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She was 26 and lived in Owings Mills.
"Her death was accidental. She had a pre-existing heart condition and had taken her medication. Last Friday evening, she was out with friends socializing and drank some alcohol, and on Saturday morning she was found dead," said her mother, Dr. Kibibi Mack-Shelton of Owings Mills.
"We are waiting for the coroner's report who initially said that her death was probably caused by a combination of medication and alcohol."
Abikanile Nayo Mack-Williams was born in Norfolk, Va., and spent her early years in Boston before moving to Columbia in 1996.
Ms. Mack-Williams was a 2004 graduate of Wilde Lake High School, where she was a member of the National Honor Society and a cheerleader and co-captain of the squad. She was active in student government.
Ms. Mack-Williams attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., for a year before enrolling at the University of Maryland, College Park, from which she earned a bachelor's degree in 2008 with honors. She earned a law degree from Howard University in 2011.
During her law school years, Ms. Mack-Williams participated in the Criminal Justice Clinic in Washington as a student attorney and was treasurer for the Howard Business Law Society.
She clerked for Chief Judge Robert M. Bell of the Maryland Court of Appeals from 2011 to 2012 and then joined the public defender's office in Baltimore's Eastside District Court in March.
"She was a valued member of this office," said a news release from the Eastside District Court announcing her death. "She was well-liked and respected by her co-workers, clients and judges alike."
Ms. Mack-Williams was active in My Sister's Circle and enjoyed traveling to Ghana, West Africa, to visit her father. She was also an animal lover and a Dallas Cowboys fan.
"Though her life was shortened, Bika's legacy of achieving excellence in her pursuits can only be matched with her hilariously flippant sense of humor, her fun-loving personality, her refreshing candor, and her well-roundedness as a person," said a sister, Dr. Yakini Etheridge of New York City.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Walker Memorial Baptist Church, 2020 13th St. N.W., Washington.
In addition to her mother and sister, Ms. Mack-Williams is survived by her father, Dr. Michael W. Williams of Ghana; two other sisters, Nabulungi Anderson of Glendale, Calif., and Sibongile Mack-Williams of Washington; her stepfather, Ronald Shelton of Owings Mills; two stepsisters, Abena Williams and Akua Williams, bo...
Barely twice the size of his squeeze box and not yet able to read, Hayes is already a budding sensation who has performed on one CD, La Musique des Jeunes Pour l’ Amour des Vieux (Music by the Young for Love of the Old), and has attracted a growing list of superstar followers. Rosie O’Donnell is a fan—she had Hayes on ...
He always has been. “When he was just learning to walk,” says Lynette, 35, a schoolteacher, “he’d hold on to the furniture and rock back and forth in time with the music and say, ‘Dickie, dickie, dickie.’ ” By 2, Hayes already had become obsessed with the accordion—”He’d imitate playing it with paper plates, Tupperware...
One night actor Robert Duvall happened to be dining at Mulatte’s during one of Hayes’s performances. Duvall, who was in town scouting locations for his upcoming film The Apostle, was so impressed that he offered the boy a small, two-scene role in the movie, portraying an accordion player in a church choir.
Sales of newly built, single-family homes declined 2.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 464,000 units in November from an upwardly revised strong pace of 474,000 units in the previous month, according to data released today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Burea...
"This figure is consistent with NAHB's member surveys, which show increasing confidence in the market," said Rick Judson, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). "Meanwhile, the very low supply of new homes on the market and tight credit conditions for home buyers show that builders are still caut...
"The previous three months for new-home sales have all been revised up, and the final quarter of 2013 is shaping up to be the best quarter since the second quarter of 2008," said NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe. "Historically low interest rates, affordable home prices and a healing economy are bringing buyers back int...
The West region showed improvement, with an increases of 15.2 percent. The South posted a 9.1 percent decline.
The inventory of new homes for sale declined to 167,000 units in November, which is a 4.3-month supply at the current sales pace.
Mar. 25, 2017, 5:28 p.m.
President Trump urged the public to watch an upcoming episode of Fox News' "Justice with Judge Jeanine."
It wasn't immediately clear what was behind the president's promotion.
Earlier in the day, Trump favorite "Fox & Friends" had teased the "Judge Jeanine" episode, saying it would reveal "stunning new details" about Trump's claim that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones, according to a tweet from Business Insider's Oliver Darcy.
