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Tax tips for college students and their parents 04/10/2024 07:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — There are lots of things college students and their parents should keep in mind before filing their taxes, and while tax pros say it’s great for college students to start filing their own forms, parents and students should double check everything carefully before anyone pushes th Scottie Scheffler, the world's No. 1 player, takes aim at a second Masters championship 04/10/2024 06:00am • AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler is not, by nature, a selfish person. It's not how he was raised, nor how he chooses to live his life, and if that ever were to change, he knows he can rely on his wife, Meredith, to bring him back to center. The problem is that Scheffler plays a selfish sport. In some classrooms in Senegal, deaf and hard-of-hearing students now study alongside everyone else 04/10/2024 02:33am • PIKINE, Senegal (AP) — Mouhamed Sall stepped to the chalkboard with a glance and quick question in sign language to an assistant. Then he solved the exercise to the silent approval of his classmates, who waved their hands in a display of appreciation. Sall and three other students are part of a ne Tennessee Senate advances bill to arm teachers a year after deadly Nashville school shooting 04/10/2024 12:49am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Tennessee advanced a proposal Tuesday to allow some teachers to carry handguns on public school grounds, a move that would mark one of the state’s biggest expansions of gun access since a deadly shooting at a private elementary school last year. A mother releases video of her autistic son being hit by an aide on a school bus to raise awareness 04/09/2024 10:34pm • DENVER (AP) — In January, Jessica Vestal’s 10-year-old autistic son, who cannot speak, came home from school in suburban Denver with bruises all over his body. Other injuries followed, including a black eye in February, which she said a bus aide blamed on him hitting himself with a toy, and a br Years after college student is stabbed to death, California man goes on trial in alleged hate case 04/09/2024 10:26pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The killing of a gay University of Pennsylvania student in Southern California more than six years ago was a hate crime, a prosecutor said Tuesday in opening statements of a murder trial. The defendant, 26-year-old Samuel Woodward of Newport Beach, is accused of stabbing t Idaho man faces federal terrorism charge. Prosecutors say he planned a church attack to support IS 04/09/2024 08:51pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An 18-year-old man planned to attack churches in a northern Idaho city using a metal pipe, butane fuel, a machete and, if he could get them, his father's guns, according to federal prosecutors who charged him with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State grou What to Know Before Gifting a Down Payment 04/09/2024 08:00pm • Giving your child money toward a down payment can help them save money and borrow less when buying a home. This can be especially helpful when they're dealing with soaring home prices and high interest rates. But before you hand over the cash, you should understand the rules and tax implications of Michigan school shooter's parents sentenced to 10 years in prison for not stopping a 'runaway train' 04/09/2024 07:55pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday as a Michigan judge lamented missed opportunities that could have prevented their teenage son from possessing a gun and killing four students in 2021. “These con Missouri man executed for killing his cousin and her husband in 2006 04/09/2024 07:45pm • BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago in an attack that left the couple’s 4-year-old daughter home alone and unharmed. Brian Dorsey, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. after a single-dose injection of the sedat Two tribal nations sue social media companies over Native youth suicides 04/09/2024 05:43pm • Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to the disproportionately high rates of suicide among Native American youth. Their lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles county court names Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta Platforms; Snapchat's Snap Inc.; TikTok par Ancient sea turtle housed at Boston aquarium for more than 50 years passes another physical 04/09/2024 05:38pm • BOSTON (AP) — Apparently, it's pretty easy being green after all. That was the takeaway from Tuesday's physical examination of Myrtle, an ancient green sea turtle that has delighted visitors to the New England Aquarium in Boston for more than 50 years. Veterinarians performed Myrtle's checkup aft 2-time All-Star Ja Morant acted in self-defense during pickup game fight, judge says 04/09/2024 05:04pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Ja Morant acted in self-defense when a teenager accused the two-time NBA All-Star of punching him during a pickup game at the home of the Memphis Grizzlies guard's parents in 2022, a judge has ruled. Shelby County Court Circuit Judge Carol Chumney cited Tennessee law on when Denver's McKade Webster chases another hockey title after sister Makenna helped Ohio State to crown 04/09/2024 02:21pm • DENVER (AP) — In the Webster family, hockey runs deep. So does winning on the ice. Current NCAA national titles score: Makenna 2, McKade 1. McKade Webster can tie the score with his younger sister this weekend at the Frozen Four in St. Paul, Minnesota. McKade, a senior captain for Denver, is tryin The first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting each sentenced to at least 10 years in prison in Michigan 04/09/2024 12:39pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting each sentenced to at least 10 years in prison in Michigan.