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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A television station has reported that a school district in West Virginia reached settlements totaling $11 million in lawsuits involving a teacher who abused special education students in her classroom. WCHS-TV reported Monday that a settlement was reached in seven lawsuits against Nancy Boggs and the Kanawha County Board of Education.
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Efforts to help Haitians survive the gang violence swamping their nation suffered a grave blow with the kidnapping of an American nurse from New Hampshire and her young daughter, who remained missing Tuesday. Around 200 Haitians had marched in their nation’s capital to
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer After starting the season with six straight losses, it was easy to think that the Minnesota Lynx were on their way to a second consecutive appearance in the WNBA draft lottery. The Lynx had turned it around, winning three straight, including impressive road victories over New York and Connecticut
Continue ReadingTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who made history as the first Black woman to serve as speaker of the state Assembly, died Tuesday. She was 71. Oliver served as Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s top deputy, stepping in for him while the governor was out of state and also overseeing the
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer There are now more golden lion tamarins bounding between branches in the Brazilian rainforest than at any time since efforts to save the species started in the 1970s, a new survey reveals. Once on the brink of extinction, with only about 200 animals in the wild, the population has
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife officials released a revised draft wolf management plan Tuesday that recommends holding the statewide population at around 1,000 animals, a concession to conservatives looking for a hard limit. The Department of Natural Resources adopted a wolf management plan in 1999 that calls for capping
Continue ReadingBy Kit Maher and Shawna Mizelle, CNN (CNN) — Ron DeSantis on Tuesday defended his record delivering “pro-life protections” as Florida governor following criticism from the Susan B. Anthony anti-abortion group over his reluctance to embrace a national ban. DeSantis, who sought to burnish his conservative bona fides earlier this year when he signed a
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS has threatened the use of force if the ousted president of Niger is not reinstated within one week, but how the body would carry out the threat remains unclear. Analysts say the success of such an intervention would depend
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Voyager mission team at NASA has been able to detect a signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft, which has been operating for nearly 46 years. “We enlisted the help of the (Deep Space Network) and Radio Science groups to help to see if we
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un zoológico del este de China desmintió las insinuaciones de que algunos de sus osos son personas disfrazadas, después de que se hicieran virales unos videos de un oso solar malayo que se levantaba sobre sus patas traseras y parecía increíblemente humano, alimentando rumores y teorías conspirativas en las redes
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have accused Ukraine in yet another drone attack on Moscow and its surroundings. One of the drones on Tuesday hit the same building in the capital that was damaged by a drone in a similar attack Sunday. An adviser to Ukrainian
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin will not seek to challenge Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin for her US Senate seat next year, the second congressional Republican in recent weeks to pass on a bid in the crucial swing state. Tiffany said he instead plans to run for reelection in
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — A massive fire burning across both California and Nevada is generating extreme fire behavior, spawning “fire whirls” and creating dangerous conditions for firefighters, authorities said. The fire, dubbed the York Fire, which is California’s largest fire of the year, has consumed 80,000 acres as of Tuesday morning. The blaze
Continue ReadingThe organizers of the famous heavy metal music festival of Wacken in northern Germany have issued a travel ban for visitors with vehicles due to the muddy terrain of the festival grounds. They said Tuesday that because of heavy rain on Monday and before, the camping areas, the event grounds and access roads, were in
Continue ReadingDAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s health agency says three men killed in a downtown Davenport apartment building collapse more than two months ago died of blunt-force injuries and asphyxiation. The finding released Monday by the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services declared the deaths of 42-year-old Branden Colvin Sr., 51-year-old Ryan Hitchcock and 60-year-old
Continue Reading By Virginia Langmaid, CNN (CNN) — Northwestern University announced Tuesday an independent review of the school’s accountability mechanisms and athletics department culture, as the university faces several lawsuits alleging hazing within its football program. The review, which will be led by former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, will “examine the culture of Northwestern Athletics to
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Dickens Click here for updates on this story SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Most of the tents are gone on 16th Street and National Avenue. ABC 10News Anchor Aaron Dickens spoke to a woman who was the only one left on the block. “They can arrest me; that is fine. They are going to
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The deaths of three U.S. Marines who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning in a parked car at a North Carolina gas station have raised questions about how the situation could happen outdoors. Deputies from the Pender County Sheriff’s Office had found the men unresponsive in
Continue ReadingBy HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Organizers of a Wisconsin aircraft convention say the daughter of two-time Super Bowl winner Bruce Collie was killed in a crash this weekend. Devyn Reiley and her co-pilot are among the four people who died in two separate crashes. Her World War II-era plane
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — A French military transport plane carrying Europeans from Niger arrived in Paris Wednesday, in the first such evacuation flight since mutinous soldiers ousted the country’s democratically elected president nearly a week ago and shut its borders. France, Italy and Spain all announced evacuations from Niger for
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