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By Ashley Grams

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    Minnesota (WCCO) — A family in southern Minnesota is looking for a stolen boat, one they say has a priceless connection to the past.

The boat belonged to Gary Schoeder Jr., who spent years serving as a police officer and firefighter in Zumbrota. Schroeder medically retired in 2020 while battling PTSD. He later died by suicide in 2023.

The community of Zumbrota came together to construct a memorial in his honor outside the police station last year. His name was also added to a firefighter memorial outside of the Minnesota State Capitol during a ceremony last September.

Minnesotans continue to honor Schroeder’s life. Just last week, Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill that would rename a stretch of Highway 58 in his honor.

The family says Schroeder’s boat was taken from Pioneer Campground outside of Wabasha. Schroeder’s sister, Elizabeth Sunday, called the boat an important connection to the man they lost.

“This boat is more than a boat. It is not a thing, it’s a vessel of memories,” said Sunday. “It was just, like, ripping another piece of him away.”

Sunday continues to tell her brother’s life story, hoping the men and women who serve are empowered to get the help they need. She also emphasized the important role the community plays in supporting law enforcement officers.

Sunday said while working in the small town of Zumbrota, Schroeder was often helping people he knew well.

“He knew everybody, so it really hit home for the ones that he couldn’t save, or the ones that had traumatic events. He wore their pain every day,” she said.

Sunday said she’s grateful to the people of Zumbrota who have rallied around her family after her brother’s death, and those who continue to support them as they search for this cherished boat.

If you or someone you know is in emotional distress, get help from the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988. Trained crisis counselors are available 24 hours a day to talk about anything.

In addition, help is available from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI. Call the NAMI Helpline at 800-950-6264 or text “HelpLine” to 62640. There are more than 600 local NAMI organizations and affiliates across the country, many of which offer free support and education programs.

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By CeFaan Kim

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    NEW YORK (WABC) — A grieving father from the Bronx is demanding answers after the tragic death of his teenage daughter.

Emery Lynn Mizell was just 17 when she was fatally stabbed by another teen in Soundview in 2024.

Her father called the act the horrifying ending of a month-long cyberbullying campaign.

Now, he’s taking Meta and the City of New York to court, accusing them of failing to prevent the violence.

“She was a smart girl, she wanted to be a nurse, she liked to dance,” said Tony Mizell, the father of the victim.

He says his whole world has been flipped upside down.

Two years after his 17-year-old daughter was viciously stabbed to death by a 15-year-old girl, he still wonders what more he could’ve done.

“She cried to me like you know there’s a girl who keeps saying things and I just said leave it alone,” Mizell said. “I called the school, but the school, you know, that girl wasn’t coming to school, so there was no conference that happened.”

Her family says it happened after the 17-year-old was on the receiving end of weeks of harassment and bullying online.

She was fatally stabbed outside the assailant’s building in the Soundview section of the Bronx.

Emery’s father says the suspect waited for his daughter as she was walking to school. She was stabbed in the chest. The assailant was charged with murder.

The victim’s father says that before the attack, the suspect threatened to stab his daughter on Instagram.

Her family is now filing a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against Meta, the city and ACS.

“Meta should be held accountable for what happened here as well as the city agency that’s responsible for children,” Sanford Rubenstein said.

“The knife that was used was from the family’s home, and ACS should have done more to supervise this child,” said Mark David Shirian, the Mizell’s family attorney.

ACS is reviewing the lawsuit.

Meta declined comment, but states in its policies that content involving threats, bullying and harassment are removed.

“My life is different,” Mizell said. “I have to see her sister, who looks just like her. When I go home, it’s like my heart just stops all over again. It feels like it happened just yesterday.”

He says his youngest daughter now sleeps in the living room to be close to her sister’s cremated remains.

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By Taylor Thompson

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    ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Tuesday marks the end of National Nurses Week. News 13 sat down with a group of nurses from Mission Hospital who are putting in generations of care.

Lynn Maloy, now a nursing director, began her career at Mission back in 2002. She had no idea at the time that all three of her daughters would follow in her footsteps.

“It’s been a blessing to have all of them here at the hospital. It makes me choke up a little,” she said.

They all work in different departments throughout the hospital: Sarah Maloy is a pediatric nurse anesthetist. Ashley Tanner is an RN in the wound and burn clinic. Brooke Lusk is a school teacher and a PCT in the pediatric unit.

Lynn said the irony is that they hardly see each other working in these different departments, but it’s great knowing that everyone is under one roof. All of Lynn’s daughters credited her work ethic and encouragement for why they began their nursing careers.

“She has the most grit of anyone I’ve ever met in my entire life,” Sarah said.

For all of them, National Nurses Week means more being part of what goes on inside the hospital walls.

“Nurses are really underappreciated. There’s so much that goes on behind the scenes that nurses do that people just don’t understand and they’re quick to blame if something goes wrong – blame the nurse,” Sarah said.

Lynn said that nursing was a second career for her, but she could not imagine doing anything else or doing this job anywhere else but Mission Hospital. Nursing is a physical, mental and emotional job. Lynn explained how nurses shoulder the vast responsibility of patient care in the hospital.

“Nurses kind of carried the whole world through the pandemic; it’s very touching to me, spending my career here and seeing the growth of nurses,” she said.

Now, there are already efforts for the generational trend to continue.

“My daughter has already said she wants to be an ER nurse,” Brooke said.

