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Barbados Elects Its First Female Prime Minister
National Guardsman Who Was Missing Trying To Rescue Woman During Flash Flood Found
ELLIOTT CITY, MD — A Maryland man who went miss- ing while rescuing a woman from flash flooding in Ellicott City has been found dead.
The body of Edison “Eddie” Hermond’s was re- covered from the Patapsco River Tuesday (May 29) morn- ing, the Howard County Police Department shared in a Face- book post.
Hermond, a 39-year-old National Guard sergeant and Armed Forces veteran, was res- cuing store owner, Kate Bow- man from behind a local restaurant Sunday, before being tragically “washed away” by flood waters.
“He, along with some other folks, went back to assist her and unfortunately during that effort they saw him go under and water and not surface,” Howard County Police Chief
National Guardsman, Edi- son Hermond was swept away by flash flooding in Maryland on Sunday, trying to help oth- ers was found on Tuesday.
Gary Gardner explained, ac- cording to CBS Baltimore.
Ellicott City began flooding after as much as 9.5 inches of rain fell Sunday, which is the second disastrous downpour to hit the area in two years.
The Caribbean island of Barbados elected its first fe- male prime minister last Thursday.
Mia Amor Mottley, heads Barbados Labour Party, and will be sworn in as the country’s next prime min- ister after the party won all 30 seats in the country’s House of Assembly.
According to reports, Mot- tley campaigned on a plat- form attacking high taxes and the expensive cost of living on the island.
She attributed these issues
PHILADELPHIA, PA — When Richard “Tre” Jenk- ins was a kid, he never imag- ined he’d attend an Ivy League school.
Jenkins, 18, of Philadel- phia, along with his mother, Quiana McLaughlin, and two brothers, bounced around for years before they finally got a home of their own when Jenkins was about 13.
As a kid, Jenkins found comfort in his love of learning, and even drew the ire of bullies who criticized his smarts.
But being smart and stu- dious have paid off. Jenkins
Mia Mottley was elected
to policies ushered in by the current ruling Democratic Labour Party, which has held a majority of seats in govern- ment since 2008.
The landslide victory ousted the Democratic Labour Party and current Prime Minister Freundel Stuart. He conceded defeat as results still poured in early Friday morning.
Mottley seemingly re- ceived the unofficial backing of Barbados’ most famous national: Rihanna.
Harvard University — with a full ride.
Jenkins says he applied to nearly a dozen schools and was accepted to most of them. Of the three Ivy League universi- ties to which he applied, he was put on the wait list for the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania and why are we not surprise, de- nied by Yale University.
Still, he says, Harvard was his first choice.
Jenkins recently gradu- ated from Girard College, a North Philly boarding school, says he plans to study com- puter science.
prime minister Caribbean island.
of the
Once Homeless Teen Gets Full Ride To Harvard
Richard ‘Tre’ Jenkins is headed to Harvard.
learned he’d been accepted to
4 Teens Killed In Single Car Crash After Outing Laid To Rest
Teen Phenom Born With 4 Fingers Composes Piano Music That Has Over 2 Million Viewers In Awe
WARREN, OH — It is noth- ing short of awe inspiring to be by his side, in person, to see and hear Darrius Simmons roll out his talents so effort- lessly.
It comes from just 2 fingers on his right hand. One on the left.
That's all Simmons has to work with. A few fingers where his hands should be.
His hands never completely formed.
It's a birth defect that never crosses Simmons' mind when he's mastering the piano and turning out amazing music.
He all but dismisses the birth defect, saying, "I really don't know that much about it, honestly."
How to translate the beau- tiful tapestry in his head into songs like his latest composi- tion, "Dreams Never Die." No time to acquiesce to a "disabil- ity."
"I just looked at what people
Darrius Simmons played with world-renowned pianist, Korean pianist Yiruma at Carnegie Hall 2 years ago. Yiruma challenged him to write his own music.
did and I just copied it. I found out my own way to work around it," Simmons says, matter-of-factly.
He's been working on "Dreams Never Die" since De- cember.
He started composing his own music his freshman year when Korean pianist Yiruma invited Simmons to play with him at Carnegie Hall.
Darrius was 15-years-old at the time. He was inspired right then and there at
Carnegie Hall to create the music that's already has mil- lions in awe online.
Simmons says, it's all be- cause Yiruma challenged him to do it.
And oh yeah, Darrius Simmons also plays the trombone.
And then there's this: At 18- months-old, he had both of his legs amputated.
His proud mom, Tamara Simmons says, not surpris- ingly, Darrius never missed a beat.
Christopher Desir, Nick Joyce, David Bell and Eric Sarblah were all killed.
BRIDGEWATER. MA — Four teens killed in a single car crash in East Bridgewater, Mas- sachusetts, were laid to rest over the weekend.
Hundreds of Stoughton High School students, many wearing black clothes pinned with orange ribbons, traveled to Mattapan on Friday for the fu- neral of classmate, David Bell.
At least seven buses, with or- ange and black bows attached to their grills, along with count- less cars filled with Stoughton High students arrived at Ju- bilee Christian Church in Mat- tapan for the funeral of Bell on Friday morning.
Bell, a Stoughton High foot- ball player and track athlete and three other teens died. The driver of the car is in critical condition.
The five males, in their upper teens, were traveling in one car when it crashed into a tree after an outing of paintball.
Four seats will remain empty
— four lockers closed — after the crash claimed the lives of Christopher Desir, 17, of Brockton, Eryck Sarblah, 17, of Stoughton, and Nick Joyce, 16, of Stoughton, and David Bell, 17, of Stoughton.
Back at home, David had stacks of letters from colleges interested in him for his high PSAT scores: Yale, Boston Col- lege, Rutgers. He had big plans for his life. “I’m gonna be some- body,” he would tell his father, according to the Boston Globe.
They were all going to be somebody. One of David’s best friends, 16-year-old Nick Joyce, was going to be the first member of his family to gradu- ate from a four-year college. Christopher Desir, 17, had survived Haiti’s 2010 earth- quake and built a life in Massa- chusetts with his mother. They were all celebrating Eryck Sarblah’s 17th birthday — he was a talented runner and pho- tographer, a jokester who loved his church and family.
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