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Massachusetts voters weigh ballot issues on union rights, wages and psychedelics
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts voters decide five ballot issues Tuesday, including giving union rights to drivers for ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft. Other questions would allow the use of certain plant-based psychedelics, eliminate the use of statewide tests as a high...
Student who wowed China in Alibaba math contest got help from teacher, organizers say
A vocational school student in China who wowed the public in June by finishing near the top in the preliminary round of a math contest was helped by her teacher in violation of the rules, the organizers said this week. An investigation found that the math teacher's assistance broke a...
Competing abortion proposals highlight a record number of ballot measures in Nebraska
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska will have a record number of petition-initiated measures on the ballot Tuesday, including two competing ones that address abortion rights. Nebraska is the first state to feature competing abortion amendments on the same ballot since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned...
Dave Campbell's Texas Football high school rankings for Week 11
The Week 11 high school rankings from Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine and TexasFootball.com, distributed by The Associated Press. CLASS 6A Rank School (Record) Week 10 Prv rank 1 Duncanville (8-0) W: Mesquite, 50-6 1 2 Galena...
Enrollment increases at most Mississippi universities but 3 campuses see decreases
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Overall enrollment increased at Mississippi's public universities this fall semester compared to the same time last year, although three campuses saw a decrease. The state Institutions of Higher Learning on Monday released enrollment figures that were...
Family pleaded to have assault rifle seized before deadly school shooting. Officers had few options
Orlando Harris’ family pleaded with Missouri police to confiscate the 19-year-old’s bullet-proof vest, ammunition and AR-15-style rifle. They knew his mental health was fragile after more than one suicide attempt. But the best officers could do in a state with some of the most expansive gun...
Inside a 1760 schoolhouse for Black children is a complicated history of slavery and resilience
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a curriculum that justified slavery. The museum, Colonial Williamsburg, also...
Local school staple 'Lost on a Mountain in Maine' from 1939 hits the big screen nationwide
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week in 1939 after climbing the state’s tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the story. Opening in 650 movie theaters on Friday, “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” tells...
Minnesota farm town reshaped by migrants wrestles with real changes beyond the political vitriol
WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Two Guatemalans wearing traditional embroidered skirts bought coconut boba teas on an October afternoon at the bustling downtown Asian market. In decades past, the building served as this rural town’s hardware store where farmers shopped for hammers, nuts and bolts. ...
Jodi Picoult's 'Nineteen Minutes' tops PEN America of books banned in schools
NEW YORK (AP) — Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Minutes," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the books most banned in schools. “Not only was it recommended for young adults to read,...
