(WIB) – School resource officers (SROs) and zero-tolerance policies have long shouldered the blame for the disproportionate introduction of Black and disabled students into the school-to-prison ...

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(WIB) – Reflections on God are common right now. With 2024 “virtually certain” to be the hottest year on record, some may look at the symptoms of the climate crisis — the extreme heat, the fires and ...

Overview: After a family member reported it to social services, it still took nearly a year for police, social services and hospital authorities in Henrico County to pinpoint how a cluster of babies ...

New Sacramento State football coach Brennan Marion strode into his introductory press conference with his wife Madison at his side Wednesday afternoon. He wore a medium-grey suit over a buttoned-up ...

“Despite his tireless service he faces the threat of deportation —a showdown that continues to loom over his life and ministry,” wrote Rev. Cece Jones-Davis, founder of Justice for Julius and a Black ...

About 800 incarcerated firefighters are battling the unprecedented fires raging across Southern California, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. They join ...

(WIB) – With increasing worries about how technology affects young people, a new Pew Research Center survey shows that teens in the United States are as digitally connected as ever. Nearly half of ...

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Maurice Clark is homeless on the streets of Las Vegas. He took a survey that should help him get into housing, but he’s waiting. (Angela Hart/KFF Health News) LAS VEGAS (KFF) — Maurice Clark huddled ...

(WIB) – On Sunday, I saw a clip of Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington being baptized, dipped in the water, and becoming a licensed minister over the weekend. The clip showed him thanking God and ...

Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 1996. (AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File) LAS VEGAS (AP) — An ex-gang leader is seeking to have all the charges ...