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NEWPORT NEWS, VA — The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher at a Virginia elementary school earlier this year was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in prison for using marijuana while owning a gun, according to an Associated Press report. Deja Taylor’s son took her handgun to school and shot teacher Abigail Zwerner in her first-grade classroom at Richneck Elementary School.

New state data shows Alaska’s overall crime rate continues to fall, but some forms of violent crime, including murder, are up. The Alaska Department of Public Safety’s annual Crime in Alaska report, released last week, analyzed data from 2022 submitted by police agencies around the state. This year, 30 Alaska police agencies representing 99.3% of Alaska’s population submitted information about

A 41-year-old man was arrested following the death of a woman in Oregon City, police said. Officers arrived in the 13400 block of Squire Drive in Oregon City on Monday afternoon to find the woman dead in a home. They arrested Anthony Wessel, and he was booked into Clackamas County Jail on a possible second-degree murder charge, police said. Police have not yet released the name of the deceased

The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday by USA Today.