As someone with a social work background as well as many years of working with struggling youth in a number of settings, I’d highly recommend Landon and Amaria as a winning young couple to all middle school and high school audiences as well as to older teens and young adults in their 20’s – even beyond!

During the morning of June 20, 2023, Steve encountered a gentleman whom he had met earlier in the year at the HumanKind Ministries Homeless Shelter in Wichita, Kansas, where Steve had been a volunteer. The gentleman was Erwin Frankfort, who was walking a bicycle and whose face showed obvious distress.

Branden Colvin Jr.’s personal world literally came crashing down on Sunday, May 28, 2023, when a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa partially collapsed.

A school custodian in Hampden, Maine is also the winning part-time coach of his school’s elementary and middle school chess teams.  Appropriately, his name is David Bishop, and his teams are sweeping the competition.  His students agree that their goal is a national championship

On May 19, 2023, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into State law a Judicial and Public Safety bill (Senate File 2909) that includes legislation banning no-knock search warrants throughout Minnesota.

A ban on nearly all no-knock warrants continues to move towards the desk of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz with a push from the family of Amir Locke, a victim of such a warrant.