OREM, Utah (AP) — As a group of boys at a Utah high school changed Tuesday morning into gym clothes for physical education class, a straight-A student pulled out a knife in the locker room and stabbed five of his classmates, sending the injured running for their lives and covered in blood, police said. The 16-year-old … Continue reading
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police chief agreed Friday to hold monthly meetings with a group of black high school students who had planned a demonstration protesting an officer’s fatal shooting of a black man and racist text messages distributed by students at another school. Superintendent Eddie Johnson met with the group of public school students, the principal of a Catholic school where students distributed … Continue reading
CINCINNATI (AP) — Jurors on Friday told a judge they can’t reach a decision after three days of deliberations in the murder trial of a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man during a traffic stop. The judge told them to keep deliberating. The jurors said they couldn’t come to a unanimous … Continue reading
CHICAGO (AP) — A Catholic high school on Chicago’s South Side canceled Friday classes amid concern about a demonstration, which was later postponed, to protest the fatal police shooting of a black man and a series of racially charged text messages from students. Eva Lewis, who helped organize the Black Lives Matter demonstration planned by youth in the Mount … Continue reading
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia Tech is honoring its former president Charles W. Steger by naming a building after him on the school’s Blacksburg campus. The school said in a statement that it will dedicate the building Friday. The building that will become known as Steger Hall consists of two separately constructed parts of a … Continue reading
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Donald Trump’s attorneys on Thursday agreed to enter settlement talks in a class-action fraud lawsuit involving the president-elect and his now-defunct Trump University, raising the possibility of a quick end to the 6 ½-year-old case just before it goes to trial. Daniel Petrocelli, Trump’s lead attorney on the case, also asked … Continue reading
HELSINKI (AP) — Prosecutors say a 21-year-old former student was planning a school shooting in central Finland that would kill at least 40 students. Prosecutor Eija Velitski says the woman had agreed to buy handguns, automatic weapons and hand grenades, among others things, from a 42-year-old-male accomplice who is also charged in the trial that started Friday at … Continue reading
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia Tech President Timothy Sands is calling on the university to double its enrollment of underrepresented minority groups over the next six years. The Roanoke Times reports (http://bit.ly/2fPpaTm) that currently, about 12 percent of Tech’s students are black, Hispanic or of Pacific Islander descent. Sands said during a board of visitors meeting Monday … Continue reading
CINCINNATI (AP) — The trial of a white University of Cincinnati police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black motorist has resumed after juror concerns over their privacy interrupted the last court session. The trial of former officer Ray Tensing resumed Monday after the judge announced one of four alternate jurors withdrew over privacy concerns. … Continue reading
Law School Dean Michael Moffitt said the unidentified professor has been placed on administrative leave pending the completion of a civil rights investigation, The Register-Guard reported (https://is.gd/qaNjMy). “The use of blackface, even in jest at a Halloween party, is patently offensive and reinforces historically racist stereotypes,” university President Michael Schill wrote in an email he … Continue reading
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/2flR5Vx ) that the grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will fund work over the next five years. The grant will be used to conduct four studies examining why business hire or don’t hire people with disabilities. VCU will partner with Bon Secours Virginia Health System for the … Continue reading
CINCINNATI (AP) — A jury of two blacks and 10 whites was seated on Monday for the murder trial of a white University of Cincinnati police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man during a traffic stop last year. The jury, with two black women, four white women and six white men, was chosen … Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 14-year-old in Utah grabbed his mother’s gun to scare an older boy in a planned afterschool fight and ended up firing two rounds into his adversary’s head, critically wounding him, prosecutors said in charging documents filed Monday. After firing the shots, he fell to his knees outside the … Continue reading
MOUNT HOOD NATIONAL FOREST, Ore. (AP) — Each year, thousands of Oregon parents hug their kids goodbye and send them tramping into the wilderness for up to a week to learn about their state’s natural wonders. The Outdoor School program was groundbreaking when it started more than a half-century ago. Since then, more than 1 million children … Continue reading
ORONO, Maine (AP) — A University of Maine professor has died while conducting research in Antarctica. The university says 50-year-old Gordon Hamilton died Saturday when the snowmobile he was riding hit a crevasse and he fell 100 feet. He had been in Antarctica doing research for the National Science Foundation. His work focused on the … Continue reading
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