White House deputy chief receiving millions from Fox

White House deputy chief receiving millions from Fox

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Bill Shine has received millions of dollars in severance from Fox News Channel’s parent company and is owed millions more, a new financial disclosure report shows.

The report released Friday shows that Shine received $8.4 million in severance pay from 21st Century Fox after he left in May 2017. He’ll also receive bonus and options payments in 2018 and 2019 amounting to $7 million for the two years combined. The agreement is set to expire May 1, 2019.

Shine joined the Trump administration earlier this year. He resigned his position as co-president of Fox News amid questions over his handling of sexual harassment and discrimination allegations that led to the departures of CEO Roger Ailes, a Warren native, and Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly.

Kim Porter’s family remember her as ‘a special angel’

NEW YORK

The family of Kim Porter released a statement honoring her life a day after Thanksgiving, saying “Although we’ve lost our best friend, God has gained a special angel and we know she is watching over us.”

Porter, a former model and actress who was also the longtime former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs, died unexpectedly last week at age 47. Authorities haven’t given a cause.

Porter was the mother of three of Combs’ children. Porter also has a son, actor-singer Quincy Brown, from a previous relationship with R&B singer Al B. Sure!

Her funeral will take place today at Cascade Hills Church in Columbus, Ga.

1 of last survivors of 1921 Tulsa race riot dies at 103

OKLAHOMA CITY

One of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race riot, one of the worst race riots in U.S. history, has died at age 103.

Olivia Hooker was 6 years old when the late-spring riot destroyed much of a Tulsa neighborhood that had been known as “Black Wall Street.” She told National Public Radio in an interview this year that she hid under a table as a mob of torch-carrying people destroyed her family’s home.

The violence began after a black man allegedly assaulted a white woman in an elevator. The number of deaths was never confirmed and varies from about three dozen to 300.

Hooker’s goddaughter, Janis Porter, says her godmother died Wednesday at their home in White Plains, N.Y. Porter didn’t provide a cause of death.

Associated Press