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After tornado, harrowing tales of survival in Mississippi 03/25/2023 08:17pm • SILVER CITY, Miss. (AP) ��� Nothing remained of William Barnes��� home in the tiny western Mississippi town of Silver City after a killer tornado tore it off its foundations. He stood in disbelief Saturday as he surveyed the lot where he'd lived for 20 years, twisted debris of cinder blocks and mang Mexican kid's comic Xavier L��pez, 'Chabelo,' dies at 88 03/25/2023 07:30pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Xavier L��pez, a Mexican children���s comic better known by his stage name ���Chabelo,��� has died at 88, President Andr��s Manuel L��pez Obrador wrote Saturday. L��pez's best-known work, the Sunday variety show ���En Familia con Chabelo���, ran for an astonishing 48 years fr Don't say 'no' to Narcan: Montgomery Co. parents and students get lesson on how to prevent overdose 03/25/2023 06:07pm • After five students died from opioid and fentanyl overdoses this school year, Montgomery County, Maryland Public School parents and students gathered Saturday to learn how to use lifesaving drugs ��� most notably, Narcan. Though none of the overdose deaths have come on school property, Paint Bran Greene's DC jail visit pulls GOP closer to Jan. 6 rioters 03/25/2023 11:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene swept into the District of Columbia jail to check on conditions for the Jan. 6 defendants, with Republican lawmakers handshaking and high-fiving the prisoners, who chanted ���Let's Go Brandon!��� ��� a coded vulgarity against President Joe Biden ��� as Shoma Uno of Japan repeats as world figure skating champion 03/25/2023 09:47am • SAITAMA, Japan (AP) ��� Shoma Uno prevailed in a quad showdown in the free skate on Saturday to become the first Japanese man to defend his title at the figure skating world championships. Uno, skating to selection of music that included Bach, attempted five quadruple jumps at Saitama Super Arena. H George Mason University students petition against Youngkin as commencement speaker 03/25/2023 09:06am • George Mason University students are petitioning against the college's decision to host Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin as the graduation commencement speaker in May. Senior Alaina Ruffin started the petition Thursday, one day after university president Gregory Washington announced that the Republic Utah State player upgraded to fair condition after collapse 03/25/2023 12:50am • Utah State redshirt freshman wide receiver Josh Davis is in fair condition on Friday, one day after collapsing at spring football practice following sudden cardiac arrest, the university announced. Davis, initially was listed in critical condition, was breathing on his own. He is in the intensive-ca Montgomery Co. high school cracks down on off-campus lunch policy due to 'safety concerns' 03/24/2023 11:57pm • Days after a Quince Orchard High School student was found suffering an apparent overdose inside the bathroom of a McDonald's near the school, the school's principal announced stricter enforcement of the off-campus lunch policy. In a tweet, Quince Orchard Principal Elizabeth Thomas wrote that Los Angeles schools, union leaders reach deal after strike 03/24/2023 11:16pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The Los Angeles Unified School District and union leaders said Friday they reached a deal on pay raises for bus drivers, custodians and other support staff after a three-day strike that shut down the nation's second-largest school system. The deal includes a series of retroac Teachers press school safety in wake of Denver shooting 03/24/2023 10:16pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Colorado teachers flooded into the state Capitol Friday to press for better protections for students and school staff after a 17-year-old Denver student shot two administrators, fled to the mountains and killed himself. Roughly 1,500 teachers and their supporters called for improved Reyna starts 1st match for US since Berhalter flap, 7-1 rout 03/24/2023 09:59pm • Gio Reyna started in his first match with the U.S. after his parents disparaged then-coach Gregg Berhalter for his lack of playing time at the World Cup, a 7-1 rout of 173rd-ranked Grenada in the CONCACAF Nationals League on Friday night at St. George's. Ricardo Pepi and Weston McKennie had two goal Drag community shows up to protest Nebraska drag show bill 03/24/2023 08:36pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� A bill that would criminalize exposing anyone 18 or younger to a drag show in Nebraska was the last one to get a public hearing in this year's legislative session late Friday. But those opposed to the bill made sure the final hearing went out with a flash of glitter and sequin Miami women hold on, beat Villanova for 1st trip to Elite 8 03/24/2023 07:42pm • GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) ��� The horn sounded and Miami coach Katie Meier turned to start jumping and hugging her staff as players and cheerleaders sprinted past for a meet-at-midcourt celebration. She soon made her way into the crowd to embrace players hollering with delight. Soon she emerged through Utah social media law is ambitious, but is it enforceable? 03/24/2023 05:45pm • Utah's sweeping social media legislation passed this week is an ambitious attempt to shield children and teens from the ill effects of social media and empower parents to decide whether their kids should be using apps like TikTok or Instagram. What's not clear is if ��� and how ��� the new rules can ACLU: Lawsuit likely if Nebraska bill on trans health passes 03/24/2023 05:31pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� Now that a Nebraska bill to ban gender-affirming treatments for minors has cleared its first and toughest hurdle, parents and children likely to be affected by the measure are preparing for a legal fight, the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday. ���It's discriminatory o