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Legislature Passes Bill Making Full-Day Kindergarten Available Statewide

Legislature Passes Bill Making Full-Day Kindergarten Available Statewide

(Salt Lake City, UT) — Full-day kindergarten is just a governor’s signature away from being available throughout Utah. The Senate passed the All-Day-K bill Wednesday on a 24-to-3 vote, sending the measure to Governor Spencer Cox. The House had previously approved the bill. The bill changes the state’s funding formulas […]

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Chicago police officer shot and killed while responding to call: Police

Chicago police officer shot and killed while responding to call: Police

WLS-TV (CHICAGO) — A Chicago police officer has been shot and killed while responding to a call about a person with a firearm, according to the Chicago Police Department. The officer was shot multiple times Wednesday while exchanging gunfire with a suspect, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said during a […]

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University of Idaho murders: Knife, Glock 22 gun among items seized from suspect’s family home

University of Idaho murders: Knife, Glock 22 gun among items seized from suspect’s family home

Monroe County Correctional Facility via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When the suspect in the University of Idaho murders was taken into custody, a knife and a Glock 22 gun were among the items seized by law enforcement at his family home, according to a newly released search warrant. Bryan […]

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Two Nebraska men allegedly killed bald eagle, planned to eat it: Officials

Two Nebraska men allegedly killed bald eagle, planned to eat it: Officials

File photo — Jacques Lafond/Getty Images (STANTON COUNTY, Neb.) — A Nebraska Sheriff’s office cited two men for allegedly hunting a bald eagle with the intention of cooking and eating the national bird. The Stanton County Sheriff’s Office said it responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle at the […]

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California declares emergency in counties buried by snow as latest storm moves east

California declares emergency in counties buried by snow as latest storm moves east

Daniela Simona Temneanu / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in more than a dozen counties as the typically warm state digs out from rare snowstorms. Wednesday’s emergency proclamation in the counties of Amador, Kern, Los Angeles, Madera, Mariposa, Mono, Nevada, […]

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South and Heartland brace for dangerous tornadoes

South and Heartland brace for dangerous tornadoes

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A cross-country storm that first brought blizzard conditions to the West is now taking aim on the Heartland and the South, where a dangerous severe weather outbreak is expected on Thursday. Cities in the in the bull’s-eye Thursday afternoon and evening are Dallas, Shreveport, Louisiana […]

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Pregnant passenger aboard Lufthansa flight that injured seven describes ‘”Final Destination” situation’

Pregnant passenger aboard Lufthansa flight that injured seven describes ‘”Final Destination” situation’

Courtesy of Ecaterina Fadhel (NEW YORK) — Susan Zimmerman was in the middle of dinner service aboard Lufthansa Flight 469 when turbulence hit. “It was all of a sudden we lifted up, and then we started dropping down really fast. It felt like about five seconds of freefall,” she said. […]

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Top NFL prospect Jalen Carter surrenders to police for charges in deadly crash

Top NFL prospect Jalen Carter surrenders to police for charges in deadly crash

Athens-Clarke County Police Department (ATHENS, Ga.) — University of Georgia football player Jalen Carter, a projected top pick in the NFL draft, has surrendered to police on charges of reckless driving and racing tied to a crash that killed a player and staff member in January, according to the Athens-Clarke […]

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Stabbing at California high school leaves one student dead, another wounded

Stabbing at California high school leaves one student dead, another wounded

mbbirdy/Getty Images (SANTA ROSA, Calif.) — One teenager was killed and another was wounded in a stabbing at a California high school on Wednesday, authorities said. The incident unfolded around 11 a.m. PT at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, about 55 miles north of San Francisco. The Santa Rosa […]

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Sixteen-year-old snowboarder lands history-making trick at world championships

Sixteen-year-old snowboarder lands history-making trick at world championships

Alexis Boichard/Agence Zoom/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Mia Brookes making history at the Snowboarding Freestyle World Championships! The 16-year-old freestyle snowboarder became the youngest ever snowboarding world champion in Bakuriani on Monday. But that’s not all. In order to clinch the gold medal […]

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