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Spain frees up 'bad bank' houses to ease housing crisis 04/18/2023 09:22am • MADRID (AP) ��� Spain���s leftist coalition government on Tuesday approved a plan to make available around 50,000 houses for rent at affordable prices as part of measures aimed at curbing soaring rents and house prices. The apartments will come from the state-controlled SAREB ���bad bank��� that wa Italy captures killer bear amid debate on her fate 04/18/2023 07:31am • ROME (AP) ��� Authorities in northern Italy captured a bear that fatally mauled a runner and became the focus of a battle over what to do with Italy���s growing Alpine brown bear population that was once nearly extinct but has rebounded thanks to a European Union-funded project. Jj4, a 17-year-old f 3 Montgomery Co. elementary students hospitalized after taking 'controlled substance'�� 04/18/2023 06:45am • Three young students at a Montgomery County, Maryland, elementary school felt sick after ingesting what they thought was candy but instead may have turned out to be a controlled substance. Police arrived at College Gardens Elementary in Rockville after the 7-year-old students became sick on Monda Man charged in front-door shooting of Black teen Ralph Yarl 04/17/2023 10:49pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� An 84-year-old white man in Kansas City, Missouri, was charged Monday with first-degree assault for shooting a Black teen who mistakenly went to the man's home to pick up his younger brothers. Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson said at a news conference that there was Tenn. lawmakers' race to adjourn complicates gun safety push 04/17/2023 10:10pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Tennessee lawmakers on Monday kicked off a rushed effort to adjourn by the end of the week, looking for an exit from a session that has been eclipsed by the fallout of the Republican supermajority expelling two young Black Democrats and a growing push to pass some sort of g Families displaced from California neighborhood seek $2B 04/17/2023 09:19pm • PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) ��� As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a small piece of land on a Native American reservation in Palm Springs he described as a ���little world of its own,��� surrounded by the parts of the city that were tourist magnets and depicted in movies. The retiree, who now Considering Catholic School? Here's What to Know 04/17/2023 08:00pm • With a variety of K-12 school options for parents to sort through, choosing the right learning environment for your child can be difficult. If private school is a consideration, then Catholic school may have crossed your mind. "One of the main reasons my parents have continued to put me in a Cathol 2nd teen charged in kidnapping migrants in Houston 04/17/2023 07:35pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� A second teenager has been charged with kidnapping several migrants and allegedly holding them captive for several days at a Houston hotel before they were rescued by FBI agents during a confrontation that ended with the fatal shooting of another suspect, authorities said Monday. De 17 men arrested in California Sikh community shootings 04/17/2023 06:54pm • YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) ��� Authorities in Northern California on Monday said they had arrested more than a dozen men from two warring criminal syndicates whose violent rivalry they say was responsible for a mass shooting at a Sikh temple and a brutal sword attack at a parade in 2018. Sutter County D Md. teenager collects books for kids fighting cancer 04/17/2023 05:07pm • A Gaithersburg, Maryland, teenager has now collected some 15,000 books for local children who have been diagnosed with cancer. She is now looking for more donations to continue her mission. Emily Bhatnagar, 19, began her organization For Love and Buttercups in July 2021, after her father received Volunteers speak on why they serve and why more people don't 04/17/2023 04:20pm • Every day, Americans donate their time, skills and energy to their communities by volunteering with nonprofit organizations. The Associated Press interviewed five volunteers about what motivated them to get involved and why they think more people don't give their time. Recently released data from t Review: Poet Maggie Smith on the dissolution of a marriage 04/17/2023 03:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� ���You Could Make This Place Beautiful,��� by Maggie Smith (One Signal Publishers/Atria Books) Poet Maggie Smith seems to have the idyllic life: a devoted husband, two kids, lots of friends and a big house in a leafy town in Ohio where her family has lived for generations. And she� Arlington to allow students to carry naloxone in schools as part of opioid prevention efforts 04/17/2023 02:53pm • Arlington Public Schools in Virginia is moving forward with a plan that will enable students to carry naloxone ��� the generic form of the overdose-reversing drug Narcan ��� in school by the end of May. At Thursday's board meeting, Superintendent Francisco Duran said the county is aiming for stud UK prime minister seeks to reverse 'anti-math' culture 04/17/2023 01:49pm • LONDON (AP) ��� U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants to reverse an ���anti-math��� culture and require the subject be taught in England until students are adults, though he acknowledged Monday there aren't enough teachers to meet existing requirements. Sunak said poor math skills in adults were hol Authorities: Suspect arrested in killing of Oregon policeman 04/17/2023 01:44pm • ONTARIO, Oregon (AP) ��� Authorities have arrested a man suspected of fatally shooting an eastern Oregon reserve police officer after a car chase over the weekend, prosecutors said Monday. Officer Joseph Johnson, a 43-year-old reserve officer for the Nyssa Police Department, was unable to return fir