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Storm breaches California river's levee, thousands evacuate 03/11/2023 08:42pm • WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California agricultural community famous for its strawberry crop was forced to evacuate early Saturday after the Pajaro River’s levee was breached by flooding from a new atmospheric river that pummeled the state. Across the Central Coast's Monterey County Bill banning marriages under age 16 passes in West Virginia 03/11/2023 07:03pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A child marriage bill is heading to the West Virginia governor's desk after lawmakers agreed to let 16- and 17-year-olds get married with restrictions. The House of Delegates passed the bill 83-9 without debate Saturday, a day after the Senate easily endorsed it after maki Maine college goes into lockdown after shot fired on campus 03/11/2023 02:48pm • The campus of a liberal arts college in Maine was on a temporary lockdown early Saturday after a shot was fired in a student housing complex during what one student called a massive annual party. Colby College said no students were hurt during an altercation that involved a firearm being discharged Oregon eyes mandate for climate change lessons in schools 03/11/2023 01:15pm • SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers are aiming to make the state the second in the nation to mandate climate change lessons for K-12 public school students, further fueling U.S. culture wars in education. Dozens of Oregon high schoolers submitted support of the bill, saying they care about climate Trump vs. DeSantis: Florida pastors mull conservative issues 03/11/2023 09:45am • DORAL, Florida (AP) — Several of Florida’s conservative faith leaders have the ear of two early frontrunners for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination – former President Donald Trump, who lives in Palm Beach, and Gov. Ron DeSantis. The clergy's top political priorities are thus likely t Houston joins cities fighting potential state takeovers 03/11/2023 09:05am • HOUSTON (AP) — In four years of Houston schools being under threat of one of the biggest state takeovers ever in the U.S., teacher Arnetta Murray says the district has come a long way. As Houston braces for a decision from the state on whether it will seize control of public schools in Texas' lar 'It's hard to focus': Schools say American kids are hungry 03/11/2023 08:17am • PHOENIX (AP) — America's schools say kids are hungry — just as pandemic-era benefit programs have lapsed. There is growing concern about the effects on kids' ability to learn. Congress temporarily made school meals free to all American schoolkids, but since that ended last fall, the need has on WV Senate joins GOP effort to limit trans youth health care 03/11/2023 02:01am • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's Republican supermajority Senate followed a growing national trend of GOP opposition to health care for transgender youth by passing a bill that would ban certain treatments and therapies, while approving a significant change to add exceptions for mental hea Bill would ban marriages under age 16 in West Virginia 03/10/2023 10:57pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A child marriage bill was passed by the West Virginia Senate on Friday night after it was changed to prohibit anyone younger than 16 from getting married and to ban age gaps of more than four years for 16- and 17-year-olds. The Senate passed the bill on a 31-1 vote. It now Dunbar High School staffer on leave after alleged sexual misconduct toward a student 03/10/2023 09:04pm • An employee at a D.C. high school has been placed on administrative leave after allegedly engaging in sexual misconduct with a student. The incident at Dunbar High School has been referred to D.C. police and D.C. Child and Family Services Agency, according to a letter from the school's principal. The New York hush-money probe of Donald Trump explained 03/10/2023 08:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) — In the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump’s lawyer tried to buy the silence of a porn actress who said she had a sexual encounter with the Republican during his days as a reality TV star. More than six years later, New York prosecutors appear to be close 29 graduates sworn in as Montgomery Co. police officers amid push to increase recruits 03/10/2023 08:08pm • A brand new class of police recruits have been sworn in to their new jobs, serving five different law enforcement agencies in Montgomery County, Maryland. The 29 members of the 75th session of the Montgomery County Police Training Academy will work in the Montgomery County, Takoma Park, Gaithersb DeSantis visits Iowa as interest in likely Trump rival rises 03/10/2023 07:38pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ahead of a widely expected presidential campaign, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis introduced himself to eager audiences of Iowa Republicans on Friday with a message that leaned into the antagonism toward the left that has made him a popular figure among conservatives. “We will Wife sues over meteorologist's death in NC helicopter crash 03/10/2023 05:39pm • The family of a meteorologist who was killed last year in a helicopter crash in North Carolina is suing a maintenance facility and the companies that owned and operated the aircraft. The complaint filed this week in Mecklenburg County Court in Charlotte alleges negligence and claims the helicopter Killing of Maryland high schooler solved 52 years later 03/10/2023 04:38pm • MILLERSVILLE, Md. (AP) — More than a half-century after Maryland high school student Pamela Conyers was found strangled to death following her disappearance from a local shopping mall, law enforcement officials announced Friday that they finally solved the case. But the suspect, Forrest Cly