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Montgomery Co. first grade teacher charged with selling fentanyl after fatal overdose 08/21/2024 06:25pm • A Montgomery County Public Schools first grade teacher has been arrested and charged with selling fentanyl. Police began looking into Sarah Katherine Magid, who teaches at Dr. Charles R. Drew Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, after a man fatally overdosed on fentanyl in March at a dru Florida quietly removes LGBTQ+ travel info from state website 08/21/2024 06:16pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Key West, Fort Lauderdale, Wilton Manors and St. Petersburg are among several Florida cities that have long been top U.S. destinations for LGBTQ+ tourists. So it came as a surprise this week when travelers learned that Florida's tourism marketing agency quietly removed the Sports on TV for Thursday, Aug. 22 08/21/2024 05:55pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, Aug. 22 AUSTRLIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN'S) 5:30 a.m. (Friday) FS2 ��� AFL: Collingwood at Melbourne COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN'S) 7 p.m. ACCN ��� Rice at Florida St. BTN ��� Arkansas at Michigan St. GOLF 7 a.m. GOLF ��� DP World Tour Rookie Bo Nix wins Broncos' starting QB job over Jarrett Stidham and Zach Wilson 08/21/2024 04:53pm • ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) ��� Denver's unconventional quarterback competition concluded Wednesday with one final plot twist when Broncos coach Sean Payton walked up to his QBs during warmups and informed them rookie Bo Nix had won the starting job. ���He smiled," Payton said of the 12th overall pick out No. 23 USC hopes defensive overhaul can spark College Football Playoff bid 08/21/2024 04:33pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Offense was not the problem during Lincoln Riley���s first two seasons at Southern California. Even with 2022 Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams running the show, leading a unit that averaged more than 41 points per game, the Trojans couldn���t make it to the College Football Human bones found near carousel in waterfront park in Brooklyn 08/21/2024 03:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York City authorities are investigating after human bones were discovered twice this week on the shoreline of the East River near a waterfront carousel known for its spectacular views of the Brooklyn Bridge. A city parks department officer found a skull and other bones on the s 85 years ago today: Alexandria Library sit-in sought seat at table for all readers 08/21/2024 02:21pm • Exactly 85 years after five Black men were arrested at a Northern Virginia library during a civil rights protest, the Alexandria Library unveiled a new traveling exhibition, detailing the events, participants and legacy of the 1939 sit-in. "It's all about access," said Rose Dawson, director o Kennedy Center hosts free Local Theatre Festival of up-and-coming playwrights 08/21/2024 02:15pm • Before the lights, sets, props and costumes, every great theatrical show starts somewhere. This weekend, D.C. theatergoers can witness awesome new work before it even hits the stage. The Kennedy Center hosts the free Local Theatre Festival at the REACH this Friday and Saturday. "This is Rams expect to move into new Woodland Hills headquarters next week -- probably 08/21/2024 02:02pm • THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) ��� The Los Angeles Rams are set to move into their new complex next week. Probably. They were supposed to start using the new facility in Woodland Hills, California, at the start of August. But hiccups putting the finishing touches on it meant the Rams returned to Califor Schiano and Rutgers looking to build off their first winning season since 2014 08/21/2024 01:56pm • PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) ��� Rutgers is coming off its first winning season in football since 2014 and coach Greg Schiano and the Scarlet Knights are looking for more this season. A nationally ranked defense is returning most of its starters. There is a new transfer quarterback taking over an improved New Indiana coach relies on familiar blueprint to help Hoosiers recreate a winning formula in 2024 08/21/2024 01:47pm • Curt Cignetti's blueprint for winning seems to travel with him wherever he lands. Assistant coaches tend to follow him from one stop to the next. Some of his top players do, too. And everyone sees how the old-school disciplinarian refuses to bend the rules when it comes to intangibles ��� or his des Zooming past a stopped DC school bus comes with $500 fine this school year 08/21/2024 01:11pm • Ahead of Monday���s first day of classes, D.C.���s Department of Transportation is reminding drivers that zipping around stopped school buses will come with a hefty fine this school year. The program, which launched in the final weeks of the last school year, added cameras to 25 school bus stop a Cornel West cleared to appear on ballot in Maine, where ranked voting is in play 08/21/2024 01:08pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) ��� Independent presidential candidate Cornel West can appear on the ballot in Maine, the state's secretary of state has ruled. Shenna Bellows' decision came Tuesday, about a week after the withdrawal of a challenge to another long-shot candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The presen It���s not just IUDs. Gynecologists and patients are focused on making procedures less painful 08/21/2024 12:59pm • Federal officials affirmed this month that the pain people might feel when getting an IUD can be more than doctors' promises of ���just a pinch." The local anesthetic lidocaine ���might be useful for reducing patient pain��� when inserting intrauterine devices, according to new guidance from the U.S Judge rejects GOP call to give Wisconsin youth prison counselors more freedom to punish inmates 08/21/2024 12:45pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� A federal judge has rejected Republican legislators' calls to give counselors at Wisconsin's troubled youth prison more leeway in controlling and punishing inmates after a counselor was killed during a fight at the facility this summer. U.S. District Judge James Peterson sent