Julie Davis

Threats and fears of violence prompted more than 100 Michigan school districts to cancel classes on Friday, three days after a shooter opened fire at a high school north of Detroit, killing four students.Many of the closures were a…
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The flashpoint was the “runaway slave” game during Black History Month.For many years, Black parents showed up en masse at school board meetings to object to the racially biased treatment of Black children in Loudoun County, a suburb in…
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NEW YORK (AP) — With an expanded definition to reflect the times, Merriam-Webster has declared an omnipresent truth as its 2021 word of the year: vaccine.“This was a word that was extremely high in our data every single day in 2021,” Peter…
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WESTLAKE, Ohio — Michael Johns doesn’t want to see Democrats “destroy our school system from the inside out,” which is why he ran for a seat this year on his local school board.“The majority of all the tax money goes to the schools ...…
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Six teenage students from Aurora Central High School in Colorado were hospitalized with injuries from a shooting at a nearby park on Monday. Multiple shots were fired in a drive-by shooting at Nome Park, with the suspect still at large,…
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An 89-year-old Rhode Island man has achieved a goal he spent two decades working toward and nearly a lifetime thinking about — earning his Ph.D. and becoming a physicist.Manfred Steiner recently defended his…
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A youth basketball player in Garden Grove, California, was left with a concussion after an opponent sucker-punched her ― and the injured girl’s mom claimed the attacker’s mother encouraged it.“I want the daughter and the mom held…
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A female high school ice hockey goalie in Pennsylvania is returning to the ice Monday for her first game since she was the target of vulgar chants from spectators that resulted in discipline by a school and a youth sports…
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Bomb threats were reported at three Ivy League universities on Sunday, with the alerts following similar threats made to Yale University and two Ohio universities in recent days.Portions of Cornell University in upstate New York and…
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What’s better than a surprise four-day weekend? How about a potentially lifesaving vaccination?Students in Chicago Public Schools will get both next week, when the district closes schools on Friday for what it’s calling Vaccination…
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