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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At the Westonaria agricultural park near Bekkersdal, east of Johannesburg, farm workers are busy tilling the soil and planting tomatoes and lettuce. Despite the hive of activity, ...

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YOUNGSTOWN — There’s a mantra Mackenzie Goranitis brings to her job every day: “a deaf person can do anything a hearing person can do … except hear.” She is the deaf and hard of hearing support ...

Outside the Washington School for the Deaf, those who are deaf and hard of hearing are a minority. But inside the Vancouver campus, they are the majority. So when the Legislature approved $49 million ...

Voyant Beauty agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a disability discrimination a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it fired an employee on her first day because she was deaf, ...

Patrick Graham, chair of NTID’s Department of Deaf Education, received the Founder's Award for recognition of his work in Deaf education at the National Deaf Education Conference on June 28 in ...

Lisa Peterson interviewed first at Kohl’s, then at TJ Maxx and Target. She applied for jobs at Raley’s, Safeway, Applebee’s, and Olive Garden, too. Once, she advanced to a second interview at the ...