内容摘要：NEW YORK (AP) — Weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes helped define the look and feel of 20th century luxury, from first-class airline seats to movie backdrops, hotel suites to bathing suits, metallic wallpaper to car upholstery.

NEW YORK (AP) — Weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes helped define the look and feel of 20th century luxury, from first-class airline seats to movie backdrops, hotel suites to bathing suits, metallic wallpaper to car upholstery.

But the forced leave and docked pay left her reeling. She said she’s living paycheck to paycheck and wonders how she’ll pay the bills — her daughter’s school supplies, lunches, tennis shoes.“I have a daughter to keep afloat,” she said. “It’s not like I have the option to wait and pay for things, for food.”

Associated Press videojournalist Martín Silva Rey contributed to this report from Cuauhtemoc, Mexico.TULSA, Okla. (AP) — At the site ofa century ago, where murals memorialize a once-thriving “

,” one African American mother strives to keep others from dying as they try to bring new life into the world.Black women are more than three times as likely to

as white women in Oklahoma, which consistently ranks among the worst states in the nation for maternal mortality.

“Tulsa is suffering,” said Corrina Jackson, who heads up a local version of the federal Healthy Start program, coordinating needed care and helping women through their pregnancies. “We’re talking about lives here.”Emergency calls “are for situations where minutes matter and lives are at risk,” said William Lee, assistant operations director at South Western Ambulance. “Inappropriate calls tie up our emergency lines and divert valuable resources away from those in genuine need.”

Worrall was gobsmacked the gator caller thought paramedics were the panacea for his problem.“We could be on the phone to somebody with the alligator and the next call I take could be a cardiac arrest and they’ve had to wait in line for the call to be answered,” she said. “And we could have lost significant time getting hands on chest to do CPR.”

When she got off the phone, she took a short break to share the story with her amused colleagues.“We did have a little chat about that and, yeah, back to work I went,” she said. “On to the next call.”