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Leonard, LeBron, Davis lead Team LeBron over Team Giannis
CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on Sunday night's NBA All-Star Game (all times local): 10:35 p.m. Kawhi Leonard scored 30, LeBron James scored 23 and Chicago product Anthony Davis finished with 20 points after hitting the winning free throw to lift Team LeBron to a 157-155 victory over Team Giannis in the...
Teen kidnapped by teacher settles suit with school for $650K
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A lawsuit has been settled between a Tennessee school district and a former student who was kidnapped by a teacher when she was 15. Tad Cummins sparked a 39-day nationwide manhunt when he fled the state with the former Culleoka Unit School student on March, 13, 2017. They were...
Chicago teacher removed during probe of 'go back' anthem row
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago teacher accused of telling a Hispanic student she should go back to her own country after she refused to stand for the national anthem has been removed from the classroom while district officials investigate, the school's principal said. Students at Senn High School on the...
Teacher cleared for lesson that had students act as slaves
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey school district has cleared a teacher of wrongdoing for having students pretend to be slaves as part of a history lesson. A spokesman for Toms River Regional School District said in a statement issued late Thursday that it was not the intention of eighth-grade social...
Teacher investigated for telling students to act as slaves
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey school district is investigating a teacher's history lesson that had students pretend to be slaves, officials said. According to social media posts by a student in the class, 8th-grade social studies teacher Lawrence Cuneo forced Toms River Intermediate School students...
Police: Father storms onto bus with pistol in Missouri
BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) — A father who was upset that a student had been fighting with one of his children stormed onto a middle school bus with a loaded pistol in suburban St. Louis and threatened everyone onboard, authorities say. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Christian Goodson was charged...
Students: Teacher told classmate to leave US for anthem
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Public Schools says it has launched an investigation after four students complained that a teacher told a Hispanic student she should go back to her own country because she didn't stand during the national anthem. The students at Senn High School on the city's North Side said they...
Appeals court supports Oregon school's transgender policy
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A school district near the Oregon state capital can allow transgender students to use locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender they identify with instead of their birth gender, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesdays. Some parents and students at a high school in Dallas, Oregon, had...
Suit: District wrong to punish students over racist posts
SALINE, Mich. (AP) — Four students in a southeastern Michigan town sued their school district over discipline they received in the wake of racist social media posts directed at black students. The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday against Saline Area Schools, alleged district officials lacked authority to...
Done with homework: More than 200 schools in UAE cancel it
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Students at more than 250 government-run schools in the United Arab Emirates are officially done with homework. The local National newspaper reports that, starting next week, the Education Ministry is abolishing homework in public schools in the emirates of Dubai and Abu...
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