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Things to know about a school shooting in the small Iowa town of Perry 01/06/2024 07:11pm • A small town in Iowa is stunned but pulling together after a school shooting in which a 17-year-old killed a sixth-grade student and wounded seven other people before authorities say he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Many questions remain about how the shooting unfolded and what might have Iowa principal critically injured in school shooting risked himself to protect students, police say 01/06/2024 11:06am • PERRY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa principal critically injured in a school shooting put himself in harm's way so students could try to escape from a teenage shooter who opened fire in a cafeteria as students were gathering for breakfast before class, authorities said Friday. Perry High School Principal 17-year-old kills sixth grader, wounds five others in Iowa school shooting, police say 01/04/2024 11:08pm • PERRY, Iowa (AP) — A 17-year-old opened fire at a small-town Iowa high school before classes resumed on the first day after the winter break, killing a sixth-grader and wounding five others Thursday as students barricaded in offices, ducked into classrooms and fled in panic. The suspect, a student Wisconsin redistricting consultants to be paid up to $100,000 each 01/04/2024 04:58pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two consultants hired to analyze new legislative boundary lines in Wisconsin after the state's Supreme Court tossed out the current Republican-drawn maps will be paid up to $100,000 each under terms of their contracts made public Thursday. Each consultant will be paid an hourl Should You Move To A 55-Plus Community? 01/03/2024 07:00pm • In 2020, about 1 in 6 people in the United States were age 65 and older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which tallied nearly 56 million people in this age group. In 1920, this proportion was less than 1 in 20. Estimates for 2035 predict this number will hit 75 million. This looming exodus from Report: Data from 2022 California traffic stops shows 'pervasive pattern' of racial profiling 01/03/2024 06:00pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Black people accounted for nearly 13% of traffic stops in California in 2022, far above their 5% share of the state’s population, according to a report released Wednesday under a law designed to address racial profiling of motorists and pedestrians by police. The annual report Penguins line up to be counted while tiger cub plays as London zookeepers perform annual census 01/03/2024 03:15pm • LONDON (AP) — A sign directed the animals to line up to be counted and several of the 74 Humboldt penguins did just that, waiting patiently Wednesday to be tallied in the London Zoo's annual census. Not all the animals were as obedient. Crispin, an endangered Sumatran tiger cub, treated a chalk bo Several Midwestern cities are going to be counted again like it's 2020 01/03/2024 10:36am • Four years after the last census, almost a dozen small communities in the Midwest are going to be counted again in hopes of getting a new grocery store or more state funding to build roads, fire stations and parks. Eleven small cities in Illinois and Iowa are the only municipalities so far to have s A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe 01/02/2024 07:17am • CHICAGO (AP) — Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person’s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The person died in 2015 at a nursing home not remembering much, including their own name. They went by Seven. The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023 12/31/2023 06:30pm • Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia. Prigozhin's Aug. 23 death put an exclamatio More people are calling DC 'home', new census data shows 12/30/2023 04:33pm • The population in the nation’s capital grew by 8,023 people between July 1, 2022 and July 1, 2023, according the U.S. Census Bureau. An estimated 678,972 people now live in the District. That number is higher than the entire state of Wyoming, which has a population of 584,057. D.C.'s 1.2% ye Perspective: Children born poor have little margin for mistakes or bad decisions, regardless of race 12/29/2023 03:02pm • ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Alfred King was lying in the parking lot of a small apartment building, mortally wounded when police in Alexandria, Louisiana, got to the intersection of 12th and Magnolia streets shortly before 1:30 a.m., Jan. 20. The 34-year-old was the first fatal shooting of 2023 in the Pope says 'our hearts are in Bethlehem' as he presides over the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's 12/29/2023 01:45pm • VATICAN CITY (AP) — Recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable in Bethlehem, Pope Francis in a Christmas Eve homily said that “the clash of arms even today" prevents Jesus “from finding room in the world.” The pontiff presided Sunday over the evening Mass attended by about 6,500 faithful who took World population up 75 million this year, standing at 8 billion on Jan. 1 12/29/2023 11:32am • The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year's Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday. The worldwide growth rate in the past year was just under 1%. At the start of 2024, 4.3 births Social media companies made $11 billion in US ad revenue from minors, Harvard study finds 12/27/2023 03:12pm • Social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year, according to a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health published on Wednesday. The researchers say the findings show a need for government regulation of social media since