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Wealthy white Baton Rouge residents have won a decade-long court battle to split from poorer neighborhoods and form their own city with plans for better schools and less crime. The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the new City of St George could move forward with incorporation, splitting off from the rest of Baton Rouge. St George will have 86,000 residents across a 60-square-mile area in the southeast of East Baton Rouge Parish and will have its own Mayor and city council.

Wealthy white Baton Rouge residents have won a decade-long court battle to split from poorer neighborhoods and form their own city with plans for better schools and less crime. The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the new City of St George could move forward with incorporation, splitting off from the rest of Baton Rouge. St George will have 86,000 residents across a 60-square-mile area in the southeast of East Baton Rouge Parish and will have its own Mayor and city council.

A Utah 'Karen' who went viral for pulling down a teenager's mini skirt in a St George steakhouse has been charged with sexual battery. In a viral TikTok video the woman identifies herself to a group of teenage girls as a state employee after allegedly pulling down one of their miniskirts at Sakura Japanese Steakhouse on Saturday night. Ida Ann Lorenzo, 48, told the alleged victim that if she has to watch her 'a** cheeks hanging out again' and see her pubic hair, she would call Child Protective Services. Lorenzo later told police that she intended to file an indecent...

There are around four million Muslims in Britain, and with that rapidly growing population come societal changes. Oxford’s Magdalen College has in the past celebrated St. George’s Day on April 23 with a ceremonial dinner; this year, however, St. George’s Day plans have been deep-sixed, and Magdalen will instead host a formal dinner to mark the end of Ramadan. In Britain’s celebration of diversity, there is room for only the one observance, not both. GB News reported Wednesday that “an annual St George’s Day dinner has been cancelled by an Oxford college.” Magdalen College “usually holds an annual banquet to...

Hundreds took part in the march today Saturday 23 April 2022 from Thurland Street to Old Market Square.

The Washington City Council passed a resolution “regarding rights and liberty” Wednesday, making the council’s stance against mask and vaccination mandates official. Introduced by Councilwoman Kim Casperson, the resolution states that the City Council “supports individual choice in health care decisions” and that “as it pertains to the health decisions of Washington City’s citizens, employees, or officers, the Washington City Council does not support mask or vaccination mandates.” According to the language of the resolution, it is to serve as a clarifying statement that the council is committed to “liberty and individual rights.” Washington City Manager Jeremy Redd said this...

Yahoo News Axios Sen. Tim Scott says he will meet with George Floyd's family April 29, 2021, 1:18 pm Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) told Fox News that he is meeting with members of George Floyd's family on Thursday. State of play: Scott, the lone Black Republican in the Senate, is working with Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and other Democrats to reach a bipartisan deal on police reform.

… Floyd “was a big man, he was too big for this earth,” his former girlfriend of three years, Courteney Ross, told reporters shortly before the verdict was read. “He is all over us right now.” Asked how he likely would have felt about the verdict, Ross said Floyd would argue that “now is a time for us to come together.” […] Standing at six foot four inches (1.93 meters), Floyd was known to friends and family as a “gentle giant,” a rapper and athlete who suffered runs-in with the law and addiction but who wanted the best for his...

Andrea Jenkins, Minneapolis City Council vice president, along with state Sen. Jeff Hayden and neighbors, say they want to commemorate the Memorial Day event that cost Floyd his life and fueled worldwide demands to fundamentally change policing. "This is a conversation that is happening. There will be something memorializing George Floyd's life," said Jenkins, who represents the area. Possibilities include a traffic roundabout, a peace garden, or perhaps a sculpture, said Jenkins, who added that she has spoken with Gov. Tim Walz and several members of Congress about the idea. . . . Morales talked about a memorial that could...

Ancient catacombs under the site where Christ lived with His Most Pure Mother and St. Joseph for three years in Cairo were blessed and reopened yesterday, with the celebration of the Divine Liturgy. The Patriarchate of Alexandria had decided several months ago to renovate the St. George Catacombs and to create a meeting place of religion, culture, and history, and yesterday, Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria blessed the renovated space and consecrated the new chapel dedicated to St. Fanourios located within the catacombs, several meters below the ground, reports Romfea. “A dream came true today,” the Patriarch said during the service,...