Mar. 25, 2017, 4:57 p.m.
Trump thanked his supporters Saturday for organizing a series of "Make America Great Again" rallies across the country.
Thanks you for all of the Trump Rallies today. Amazing support. We will all MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Some of the rallies saw scuffles between Trump supporters and those who came to demonstrate against them.
In Providence, R.I., police had to form a line separating pro- and anti-Trump factions when a shoving match broke out, according to the Providence Journal.
Mar. 25, 2017, 4:24 p.m.
President Trump tweeted about a meeting he held with 25 Medal of Honor recipients the day before.
The Medal of Honor is the nation’s highest military decoration.
Medal of Honor Day was established by Congress in 1990 and is observed on March 25.
Mar. 24, 2017, 9:06 p.m.
Mar. 24, 2017, 5:20 p.m.
President Trump pressured members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus to support the GOP's Affordable Care Act overhaul, which included a provision blocking federal payments to Planned Parenthood for a year.
The day before, GOP leaders were forced to abandon a vote on the bill after conservatives, led by the Freedom Caucus, argued it didn't go far enough in gutting Obamacare. Meanwhile, centrist Republicans worried the bill would have left too many constituents without healthcare.
Hours after Trump's tweet, he asked House Speaker Paul D. Ryan to again postpone a vote on the legislation.
Mar. 24, 2017, 3:41 p.m.
President Trump tweeted that it was "a great day for American jobs" as he announced that his administration had issued a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Although Trump portrayed the pipeline as a done deal, its future remains uncertain. It faces difficult economic issues as well as a newly revived protest movement dedicated to stopping it.
Already, the White House has retreated from a demand that the builders of the pipeline use American steel — a provision that Trump announced with considerable fanfare.
Mar. 24, 2017, 3:20 p.m.
President Trump tweeted a video of his announcement that cable-TV and Internet service provider Charter Communications made a commitment to invest $25 billion on broadband infrastructure and hire 20,000 new U.S. employees over the next four years.
Charter had made the hiring promise in 2015 when it was purchasing Time Warner Cable. The new development was the time period in which it would occur.
Nevertheless, Trump indicated the job creation was triggered by his election.
Mar. 23, 2017, 9:14 p.m.
His criticism of news coverage of the FBI's investigation into whether members of his campaign team coordinated with Russians during the election.
His condolences to those affected by a deadly attack outside the British Parliament.
The GOP's bill to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, which he urged the public to support.
A meeting with trucking industry representatives to discuss healthcare.
Mar. 23, 2017, 4:15 p.m.
President Trump welcomed truck drivers and trucking company executives to the White House for a listening session on how healthcare legislation has affected the industry.
Shortly after the meeting, House GOP leaders postponed a vote on their bill to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, as it became evident that there wasn't enough support to pass it.
Mar. 23, 2017, 3:43 p.m.
President Trump criticized "totally biased and fake news reports of the so-called Russia story," singling out reports on NBC and ABC.
The FBI director said earlier in the week that there is an investigation underway into whether Trump's campaign associates coordinated with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election. The president has refused to acknowledge the investigation, dismissed it as fake news and blamed it on Democr...
Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday that he had seen "more than circumstantial evidence" that Trump associates colluded with Russia.
Rising unemployment in Singapore has rekindled a debate on the presence of about 800,000 foreigner workers in the city-state in recent weeks.
A report published by two university economists said foreign workers took three of every four jobs created between 1997 and 2002.
The study was front page news and sparked an angry denial from the government.
Acting manpower minister Ng Eng Hen said that in reality nine out of 10 new jobs during this period had gone to Singaporeans.
The economists later admitted they had made an "honest error".
The controversy is likely to persist as questions remain over Singapore's policy of openness towards foreign workers, who account for about 24 percent of the work force.
Unemployment is at 4.5 percent - the highest since a recession in the 1980s - and workers currently employed are being asked to agree to steep wage cuts as the economy struggles to emerge from the impact of SARS and a global economic slowdown.
The economists' report could not have come at a worse time for Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, according to Song Seng Wun, a regional economist with GK Goh brokerage.
Government figures that Singaporeans took 90 percent of jobs created between 1997 and 2002 "may not be taken as gospel truth by the man on the street," Song said.
