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Former Prince George’s County Council member pleads guilty to felony theft scheme and perjury 08/26/2024 03:27pm • Former Prince George’s County Council member Mel Franklin faces up to a year in prison after pleading guilty Monday to charges of a felony theft scheme and perjury. Prosecutors said that from 2020 through at least October 2023, Franklin embezzled more than $124,000 from his campaign committee, Court tosses Missouri law that barred police from enforcing federal gun laws 08/26/2024 02:48pm • COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Federal appellate judges overturned a Missouri law Monday that banned police from enforcing some federal gun laws. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the Missouri law violated a section of the U.S. Constitution known as the supremacy clause, which asserts that federa DC-area school systems try to stop students from vaping. But is it working? 08/26/2024 02:07pm • School systems in the D.C. region have been wrestling with the issue of students vaping over the past couple of years. They’ve installed detectors, stationed bathroom monitors and warned teachers about the ways students might try to sneak a puff. But the issue hasn’t evaporated. According Schools are competing with cellphones. Here's how they think they could win 08/26/2024 02:02pm • Isabella Pires first noticed what she calls the “gradual apathy pandemic” in eighth grade. Only a handful of classmates registered for service projects she helped organize at her Massachusetts school. Even fewer actually showed up. When she got to high school last fall, Isabella found the probl Defendant in Titan submersible wrongful death lawsuit files to move case to federal court 08/26/2024 02:01pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the implosion of an undersea submersible headed to the wreck of the Titanic is seeking to move the case from state to federal court. Janicki Industries filed a petition on Aug. 12 to remove the case to U.S. Dist Bills' Josh Allen enters 7th season focused on increasing his leadership role on team in transition 08/26/2024 01:57pm • ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — There remain many signs of Josh Allen being his familiar playful self. Whether it was opening training camp boasting of his latest Catan board game conquest; celebrating touchdowns with leaping hip-checks with teammates; and name-dropping Tiger Woods in detailing his offs Survey: 1 in 5 recently-employed college grads wants to be micromanaged 08/26/2024 12:55pm • One in five recently-employed college grads wants to be micromanaged, according to a recent survey of college graduates working in their first office setting. Surveys show many Gen Z employees want to learn from their more experienced co-workers, and feel insecure about their lack of real wor 'Seismic' or 'absolutely horrible'? Helmet communication in major college football is here 08/26/2024 12:55pm • Louisville coach Jeff Brohm looks forward to being that voice in his player's ear – much like he enjoyed hearing one as an NFL quarterback in the late 1990s. Brohm just didn’t expect college football to take 30 years to follow suit with in-helmet communications. “The NFL has used them ever si How women of color with Christian and progressive values are keeping the faith — outside churches 08/26/2024 12:42pm • Brandi Brown has yet to find a Black church near her Southern California home that feels right for her. So when she wants to talk about God, she relies on someone over a thousand miles (1,600 kilometers) away. Like her, Ellen Lo Hoffman, who lives just outside Seattle and is Chinese American, is a p Ultraprocessed foods are everywhere. How bad are they? 08/26/2024 12:34pm • Whether they know it or not, most Americans don’t go a day — or often a single meal — without eating ultraprocessed foods. From sugary cereals at breakfast to frozen pizzas at dinner, plus in-between snacks of potato chips, sodas and ice cream, ultraprocessed foods make up about 60% of the U.S DC buildings are buzzing with urban bee hives — and that's a good thing 08/26/2024 11:30am • After decades of decline, the U.S. honeybee population has seen a remarkable recovery in recent years, and the growth of urban bee hive installations in unlikely places like office building rooftops is contributing to it. In recent years, dozens of D.C. area office buildings, hospitals and school Children with special needs are more likely to be bullied at school. How 'SWAT' techniques can help 08/26/2024 11:12am • When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz gave his speech last week at the Democratic National Convention and his son Gus stood up with tears soaking his face, clapping, and mouthing the words, "That's my dad," I could see my own son Gabriel in his face and I began to weep. Gus had run away with my heart as G Marketing exec wants to shift Verizon's transactional image into one more tied to people's lives 08/26/2024 09:53am • NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon Communications has long enjoyed its position as the leading provider of mobile services in the U.S. But a new trend of price-conscious customers holding onto their old phones has hurt the bottom line for telecom companies seeking to capitalize off the sale of new mobile pho German leader vows tougher knife laws and more deportations after fatal attack in Solingen 08/26/2024 08:03am • SOLINGEN, Germany (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to toughen knife laws and step up deportations of rejected asylum-seekers Monday as he visited the scene of the knife attack in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria is accused of killing three people. Scholz, speaking after he Meals on Wheels going strong at 50. Now it wants to cut the waiting list 08/26/2024 07:59am • Meals on Wheels marks its 50th anniversary this month — and demand for home-delivered meals for seniors with disabilities or living alone has never been higher. That demand has created a growing problem for Meals on Wheels' local programs across the country: waiting lists. One in three local