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Older Florida couple found slain in their home; police believe killer stole their car 03/28/2024 04:50pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida police are seeking the public's help in finding a car stolen from an older couple who were found shot to death in their home. Fort Lauderdale Police on Thursday reissued an all-points bulletin for a red 2014 Ford Fusion that belonged to Major Melvin, 89, and h Truck driver convicted of vehicular homicide for 2022 crash that killed 5 in Colorado 03/28/2024 04:33pm • DENVER (AP) — A Denver truck driver has been convicted of five counts of vehicular homicide for crashing a semi tractor-trailer into a sport utility vehicle carrying a Wyoming family in June 2022, killing all five of them. A Weld County jury also convicted Jesus Puebla of five other counts on Wedn As Kansas nears gender care ban, students push university to advocate for trans youth 03/28/2024 03:56pm • LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — With Kansas poised to ban gender-affirming care for minors, college students are trying to counter Republican efforts to roll back transgender rights by pushing the state's largest university to declare itself a haven for trans youth. The GOP-controlled Legislature approved i US changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. It's the first revision in 27 years 03/28/2024 03:35pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage. The revi Punxsutawney Phil, the spring-predicting groundhog, and wife Phyllis are parents of 2 babies 03/28/2024 02:18pm • Now we know what Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who predicts whether an early spring will arrive each Feb. 2, does on the other 364 days. The Pennsylvania group that handles Phil, and his groundhog wife, Phyllis, says the couple have become parents. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club said in a Facebo A timeline of the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried and the colossal failure of FTX 03/28/2024 01:26pm • Sam Bankman-Fried went from cryptocurrency golden boy to the face of the industry's collapse. The founder and former CEO of the massive cryptocurrency exchange FTX was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday after being convicted of fraud for stealing at least $10 billion from customers and investo Universities of Wisconsin president proposes 3.75% tuition increase 03/28/2024 11:26am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other campuses in the system would increase 3.75% next school year under a recommendation announced Thursday by UW President Jay Rothman. The proposal is up for a vote of approval by the UW Board of Regents on April 4. If appr Activists form human chain across Nashville, Tennessee, on Covenant school shooting anniversary 03/28/2024 11:07am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Thousands of people linked arms across Nashville on Wednesday, forming a human chain on the one-year anniversary of a shooting at the Covenant School that killed three 9-year-old children and three adults. The event organized by gun safety advocates included families from t Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children 03/28/2024 06:24am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst. But the gruesome impact Israel’s war against Hamas is having on Palestinian children still left them stunned. One toddler died from a brain injury caused by an Israeli stri German mail service stops using domestic flights to transport letters after nearly 63 years 03/28/2024 06:13am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany's main national postal carrier on Thursday stopped using domestic flights to transport letters after nearly 63 years, a move that reflects the declining significance of letter mail and allows it to improve its climate footprint. Deutsche Post said the last planes carrying let Lawmakers in Thailand overwhelmingly approve a bill to legalize same-sex marriage 03/27/2024 11:43pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Lawmakers in Thailand's lower house of Parliament overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill on Wednesday that would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender. The bill passed its final reading with the approval o West Virginia Gov. Justice vetoes bill that would have loosened school vaccine policies 03/27/2024 08:32pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday broke with West Virginia's GOP-majority Legislature to veto a bill that would have loosened one of the country's strictest school vaccination policies. West Virginia is only one of a handful of states in the U.S. that offers only m Man shot through front door of Fairfax Co. day care, hitting two employees, police say 03/27/2024 08:21pm • An Arlington man fired a pistol through the front door of a day care center in Springfield, Virginia, striking two employees and sending them to the hospital, according to Fairfax County police. The suspect, 41-year-old Julio Pascual Sejas, of Arlington County, who police said fled the scene and How to Get Valuable Home Energy Tax Credits 03/27/2024 08:00pm • The federal government -- and many state governments -- can help you cover the cost of making energy-efficient home improvements. You can get tax breaks for installing energy-efficient windows, doors, and cooling and heating systems, and even bigger breaks for installing solar panels and water heate 7 Strategies to Dig Out of Student Loan Debt 03/27/2024 08:00pm • Earning a college degree is seen as a key component of the American dream, but that achievement often comes at a steep cost. The average student loan debt among recent college graduates who borrowed is around $30,000, according to U.S. News data. For borrowers who attended graduate or professional s