“The martyrdom of George Floyd gave the American experience a moment of national anguish,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday, including the Minnesotan who died in police custody among her list of “names of martyrdom.” At a press conference introducing Democrats’ “Justice in Policing Act,” Pelosi said that she and her colleagues knelt for more than eight minutes on Monday because Floyd’s death was “a continuation of some horror” that has been long-present in America:

Joe Biden will travel to Houston on Monday to meet privately with the family of George Floyd and offer his condolences. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee will also record a video message that will be shown at Floyd’s funeral on Tuesday, a Biden aide told the New York Times. Biden is not expected to attend the service because there were concerns his Secret Service detail could cause a disruption.

April 23rd is England's unofficial national holiday - unofficial because, under Blairite devolution, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and selected Muslim neighborhoods of Greater London, Yorkshire and the Midlands are all legitimate nations, but English nationalism is a dark demon that must never be loosed upon the land. At the turn of the century, Tony Blair's ministry was gung-ho for Celtic semi-independence and pseudo-parliaments in Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff, but for England all the government was prepared to offer was a subdivision into artificial regions that commanded no allegiance from the masses and could therefore be safely entrusted with "regional assemblies"....

Troops of Saint George | Virtus. Honor. Fraternitas. https://troopsofsaintgeorge.org/ The Troops of Saint George is a fraternal Catholic nonprofit apostolate for priests, men, and young men looking for a life of adventure coupled with virtue.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Federation of North-American Explorers (FNE) | Explorers Youth ... https://www.fneexplorers.com/ Boys and girls learn how to assume responsibility, leadership positions, to work hard within a diverse team and as individuals and to finish what they start. Activities are constructive with purpose and structure to develop skills and useable knowledge and experiences that will measurably help develop the all- around child

(full article title: ‘If someone got hurt, I probably wouldn’t care,’ says teenager who is charged with bringing explosives to Utah high school) A teenager from southern Utah who was accused of raising a homemade Islamic State group flag in place of an American flag and lighting an explosive device at school was charged on Monday. Washington County prosecutors filed one first-degree-felony charge each of attempted murder and possession of a weapon of mass destruction. The 16-year-old was also charged with graffiti, a class A misdemeanor, and abuse of the flag, a class B misdemeanor. On Feb. 15, officials found...

Fr. Don Miller, OFM Image: Saint George and the Dragon | Gustave MoreauSaint George Saint of the Day for April 23 (c. 280 – April 23, 303)  Saint George’s Story Saint George is the object of a vast amount of imagination. There is every reason to believe that he was a real martyr who suffered at Lydda in Palestine, probably before the time of Constantine. The Church adheres to his memory, but not to the legends surrounding his life. That he was willing to pay the supreme price to follow Christ is what the Church believes. And it is...

A 50-year-old man who had sex with his neighbor while she was unconscious told police he only did it to try and keep her warm, it emerged today. Rodger William Kelly, from St George, Utah, said he inserted his penis inside the unconscious 29-year-old on May 19 because 'he was trying to save her life'. 'He said he did place it inside of her to try and get her temperature up', court documents said. He was arrested on Monday and charged with one count of first-degree felony rape.

One is a Roman soldier who killed a dragon, the other is a former King of East Anglia whose decapitated head was reunited with its body with the help of a talking wolf. Both have been England's patron saint, and both have supporters who vehemently back their respective cause to hold the title.

As concerns about rising Islamophobia in Britain grew amid anti-Muslim protests and attacks targeting mosques, authorities made a 10th arrest in last week's knifing death of a British soldier. Armed police arrested a 50-year-old man on a street in the town of Welling in southeastern England. The man's connection to the case was unclear, but like the other nine suspects, he was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. Three of those arrested are still in custody, including the two men who allegedly hacked to death British soldier Lee Rigby. Two were released without charge, and five were released...

The city council of a tiny rural hamlet in Somerset, England, has vetoed a plan to fly the flag of St. George because its links to the Christian Crusades in the Middle Ages may offend the town's Muslim residents. ... John Clements, vice president of the Royal Society of St. George, a patriotic organization, called the Radstock councilors' decision “nonsense” and a form of “censoring” of the national flag.