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What School Choice Is and How it Works 04/13/2023 08:00pm • Most parents send their children to their neighborhood public school. But other education options exist, including public charter, magnet, private, parochial and online schools, as well as homeschooling. Advocates use the term "school choice" to refer to programs and policies that let families use p Thousands to lose aid under Iowa bill backed by lawmakers 04/13/2023 07:53pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� Thousands of Iowa residents would be expected to lose Medicaid and food stamp benefits under a bill given final legislative approval Thursday and sent to Gov. Kim Reynolds. The state House approved the bill, which would change eligibility requirements and require more check Peruvian politician convicted in 1988 murder of reporter 04/13/2023 07:42pm • LIMA, Peru (AP) ��� A Peruvian judge convicted retired army general and conservative politician Daniel Urresti and sentenced him to 12 years in prison Thursday for his role in the 1988 murder of a journalist who covered abuses during Peru���s civil war. Hailed by advocates as an overdue but key verd Nebraska trans care ban for minors advances -- with a twist 04/13/2023 06:52pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� A bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors in Nebraska is one final step from passing after lawmakers advanced it Thursday, but not before a promise was made behind closed doors to hammer out a compromise between supporters and opponents of the bill before it's pas Mother of young boy who shot teacher arrested in Virginia 04/13/2023 06:34pm • NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) ��� The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot and wounded his teacher in Virginia has been formally arrested on charges of child neglect and failing to secure her handgun, police announced Thursday. The Newport News Police Department released a booking photo of the woman, 25, a Major Indiana plastics fire nearly out but residents worry 04/13/2023 05:38pm • RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) ��� A major industrial fire fueled by tons of scrap plastics in an Indiana city was close to being extinguished Thursday after burning for more than 48 hours, though an evacuation order for people living near the disaster remained in place, authorities said. Richmond officials al Whitmer signs stricter gun background check, storage bills 04/13/2023 05:03pm • EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) ��� Anyone who wants to buy a gun in Michigan will have to undergo a background check, and gun owners will be required to safely store all firearms and ammunition when around minors under new laws signed Thursday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The signing took place on the Michig Scorsese waltzes with David Johansen in 'Personality Crisis' 04/13/2023 04:55pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Martin Scorsese was knee-deep in preparation for ���Killers of the Flower Moon��� when Mara Hennessey reached out to invite him to see David Johansen. The former frontman for the trailblazing 1970s proto-punk band the New York Dolls ��� and Hennessey���s husband ��� was performing Anne Perry, crime writer with a murderous past, dead at 84 04/13/2023 04:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Anne Perry, the best-selling crime novelist known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk detective series and for her own murderous past that inspired the movie ���Heavenly Creatures,��� has died at age 84. Perry died Monday in Los Angeles from complications of a stroke and several h Scorsese waltzes with David Johansen in 'Personality Crisis' 04/13/2023 02:59pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Martin Scorsese was knee-deep in preparation for ���Killers of the Flower Moon��� when Mara Hennessey reached out to invite him to see David Johansen. The former frontman for the trailblazing 1970s proto-punk band the New York Dolls ��� and Hennessey's husband ��� was performing a New safety measures at Montgomery Co. high schools: Vape detectors, ID badges 04/13/2023 02:41pm • Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, are planning to install "vape detectors" in school restrooms, and will require students to wear ID badges on campus to quickly identify potential trespassers as part of two new security measures being rolled out at some high schools. Both measures are pil GOP's Tim Scott says he backs 20-week federal abortion ban 04/13/2023 02:36pm • MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) ��� Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said Thursday that he supports a federal abortion ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy and would sign such legislation into law if he became president. ���It makes total sense to me,��� Scott told reporters in New Hampshire, where he w Diplomat: Russia might discuss swap for jailed US reporter 04/13/2023 01:13pm • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Russia might be willing to discuss a potential prisoner swap with the U.S. involving jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich after his trial on espionage charges, a top Russian diplomat said Thursday. Gershkovich, 31, his employer and the U. S. government all deny he was 2 Indianapolis police officers indicted in Black man's death 04/13/2023 01:11pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Two Indianapolis police officers have been indicted by a grand jury in the death of a Black man who died last year after being taken into police custody at his parents' home, prosecutors said Thursday. The indictment of officers Adam Ahmad and Steven Sanchez comes nearly a year What���s behind the rise in child abuse cases? 04/13/2023 12:50pm • Prosecutors in Prince George���s County, Maryland, held a news conference Thursday to highlight their efforts at combating child abuse during National Child Abuse Prevention Month. It���s a crime that���s being reported with more frequency lately, though that doesn���t mean incidents of abuse are