Scenes from Week 1 of Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-abuse trial
The first week of the sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell saw the first of her four main accusers taking the witness stand to give emotional testimony accusing the British socialite of coaxing her into sexual encounters with financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Woman and ex-boyfriend killed in murder-suicide at Lake County RV resort, deputies say
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – Lake County deputies released the names on Monday of the two people found dead inside an RV resort after a murder-suicide. Investigators said Keven McCarthy, 50, and Michelle Nathan, 56, were both found shot to death outdoors in the RV resort in Sorrento on Wekiva River Road. They also said was found Nathan about 50 feet away with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Witnesses told investigators that McCarthy was last seen earlier that morning sitting around a campfire with Nathan’s daughter and a friend of hers, deputies said. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24 hours a day in English and Spanish at 1-800-273-8255.
‘I did it without question,’ says first Black student to integrate Seminole County Public Schools
SANFORD, Fla. – Ingrid Burton Nathan was the first Black student to integrate Seminole County Schools. In 1964, she entered Sanford Junior High School, and she was among the first Black students to attend Seminole High School. Growing up during segregation, Nathan remembers being excited to make history as the first Black student to integrate Seminole County Schools. There were bright spots, too, in her trailblazing story of integration in Seminole County Schools. She says her greatest accomplishment, the thing she is most proud of, is sponsoring the gospel choir at Lake Mary High School.
As the virus resurges, mental health woes batter France
Lockdowns that France has used to fight the coronavirus have come at considerable cost to mental health. Behind her, the psychiatric emergency ward's heavy double doors — openable only with a staff member's key — thud shut. She is unnerved that she is starting to obsess about knives, fearful that her mental health might be collapsing. But the costs to mental health have been considerable. The pandemic has also had other mental health repercussions that are less evident but no less devastating.