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Former inmates testified at a legislative hearing Thursday on conditions at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, the only women's prison in the state.

Eight staff members there have been criminally charged over sex abuse claims in the last 18 months.

There were many more, the women testified, telling the state Senate committee a "culture of silence" permeates the prison. »

The German government, the country's 16 states and its communities posted a budget surplus of €36.6 billion ($44.9 billion) in 2017, the National Statistics Office (Destatis) reported Friday, slightly revising an earlier estimate of €38.4 billion.

For the whole year, the economy expanded by 2.2 percent, marking the biggest annual growth since 2011.

Watch video 02:41 Share Germany runs short of transportation palettes Send Facebook Google+ Whatsapp Tumblr linkedin stumble Digg reddit Newsvine Permalink http://p.dw.com/p/2sJIC Germany runs short of transportation palettes. »

While the latter worried about how the changes applied to the news feed would affect advertising sales , publishers feared a negative impact on their own websites’ traffic.

Over the past decade, Facebook has been a significant driver of traffic to news websites, even beating Google as the main source of referral traffic for many of them.

Shareaholic attributes the drop to a number of earlier changes that Facebook made to its news feed last year and to a general change in user behavior on the platform. »

During the Civil War, at the request of the federal government, Harriet Tubman served with the U.S. Army in South Carolina, as a scout, spy, nurse and soldier.

On June 1, 1863, three gunboats set out on the Combahee River in South Carolina to begin the dangerous mission.

Relying on information Harriet and other scouts received from their sources about the Confederate positions, they began their strategic mission that resulted in over 700 slaves being freed. »