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Shooting at Kentucky State University leaves 1 dead, 1 hurt and a suspect in custody, officials say 12/09/2025 09:03pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ��� One student was killed and another was critically wounded in a shooting at a residence hall at Kentucky State University on Tuesday, and a suspect who is not a student at the school has been arrested, officials said. The shooting happened around 3 p.m. and was an ���isolated Fairfax Co. school board disbands group providing expert advice on school facilities 12/09/2025 07:38pm • Fairfax County���s school board on Thursday voted to nix a volunteer community group that advises on long-term plans for school facilities. The division���s Facilities Planning Advisory Council is scheduled to be disbanded by April 1, after a 8-3 vote in support of the move. In place of the counc U.S. News Money Surveys 2025: 6 Responses That Caught Our Eye 12/09/2025 07:00pm • Each year, the U.S. News money team conducts regular surveys focusing on a range of financial topics. These surveys help inform our reporting and gauge the financial health, habits and attitudes of Americans from year to year. We ask savers to reveal their emergency fund balance. We ask homebuyers w Judge set to rule whether Catherine Hoggle is competent to stand trial in 2014 disappearance of two children 12/09/2025 06:33pm • A Montgomery County, Maryland judge will announce Wednesday afternoon whether a Maryland mother is competent to stand trial for murder in the 2014 disappearance of her two young children, after hearing two days of testimony in a competency hearing. Catherine Hoggle, 39, was the last person seen w What are parents to do as doctors clash with Trump administration over vaccines? 12/09/2025 05:29pm • It���s normal for parents, or anyone, to have questions about vaccinations -- but what happens if your pediatrician urges a shot that���s under attack by the Trump administration? That���s getting more likely: The nation���s leading doctors groups are in an unprecedented standoff with federal health Colin Kaepernick is helping Prince George's Co. high school students through AI 12/09/2025 03:59pm • Prince George���s County Public Schools plan to make a big investment in artificial intelligence programs in the coming years. One of the first programs it's turning to, Lumi Story, was demonstrated at Largo High School on Tuesday. Lumi Story, an AI-powered storytelling platform, is backed by for Nicaraguans celebrate Virgin Mary in Miami despite fears at home and in US 12/09/2025 03:57pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� Hundreds of Nicaraguans sang in praise of the Virgin Mary at flower-and-light-filled altars set up in church parking lots as well as in the back of vehicles on the streets of Miami to mark the Dec. 8 feast of the Immaculate Conception. The exuberant celebration called ���griter��a��� Illinois law protects immigrants from arrest near courthouses, hospitals or colleges 12/09/2025 03:28pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ��� Immigrants living in Illinois, among the states hit hardest by the Trump administration���s immigration crackdown, are now shielded from federal enforcement near courthouses, hospitals, university campuses and day cares under a law Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker signed Tuesda Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died at age 60 12/09/2025 10:05am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died. He was 60. Malo died Monday night, his wife, Betty Malo, posted on his Facebook page. He had been battling cancer. The frontman of The Mavericks had documented his health jo Takeover bid of parent company means limbo for CNN and some fellow cable networks 12/09/2025 09:45am • Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be an extended period of management limbo. There was some relief at CNN with last Friday's announcement that Netflix was buying Warner's studio and stream Australia's social media ban leaves a 15-year-old worried about losing touch with friends 12/09/2025 07:00am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Riley Allen, a 15-year-old schoolboy living on an Outback sheep ranch, doesn���t know how he���ll keep in touch with his circle of far-flung friends once Australia's world-first social media ban takes effect on Wednesday. Riley���s family lives 5 kilometers (3 miles) fr Why those who have aggressive relationships with parents, friends as teenagers are aging faster 12/09/2025 04:26am • Teenagers who have conflictual, hostile or aggressive relationships with parents or friends are more likely to show early signs of premature aging and look older by the time they���re 30, according to a University of Virginia study. The study, which monitored a group of over 100 people in Virgini 100 schoolchildren abducted in Nigeria are released but more are still held 12/08/2025 08:54pm • MINNA, Nigeria (AP) ��� A total of 100 of the schoolchildren abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school last month and released over the weekend were hosted at a government-organized ceremony on Monday, many of them looking lost but relieved. Details surrounding their release were not made public and How to Choose Between the Digital and Paper ACT 12/08/2025 07:00pm • Though the ACT went digital, students still have the option to take the college admissions test with a pencil and paper. A?CT, a nonprofit organization that develops the test, is the only assessment company that still offers paper, says Juan Elizondo, ACT director of strategic communications. Studen What to Expect at Your First Prenatal Appointment 12/08/2025 07:00pm • At her first prenatal appointment for her first pregnancy, Shana Westlake of Beacon, New York, remembers entering her OB-GYN's office full of anxiety. "They took my blood pressure, and it was through the roof," Westlake says. She wondered whether her high blood pressure was cause for alarm. Thankful