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Mel Tucker's attorney: Michigan State doesn't have cause to fire suspended coach over phone sex

Sep. 25, 2023 19:14 PM EDT

Mel Tucker’s attorney said Monday that Michigan State does not have cause to fire its suspended football coach because Tucker did not “engage in unprofessional or unethical behavior” when he had phone sex with an activist and rape survivor who the university paid to speak to his team. ...

More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5

Sep. 25, 2023 18:20 PM EDT

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — It's a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano. Like a...

Texas football magazine Week 6 high school rankings

Sep. 25, 2023 14:02 PM EDT

The Week 6 high school rankings from Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine and TexasFootball.com, distributed by The Associated Press. CLASS 6A Rank School (Record) Week 5 Prv rank 1 Duncanville (4-0) W: Cedar Hill, 56-0 1 2 Galena...

Lecturers and staff at some UK universities stage a fresh round of strikes at the start of new term

Sep. 25, 2023 11:08 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Lecturers and other staff at some 40 U.K. universities staged a new round of strike action on Monday in a long-running dispute over pay and work conditions, disrupting college students as many turned up at campus for “freshers' week,” or their first week at university. ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bills to enhance the state's protections for LGBTQ+ people

Sep. 24, 2023 15:52 PM EDT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several bills Saturday aimed at bolstering the state's protections for LGBTQ+ people, a day after issuing a controversial veto that was criticized by advocates. The new laws include legislation that focuses on support...

Hazing lawsuit filed against University of Alabama fraternity

Sep. 24, 2023 12:36 PM EDT

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A student and his parents have filed a lawsuit against a University of Alabama fraternity, saying he suffered a traumatic brain injury while being hazed as a fraternity pledge earlier this year. The lawsuit filed last week accuses Sigma Alpha Epsilon...

All students injured in New York bus crash are expected to recover, superintendent says

Sep. 24, 2023 12:29 PM EDT

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — All the high school students who were injured in an upstate New York charter bus crash on the way to a band camp are expected to recover, according to their school superintendent. The bus, one of six carrying students from Farmingdale High School on Long...

A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. Now his family is suing Texas officials

Sep. 23, 2023 14:21 PM EDT

HOUSTON (AP) — The family of a Black high school student in Texas who was suspended over his dreadlocks filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Saturday against the state's governor and attorney general, alleging they failed to enforce a new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles. ...

Louisiana folklorist and Mississippi blues musician among 2023 National Heritage Fellows

Sep. 23, 2023 00:06 AM EDT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana folklorist Nick Spitzer and Mississippi blues musician R.L. Boyce are among nine 2023 National Heritage Fellows set to be celebrated later this month by the National Endowment for the Arts, one of the nation’s highest honors in the folk and traditional arts. ...

Federal investigators will look into fatal New York crash of a bus carrying high school students

Sep. 22, 2023 18:28 PM EDT

Federal investigators promised a thorough investigation into what caused a charter bus carrying a high school marching band to veer off a New York highway in a wreck that killed two adults and seriously injured other passengers. “Our goal is to find out what happened, why it...