Lynn said that between her and her girls, they have around 50 years of work at Mission Hospital and plan to end their careers there. While National Nurses Week has come to a close, this group of nurses reminds everyone that they deserve to be appreciated year-round.

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By John Ramos

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    SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — On Monday, a group of city leaders met at a street corner in San Francisco to commemorate an 1886 landmark Supreme Court ruling that established the foundation of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

It’s a little-known piece of AAPI history outside of legal circles, but it’s at the center of the political struggles in the nation today.

On Monday afternoon, a commemoration was held at the corner of Third and Harrison Streets, which is now just a parking lot. But almost exactly 140 years ago, there was a Chinese laundry at that location called Yick Wo that ran afoul of local ordinances and changed America as a result.

Following the Gold Rush, the laundry business was taken over by the Chinese immigrant community. But David Lei, a board member of the Chinese Historical Society of America, said the laundry businesses couldn’t just operate in Chinatown.

“As is true today, you have to be in the neighborhood,” he said, “so the Chinese were scattered all over.”

That angered the white populace. So, in 1886, the city had passed a law that said that no one could operate a laundry made of wood without a permit. On its face, it looked like a public safety issue.

“So, 320 laundries immediately applied for this application,” said Lei. “One hundred got their permits. Two hundred and twenty were rejected.”

The 100 were all White, the 220 were all Chinese. So, the owner of Yick Wo, a man named Lee Yick, refused to pay a $10 fine for operating without a permit and took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Despite the rampant racism of the day, the justices ruled on May 10, 1886, that the law violated the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection clause based not on what it said, but how it was being administered.

The ruling also confirmed that protection extended to everyone, regardless of citizenship.

Before he retired in 2018, Justice Anthony Kennedy spoke with a group of law students about the historical meaning of the Yick Wo ruling.

“It says that even though the law is neutral on its face, if in application it’s being applied in order to hurt a particular race, it’s void,” said Justice Kennedy. “That’s a tremendously powerful principle, and that’s why the Yick Wo case is cited today.”

In fact, the ruling became the basis for most of the legal challenges of the civil rights movement, culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But Professor Matthew Coles at UC Law, San Francisco, said the very premise of the landmark Yick Wo ruling is now being threatened.

“The Supreme Court, at least at that point, had the good sense to understand that you don’t just look for statements of intent. You look for results,” said Prof. Coles. “And the results here seemed very, very clear. If you were Chinese, you couldn’t run a laundry. If you weren’t, you could. The most important thing it established was that you don’t need a smoking gun to prove discrimination. You can look at the results. What makes this moment, I think, particularly poignant is the Supreme Court just decided in a voting rights case that you can’t prove a violation of the Voting Rights Act unless you can prove intent.”

As a result of the Court’s April 29 ruling, states across the nation are now rushing to redistrict their voting maps, being careful not to state what the real intent may be.

“So, immediately, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, all decided that they’re going to redraw their Congressional districts,” said Prof. Coles. “You know, it doesn’t take a genius to see what’s going on. They’re going to get rid of the districts that have been electing Black people to Congress.”

The Yick Wo case may be 140 years old, but Prof. Coles said the argument behind it still rings true in 2026.

“And I think what it tells us is, in the late 19th century, the Supreme Court seemed to understand discrimination, and the way it works, a lot better than our Supreme Court does today.”

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By Joey Martin

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    JEROME, Idaho (KIVI) — A small green farm stand in Jerome County is giving neighbors a taste of modern homestead life — and it runs entirely on the honor system.

Lydia Harbaugh and her husband Jeff have operated An Enchanted Homestead for the last two years, selling what their family doesn’t use from their working homestead.

“This is our little farmstand: An Enchanted Homestead,” Harbaugh said.

The operation started simply, with surplus eggs and homemade natural remedies.

“When we started this, it was just to share our abundance of eggs and natural remedies because all these things are things that our family uses, so I just made extra to share with our community,” Harbaugh explained.

The stand has since grown to include a wide range of homestead products, from fresh-baked breads and sweet treats to preserves and all-natural remedies made from ingredients grown and raised on the property.

“Fire cider — it’s spicy, and it’s a good decongestant, and it’s done using hot peppers that we grow, turmeric and other spices. Tallow balms using tallow from home-raised animals. Dandelion and cayenne salve, great for pain. Our elderberry syrup — this is also very popular — it’s like Christmas in a jar,” Harbaugh said.

Every item on the shelves is labeled with a price and an information card explaining ingredients and how to use the product.

“There are all these things that have information cards that people can take pictures of so that they know it has the ingredients and how to use them,” added Harbaugh.

Jose Juarez, who works in the area, stops by the stand as often as he can.

“Good pastries, zucchini bread if you like zucchini bread. My wife likes the artisan bread and the sourdough bread that she bakes, so we’ll stop and get that and then, of course, the fresh eggs,” Juarez said.

The stand is stocked daily and open seven days a week. Harbaugh said customers can find it at 450 South, 500 West in Jerome, Idaho.

“We’re open every day, Monday through Friday from 2 through 8 p.m. and then Saturdays and Sundays 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.,” Harbaugh said.

There are no cashiers and no card readers — just a cash box, a QR code for PayPal, Cash App and Venmo, and a notebook for customer notes.

“This is our little checkout station. We have the cash box, QR code for PayPal and Cash App and Venmo, and a little notebook where people leave me the best notes. It is the honor system, and knock on wood, so far we have not had issues,” Harbaugh said.

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