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Netflix docuseries on abuse allegations at New York boarding school prompts fresh investigation 04/04/2024 12:05am • A Netflix docuseries spotlighting abuse allegations at a long-shuttered boarding academy for teens in rural northern New York has prompted dozens of new complaints to the local prosecutor and a fresh investigation. ���The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping��� started streaming last month. The three Bringing dental care to kids in schools is helping take care of teeth neglected in the pandemic 04/04/2024 12:01am • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Tucked away inside the teachers lounge at a New Hampshire elementary school, Amber Warner was having her teeth checked out for the first time. The 5-year-old sat back on what looked like a beach chair and wore a pair of dark sunglasses as certified public health dental hygieni Why is Taiwan so exposed to earthquakes and so well prepared to withstand them? 04/03/2024 08:50pm • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ��� Taiwan was struck Wednesday by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century. At least nine people were killed and hundreds injured, buildings and highways damaged and dozens of workers at quarries stranded. Taiwan is no stranger to powerful earthquakes yet their to Armed teen with mental health issues shot to death by sheriff���s deputies in Southern California 04/03/2024 07:45pm • VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� Southern California sheriff's deputies shot and killed a 17-year-old boy with mental health issues after he armed himself with a knife and locked himself inside a bathroom at a home, authorities said Wednesday. The teen was being transferred from a hospital, where he ha Sisters mystified by slaying of their octogenarian parents inside Florida home 04/03/2024 07:38pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� After the killing of their octogenarian parents last month in their South Florida home, Kim Melvin Hill and Tonya Mitchell went before a bank of TV cameras seeking answers on Wednesday. Why were they killed? Who would have done this? And where can the killer or killers Prosecutors recommend at least 10 years in prison for parents of Michigan school shooter 04/03/2024 06:25pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� Prosecutors in Michigan are recommending at least 10 years in prison next week for two parents who are the first in the U.S. to be held criminally responsible for a school shooting. Jennifer Crumbley showed a ���chilling lack of remorse��� for her role, and James Crumbley �� Playwright Christopher Durang, a Tony winner for 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,' dies at 75 04/03/2024 04:06pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Playwright Christopher Durang, a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for ���Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike��� and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with ���Miss Witherspoon,��� has died. He was 75. Durang died Tuesday at his home in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, of Blue Jackets captain Boone Jenner's wife gives birth to stillborn baby, the couple says 04/03/2024 01:33pm • COLUMBIS, Ohio (AP) ��� Columbus Blue Jackets captain Boone Jenner���s wife, Maggie, delivered a stillborn baby on Sunday, the couple said in a statement released by the club. The Jenners said Wednesday they are at a loss for words over the pain that���s nothing like they���ve experienced before aft Once overlooked, point guard Mark Sears has carried Alabama to its first Final Four 04/03/2024 01:31pm • TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) ��� Nate Oats admits it: He whiffed on Mark Sears out of high school. It���s OK, though. So did every other major college coach. It is why Alabama���s undersized, high-scoring point guard wound up at Ohio University before finally getting a chance to return to his home state. N Movie Review: Love wins in the triumphant 'Housekeeping for Beginners' 04/03/2024 12:37pm • ���Housekeeping for Beginners��� begins with a shot of a painting on a wall hanging just a little askew. It's an apt metaphor for what's in store. Writer and director Goran Stolevski gives us an atypical family portrait that's brilliantly political without being preachy, loving without being maudlin John Barth, innovative postmodernist novelist, dies at 93 04/03/2024 12:04pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� John Barth, the playfully erudite author whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of fiction, died Tuesday. He was 93. Johns Hopkins University, where Barth was an emeritus professor of English National Teacher of the Year helps diverse students and their families thrive in rural Tennessee 04/03/2024 12:02pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� When Ali Aglan joined Missy Testerman's second grade class, his family had just moved from Egypt to rural east Tennessee, where his parents now run an Italian restaurant. Coming home from school one day in the town of Rogersville, he told his mother that no one would talk t Elon Musk's X has a new safety leader, nine months after predecessor left the social media platform 04/03/2024 11:54am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Elon Musk's X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has named a new head of safety nine months after the last executive to hold the position departed from the social media company. X said that company veteran Kylie McRoberts will oversee the global safety team. The platform also A 12-year-old suspected of killing a classmate and wounding 2 in Finland told police he was bullied 04/03/2024 09:59am • HELSINKI (AP) ��� A 12-year-old student suspected of fatally shooting a classmate and wounding two others in Finland told police that he was bullied at school, officials said Wednesday, as a nation shocked by the attack held a day of mourning. The suspect, a sixth grader who attended the school in 'This is my passion': Maryland educators win financial literacy awards 04/03/2024 08:50am • Susan Bistransin is a 38-year veteran of the Prince George's County school system and currently serves as its financial education and empowerment coordinator. Now, she's been honored with an award for his dedication to the topic. Bistransin is one of Maryland's winners of the Financial Education