Mario Jackson is a Cincinnati firefighter, a paramedic and now also a children’s book author. Jackson says “Nya the Great and Her Visit to the Fire House” is aimed at inspiring young girls. “I realized that there isn’t a lot of representation for women, especially women of color, in jobs that are usually male-dominated,” he told us on Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 4/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIX-TV FOX 19 Cincinnati

As a demographer — someone who studies how human populations grow and change — UCLA professor of sociology Patrick Heuveline typically spends time each year traveling around the world, talking to people about their hopes for their families and their dreams for the future. “Demography is obviously all about numbers — but at its core, it’s about people’s lives,” he said.
- PUB DATE: 4/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: UCLA Newsroom

VIDEO: A local soccer team being thanked after rushing to help a family during a house fire. About players of the women's soccer team from Yakima valley college who happened to be at the right place and the right time. "I was jogging backwards," said Brianna Garfias, Yakima Valley College play soccer.
- PUB DATE: 4/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS/CW+ 29 Yakima

Investigators say they have determined that the fire at a Union Gap home that led to the deaths of 2 people was intentionally set, and the deaths are being investigated as homicides. Union Gap Police and Fire responded to the house fire at the 2200 block of S 5th Avenue early Sunday morning. The next day, investigators discovered two bodies in the burnt home.
- PUB DATE: 4/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

A 21-year old driver allegedly crossed the median on I-182 in Pasco Thursday morning about 11:00 a.m. causing a fiery head-on collision that sent the driver and a victim, a 35-year old woman, to the hospital and closed a westbound lane for a big chunk of midday. Commuters had to rubberneck their way around yet another wrong way wreck as officials from the Washington State Patrol (WSP) painstakingly conducted their investigation.
- PUB DATE: 4/1/2021 8:30:42 PM - SOURCE: KXRX-FM 97.1