Days of unrelenting heavy rain and storms that killed at least 18 people worsened flooding as some rivers rose to near-record levels Monday and inundated towns across an already saturated U.S. South and parts of the Midwest.
Cities ordered evacuations and rescue crews in inflatable boats checked on residents in Kentucky and Tennessee, while utilities shut off power and gas in a region stretching from Texas to Ohio.
A Russian ballistic missile strike Friday on a central Ukrainian city killed at least 20 people, including nine children, Ukrainian officials said, as U.S. and European leaders pressed Russia to accept a ceasefire in the conflict.
At least 50 people were wounded in the strike on Kryvyi Rih — the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — in what the region’s leader Serhii Lysak described as an “assault against civilians.”
Two grants totaling over $9.6 million were reinstated to St. Thomas on March 17 after the Trump administration cut them in February, university spokesperson Brant Skogrand wrote in an email to The Crest Friday.
The Supporting Effective Educator Development and Teacher Quality Partnership funds were restored after two lawsuits were filed through a U.S. District Court.
Giovanni Mariani can be reached at mari6061@stthomas.edu.
