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The Latest | Hezbollah rocket barrage ups pressure on Israel as Gaza cease-fire negotiations drag on 06/12/2024 06:07pm • The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets toward northern Israel on Wednesday, hours after an Israeli airstrike killed a senior commander ��� the hightest-ranking member of the group to die in eight months of fighting. The Israeli military said some of the 215 projectiles were Alarmed by embryo destruction, Southern Baptists urge caution on IVF by couples and government 06/12/2024 05:56pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Southern Baptist delegates expressed alarm Wednesday over the way in vitro fertilization is routinely being practiced, approving a resolution lamenting that the creation of surplus frozen embryos often results in ���destruction of embryonic human life.��� They urged members to '1,000 wounds': Sheets of paper with racial slur printed from Montgomery Co. school printer 06/12/2024 05:20pm • A Maryland teacher loaded sheets of paper into a Montgomery County classroom printer last month when she noticed a large number of pages being printed out in a single run. On the 1,000 sheets of paper was just one word -- a��racial slur against the Black community. "It was, like, just a contin Man convicted in killings of 8 from another Ohio family seeks new trial 06/12/2024 04:46pm • A man convicted in the killings of eight people from another Ohio family is seeking a new trial. George Wagner IV made the request in a filing Monday with the Ohio Court of Appeals. He claims there were several errors during his 2022 trial in which he was found guilty of all 22 counts he faced, incl Jersey Shore cops, pols want to hold parents responsible for kids' rowdy actions after melees 06/12/2024 04:40pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� Parents should be held civilly or criminally responsible for the actions of their children that create disturbances or damage in public places, a group of New Jersey police chiefs and Republican lawmakers said Wednesday during a forum held after a second consecutive year High school president writes notes thanking fellow seniors ��� 180 of them 06/12/2024 03:55pm • Emily Post would be proud. A high school class president in Massachusetts who gave a commencement speech wanted to recognize all of his fellow graduates. So he wrote them personal thank-you notes presented at the ceremony ��� 180 to be exact. ���I wish I could���ve acknowledged you all, but there Dogs search for missing Kentucky baby whose parents and grandfather face drug, abandonment charges 06/12/2024 02:29pm • REYNOLDS STATION, Ky. (AP) ��� Cadaver dogs searched Tuesday for a missing western Kentucky baby whose parents and grandfather face child abandonment and drug charges, police said. Kentucky State Police announced last week that troopers were searching for 8-month-old Miya Rudd. Trooper Corey King sa From smart glasses to a rainbow rodeo, some Father's Day gift ideas for all kinds of dads 06/12/2024 01:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Whether you go big, small or DIY, there are lots of ways to please dad on Father's Day. Homemade cards and drawings, and things made of clay or popsicle sticks, are evergreen options from little hands. So is gathering your top family photos for framing, or knitting up a sweater, h Oklahoma Supreme Court rejects state education board's authority over public school libraries 06/12/2024 01:39pm • EDMOND, Okla. (AP) ��� Local school boards in Oklahoma will retain the right to determine what books are available in public school libraries after the state Supreme Court shut down efforts to shift that discretion to the state Board of Education. ���The state Board of Education is attempting to ex Steady decline in youth hockey participation in Canada raises concerns about the future of the sport 06/12/2024 09:13am • BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) ��� All four ice rinks at Susan Fennell Sportsplex are full of action on this winter Saturday morning, the air filled with the sound of hockey skates grinding through ice and pucks clanging off the glass. The scene is as familiar as the sunrise in countless rinks across Canada Arlington parents call for schools to adopt 'away for the day' cellphone policy 06/12/2024 05:32am • Some Arlington parents are urging the Virginia school district to adopt an "away for the day" policy for student cellphone use, the latest in what's emerging as an annual call for action between residents and school leaders. In a letter to Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Francisco Duran l Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown overcomes crowded GOP Senate primary field, setting up key Nevada race 06/12/2024 02:44am • RENO, Nev. (AP) ��� Republican Sam Brown overcame a crowded field of primary opponents to win Nevada���s GOP U.S. Senate primary Tuesday, setting up a fierce general election battle against incumbent Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen that could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate. In a speech to s On Eid al-Adha, Senegal's star sheep are for luxury, not sacrifice 06/12/2024 01:03am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� When Cheikh Moustapha Seck, a 24-year-old sheep breeder from Senegal, speaks about his animals, his face lights up. ���You need love and patience to work with the sheep,��� said Seck, affectionately stroking the long neck of Sonko, his champion sheep, named after the country� Family of Texas man who died after altercation with jailers wants federal investigation 06/11/2024 11:04pm • The family of a Texas man who died after an altercation with jailers, including one who pinned his knee to the inmate's back, on Tuesday called for a federal investigation into the practices at the jail. Anthony Johnson Jr., 31, a former Marine, died April 21 after the altercation, which officials Montgomery Co. schools make 'extraordinarily difficult' budget cuts 06/11/2024 09:36pm • The Montgomery County Board of Education adopted a $3.32 billion operating budget for fiscal year 2025 on Tuesday. The acceptance of the budget left the school system with a $30 million deficit. The board voted Tuesday on several cuts in response to that deficit. Montgomery County School Board