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May 28 2023
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1 person dead after being struck by train in White County
One person died Saturday night in Beebe after being struck by a Union Pacific train, railroad officials confirmed. The incident occurred around 9 p.m. along Railroad Street but wasn't in a crossing, Union Pacific spokesperson Mike Jaixen said. The train crew was uninjured. Jaixen said Beebe police responded to the scene, where the department determined the person struck was deceased.
Arkansas Democrat-GazetteJul 28 2023
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Bank robbery suspect drops out of ceiling and into recycling bin before he's arrested, police say
A bank robbery suspect’s escape was thwarted when he fell into a recycling bin – right where police were waiting for him, authorities said. Police took the man, 27-year-old Tristan Heidl, into custody after he dropped down from the ceiling of a bank’s drive-thru into a recycling ban in Huron, Ohio, during the early hours of Wednesday, authorities said. Huron police officers responding to an
CNN DigitalApr 24 2023
Analysis
America’s Schools Are Worse Than Mediocre
Four decades after a landmark report warned of a ‘rising tide of mediocrity’ overtaking our schools, reform is needed more than ever.
‘A rising tide of mediocrity” — that’s how a group of education stakeholders and reformers described the state of America’s K–12 schools after an 18-month study. The group’s report, A Nation at Risk, noted that we might have viewed this mediocre education
National Review (News)Jul 31 2023
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End of an Era as Yellow Trucking Ceases Operations
Yellow Corp., whose trucks have been a fixture on American highways, is filing for bankruptcy and has ceased operations. “Yellow has historically proven that it could not manage itself despite billions of dollars in worker concessions and hundreds of millions in bailout funding from the federal government,” Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said in a statement, according to Reuters.
Western JournalJun 30 2023
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42 names added to list of Baltimore Archdiocese employees accused of sex abuse
BALTIMORE -- 42 names have been added to the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore's list of employees accused of sex abuse, according to the AOB. The AOB said the decision to add the names was also in acknowledgment of a recommendation by the Maryland Attorney General, that the Archdiocese expand its voluntary list, which was first published in 2002. This follows the April release of a 456-page
CBS News (Online)Jul 31 2023
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Yellow is shutting down after teetering on the brink of bankruptcy for years
One of America’s oldest and largest trucking companies, Yellow, is shutting operations, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday (July 30), citing internal notices sent to customers and employees. The Nashville-based company, which specializes in less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping where smaller cargos from multiple customers are combined on one trailer, hasn’t made a formal announcement yet
QuartzJul 24 2023
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Former Bennington residents accuse town of retaliation after complaints of racial profiling
Two former Bennington residents say town officials retaliated against them after the couple accused the police department of racial bias, according to a lawsuit filed on Friday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont. Cassandra Keating and Joel Fowler filed eight complaints in 2020 with the town alleging that Bennington Police targeted them based on "racial animus," and engaged in "
Vermont PublicJul 27 2023
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Toxic Electric Fire Engulfs Ship Near Dutch Coast; 1 Killed, Many Injured
By Stefan J. Bos, with additional reporting by Johan Th. Bos in the Netherlands AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (Worthy News) – Questions were raised Wednesday about the safety of electric cars that the European Union wants to see on roads across the 27-nation bloc as a deadly fire raged across a cargo ship carrying nearly 3,000 cars off the coast of the Dutch island of Ameland. At least ome one sailor
Worthy NewsJul 07 2023
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Oklahoma Schools Superintendent: Don't Teach That The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Was Caused By Racism - Joe.My.God.
Oklahoma’s far-right superintendent of public instruction thinks that schools should teach students about the Tulsa race massacre, so long as teachers don’t actually acknowledge that the white supremacist attack was about race. Walters held a public forum Thursday night, during which someone asked him how teaching about the Tulsa race massacre doesn’t violate his ban on CRT. “I would never
JoeMyGodJul 07 2023
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Oklahoma school head wants to leave race out of the Tulsa Race Massacre
Attacks on LGBTQ+ kids and on teachers as “groomers” and “indoctrinators” have mostly replaced right-wing hysteria about critical race theory, but Oklahoma state schools superintendent Ryan Walters was willing to show off his circa 2021 “I don’t know what CRT is but that won’t stop me from talking about it” chops on Thursday night. Walters took questions at the Norman Central Library, and
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