"Unless the people are locked up behind bars, they can see for themselves how many foreigners are here in Singapore."
Foreigners manage many top companies here, while labourers from China and Bangladesh are the mainstays of the construction industry.
Professionals, engineers and architects from Malaysia, the Philippines and other countries are fixtures in offices.
"Unless the people are locked up behind bars, they can see for themselves how many foreigners are here in Singapore"
Regional economist with GK Goh brokerage.
During a recent dialogue, Singapore's founding father and current senior minister, Lee Kuan Yew, was asked by a trade unionist why some Singaporeans working for a local firm were retrenched, while Filipinos receiving higher salaries were retained.
"Our boys served their national service," the 30 months of military training mandatory for all able-bodied Singaporean men, the interlocutor emphasised.
But about 41 percent of Singapore's gross domestic product growth in the 1990s came from foreign workers, according to a Ministry of Trade and Industry report in 2001.
Without overseas workers, Singapore could not have achieved an average quarterly growth of 7.8 percent during the period, said the report cited by the Straits Times on Saturday.
The government's employment policy has long won support from the international community and analysts have warned backtracking on the open-door attitude to foreigners would hurt Singapore's economy.
"Tightening restrictions on foreign workers could prove counterproductive," said Michael Backman, an Australian economist, author and commentator on Asian political and economic affairs.
"Foreign workers attract investment to Singapore and help to promote trade. Rather than take jobs from Singaporeans it's quite possible that their presence helps to create jobs."
In the end, companies will continue to hire foreigners if they find them cheaper.
"A lot of this involves the economics of trying to save costs," said Nizam Idris, a regional economist with research house IDEAglobal.
"If it means employing cheaper foreign labour so be it."
THE GOAL of a new campaign called Volunteers’ Trace is to follow volunteering activities and provide a message about them.
The campaign, organised by the Inex Slovakia civic association, strives to show the enthusiasm of volunteers and attract others – especially young people – to become volunteers.
“We also want to encourage joining volunteering projects worldwide,” Peter Husák of Inex Slovakia told the TASR newswire. He added that anyone can become a volunteer, regardless of the place, country, age or length of the activity. The crucial thing is to engage and feel like changing something.
People can leave their volunteering trace anywhere. In December, Inex Slovakia will publish the map on its website, which will show where the traces of volunteering have been left. In the end, the civic association will select three people involved in volunteering for awards.
“By the end of year, we will know how many people were involved and how many have helped to change the world for better through volunteering,” Husák added.
Emily Blackwood is an editor at YourTango who covers pop culture, true crime, dating, relationships and everything in between. Every Wednesday at 7:20 p.m. you can ask her any and all questions about self-love, dating, and relationships LIVE on YourTango’s Facebook page. You can follow her on Instagram, Twitter or on h...
Police say a 36-year-old woman has died after falling off a cliff in Saint John.
The Saint John Police Force received a 911 call at around 12:20 a.m. Saturday about a woman and a man who fell off a cliff in a gravel pit in the Golden Grove Road area.
They say the woman died as a result of her injuries and a man, 39, remains in stable condition in hospital.
Police say they believe the fall was an accident, but the matter remains under investigation by the force's major crime unit.
Eye emergencies can be alarming. With blurred vision or foreign objects stuck in your eye, you may think you need to run to the hospital. But as Malika Karim reports, there is another option for medical treatment.
UFC fighters and NFL cheerleaders could not be more different. But look at their job descriptions, and they have something in common: Both are classified as independent contractors. Not as employees.
The distinction is significant. It means that neither fighters nor cheerleaders get the guaranteed pay and benefits that employees are entitled to under the law.
UFC fighters sign individual contracts with the company that only cover certain fights. Those deals vary in terms of how much individuals are guaranteed to make for fighting, and how much they'll get if they win. The contracts also include limited health insurance.
But that means there are large chunks of time when the fighters are unpaid and uninsured.
In contrast, pros within the NFL and NBA are employees of a particular team through the length of their contracts, which typically last for a season or more, and always cover all of the extra events that they have to attend.
While the NFL cheerleaders are fighting just to make minimum wage, some of the top UFC fighters can make hundreds of thousands of dollars -- sometimes even millions -- for winning a bout. But most of the fighters make very little unless they win.

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