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Month: April 2023

Bans on trans student athletes would be barred under proposed Title IX changes

Bans on trans student athletes would be barred under proposed Title IX changes

C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Education on Thursday announced a proposed change to Title IX to prohibit categorical bans on transgender student athletes. If adopted as a rule, the change would make it illegal for schools or universities to bar transgender student athletes […]

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Missing 6-year-old Texas boy believed to be dead, warrant out for mother’s arrest: Police

Missing 6-year-old Texas boy believed to be dead, warrant out for mother’s arrest: Police

Federico Candoni / EyeEm / Getty Images (EVERMAN, Texas) — The search for a missing 6-year-old Texas boy who hasn’t been seen since October is now a death investigation, police said Thursday, while vowing to find his body. Texas authorities issued an endangered missing person alert late last month for […]

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Prep Sports Roundup: 4/6

Prep Sports Roundup: 4/6

Baseball 2A West BEAVER, Utah-Davin Orton drove in three runs and the Beaver Beavers pounded Water Canyon 17-0 in 2A West baseball action Thursday. Brayden Evans and Tavyn Hollingshead each added 2 more RBI in victory for the Beavers. Tyten Fails’ four strikeouts in two innings of work earned him […]

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USU Men Basketball’s Steven Ashworth Declares For Transfer Portal

USU Men Basketball’s Steven Ashworth Declares For Transfer Portal

LOGAN, Utah-Thursday, Utah State men’s basketball junior guard Steven Ashworth declared for the transfer portal per his Twitter account. pic.twitter.com/IWEjV5rntg — Steven Ashworth (@stevenAsh_15) April 6, 2023 This past season, Ashworth averaged 16.2 points and 4.5 assists per game for the Aggies. Ashworth, a former Lone Peak High School star […]

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Church child sex abuse allegations from more than 600 victims detailed in new report

Church child sex abuse allegations from more than 600 victims detailed in new report

Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images (BALTIMORE, Md.) — More than 150 priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore are accused of sexually abusing more than 600 children in a newly released report from Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown. The report, which examined thousands of documents […]

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Fear, grief after killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee: ‘Everybody is talking about it’

Fear, grief after killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee: ‘Everybody is talking about it’

Kali9/Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — A day after Cash App Founder Bob Lee was killed in San Francisco, a customer walked into a cafe blocks away from the crime scene and began to cry. “She was looking at our pastry case and I did my normal, ‘Hey how is it […]

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Nashville mayor calls on lawmakers to enact risk protection laws, act on gun safety

Nashville mayor calls on lawmakers to enact risk protection laws, act on gun safety

JOHN AMIS/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Nashville, Tennessee, Mayor John Cooper publicly called on lawmakers to pass an extreme risk protection law and take action on gun safety one week after a shooter killed six people at a local private school. Tennessee has “some of the weakest […]

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Uvalde student survivors receive Kid Hero Award honor

Uvalde student survivors receive Kid Hero Award honor

Stephanie Mendez/ABC News (TEXAS) — As Miah Cerrillo and Khloie Torres made their way to the stage at the Galveston Island Ballroom in Galveston Texas, the entire convention erupted in a standing ovation. The two 11-year-old students—who called 911 during the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas—were […]

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‘Vicious cycle’: Inside the police recruiting crunch with resignations on the rise

‘Vicious cycle’: Inside the police recruiting crunch with resignations on the rise

East Cleveland Police Department/Facebook (NEW YORK) — Police departments across the country are facing a “vicious cycle” of retirements, resignations, and fewer hires, according to policing experts, leaving the communities they protect with understaffed departments and potentially underqualified officers. A survey released on April 1 from the Police Executive Research […]

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New DOJ chief talks importance of community policing

New DOJ chief talks importance of community policing

Hugh T. Clements/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The new director of a Department of Justice office that financially supports police departments nationwide says that community engagement is what defines successful law enforcement. And he knows from experience. Before being chosen to head the Community Oriented Policing Services within the DOJ, Hugh […]

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