspectives. The annual course, “Exorcism and Prayer of Liberation,” is designed for priests and lay persons interested in learning how to recognize a case of demonic possession when they see one – and what to do about it. This year's session will run from April 13-18 at Rome's Regina Apostolorum University, and will feature interventions by a wide range of experts in the field of exorcism from priests – including practicing...

Irondale, Ala., Jun 19, 2014 / 10:32 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In one of the biggest developments in Catholic media history, Catholic News Agency and the Eternal Word Television Network announced Thursday that the two media outlets are merging. The partnership brings the entire ACI Prensa Group – Catholic News Agency, as well as the Spanish language ACI Prensa and the Portuguese ACI Digital – into the EWTN family. “EWTN has been a partner with both Catholic News Agency and ACI Prensa for many years in creating and distributing Catholic news content, and I am very pleased and excited that...

The California Nurses Association, which antagonized Republican Meg Whitman with its relentless "Queen Meg" parody during the 2010 gubernatorial campaign, is back for a second act - this time poking fun at wealthy people opposing Gov. Jerry Brown's November ballot initiative to raise taxes. The influential union, in a campaign to paint tax opponents as "bungling billionaires," will stage a skit on Tuesday at the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco. The union promised reporters a "colorful event," with visuals including life rings and a model yacht.

Rose Ann DeMoro is always ready for another fight. And why not? During the past decade, the leader of the California Nurses Association has won so many of her battles. Largely because of CNA efforts, California is poised to become the first state where registered nurses make an average salary above $100,000. The union helped defeat gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman in 2010 and has become a political force, throwing financial support behind candidates for offices ranging from Santa Rosa City Council to state attorney general. ...California's nurses have done plenty to increase demand and their own bargaining power. In 1999,...

Accusations and bad will registered nearly as loud as the chants outside nine Bay Area hospitals during a 24-hour walkout Thursday morning. The one-day strike started at 7 a.m. by nurses angry at concessions proposed by the Sutter Health Network during contract negotiations. At Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, two dozen registered nurses gathered on the chilly Thursday morning. "Patient safety is our goal" they chanted outside the facility's entrance at Webster and Hawthorne streets. Another dozen or so nurses braved the morning weather to stand outside of Antioch's Sutter Delta Medical Center. The striking nurses said they...

Thousands of nurses at more than 30 Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Northern California will walk off the job Thursday in what union officials say will be the nation's largest-ever nurses' strike. More than 23,000 nurses represented by the powerful California Nurses Association – including 17,000 from Kaiser hospitals – are expected to honor the walkout, primarily in the Bay Area but also at Kaiser's Sacramento-area hospitals. Kaiser officials said they are prepared "to provide high-quality health care and service" during the strike. The massive one-day strike, engineered by the CNA –

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GREENFIELD, Ind. -- A certified nursing assistant faces a voyeurism charge and was fired from her job after she posted a photo of a patient on Facebook, authorities said. Taia Armstrong, 30, was a certified nursing assistant at Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation in Greenfield. Investigators for the Indiana Attorney General's Office said Armstrong took a picture of a paraplegic 51-year-old male patient's buttocks after he had a bowel movement and posted the photo on Facebook in May...

Protesters from the California Nurses Association and other unions plan to tail Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman for the last 12 days of the campaign, said CNA spokeswoman Liz Jacobs. The union started this morning when its members and other protesters appeared at a Whitman event held at the business Ramcast Ornamental Supply Co. in Los Angeles. The protest included the satirical character Queen Meg, a send-up of Whitman played by actress Elaine Burn, and a bus printed with the words "Queen Meg Farewell Tour" and "Lies, Hypocrisy & Pink Slips."

The tree-lined Atherton street where Meg Whitman lives was overrun Thursday afternoon by roughly 1,000 nurses clad in red scrubs, who staged a rally and political skit in front of the Republican gubernatorial candidate's home to demonstrate their opposition. As curious neighbors watched, nurses from around the state arrived in dozens of buses and marched along Edge Road for a 1 p.m. demonstration organized by the California Nurses Association. Whitman wasn't home — she was at a campaign event in Southern California — but the rally still attracted local print and TV media and three dozen police officers from around...

The California Nurses Association has taken on powerful people before, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislators from both major parties, and has scored resounding wins. In each showdown, the 86,000-person union made full use of its key advantage – the appeal of its members' professions – while pressing hard for policies that benefited nurses. This election year, the union is putting its powers to the test as it challenges its most well-funded opponent to date, billionaire Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, who is wasting no time fighting back. That the union is leading the anti-Whitman front so far speaks volumes...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman escalated her battle with the California Nurses Association this morning by debuting a website criticizing the union and unveiling internal polling showing Democratic rival Jerry Brown leading Whitman by three percentage points among nurses statewide. The website, titled "Truth for Nurses," features articles and a video accusing the nurses union of, among other things, paying exorbitant salaries to its president and other executives and wasting members' dues on political activity, such as a running protest featuring an actress playing Queen Meg - a parody of the billionaire candidate. The internal poll, conducted by Hill Research...

A San Francisco judge today reaffirmed his decision barring thousands of registered nurses statewide, including 1,800 from the UC Davis Medical Center, from walking off the job in a dispute with the University of California over staffing levels. In his ruling, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter J. Busch prohibited the California Nurses Association from staging a strike until at least Sept. 30, when the current contract between the union and the university expires. The CNA had planned to stage a one-day walkout at six university-run hospitals to protest what the union said were unsafe nurse staffing levels at the...

Despite a legal setback that blocked a threatened one-day strike, the California Nurses Association announced today that it planned to hold rallies tomorrow at University of California campuses statewide to protest staffing levels at university-run hospitals. Informational pickets are expected to go up Thursday morning . . .

A San Francisco judge today blocked thousands of nurses from striking on Thursday, granting a temporary restraining order sought by the University of California. As many as 11,000 registered nurses employed by the university, including 1,800 at the UC Davis Medical Center, were expected to walk picket lines or stay home Thursday to protest

More than 12,000 nurses in California are set to hold a one-day walkout Thursday, taking part in what could be the largest registered nursing strike in the country's history. The nurses plan to walk off their jobs at five University of California hospitals - San Francisco, Davis, Los Angeles, Irvine and San Diego - and three hospitals in Los Angeles County. Nurses from the same union in Minnesota are also planning to strike that day, bringing the number of striking nurses nationwide to more than 24,000. The California Public Employment Relations Board, or PERB, the quasi-judicial agency charged with administering...