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• Omaha bar’s ‘Jell-O Shot Challenge’ raises money for food banks across the country

  By Jay Omar Verified| The Reader@ The first pitch of this year’s College World Series will be thrown in Omaha Friday, but across the street from Charles Schwab Stadium another annual competition to raise money for food banks across the country is already underway. Rocco’s Pizza and Cantina was buzzing Thursday afternoon on the first day of the annual College World Series Jell-O shot challenge.

  By Jay Omar Verified · The Reader

  Jun. 14, 2024

• Hispanic maternal mortality rates remain unclear in parts of the Midwest

  By Jay Omar Verified| El Perico Verified Sophia Piral moved to Columbia, Missouri, from Guatemala in 2019 to study education policy. Her husband and three-month-old son came with her. “It was difficult in the sense that we were first-time parents and, I mean, there was a different culture, different food, different language,” Piral said. “We didn’t know exactly what to do, or who to ask for help.”Piral struggled to navigate the U.S. health care system.

  By Jay Omar Verified · El Perico

  May. 31, 2024

• Omaha bar’s ‘Jell-O Shot Challenge’ raises money for food banks across the country

  By Jay Omar Verified| The Reader@ The first pitch of this year’s College World Series will be thrown in Omaha Friday, but across the street from Charles Schwab Stadium another annual competition to raise money for food banks across the country is already underway. Rocco’s Pizza and Cantina was buzzing Thursday afternoon on the first day of the annual College World Series Jell-O shot challenge.

  By Jay Omar Verified · The Reader

  Jun. 14, 2024

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