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Jaime Torres wins the Preakness with Seize the Grey 2 years after starting to ride horses 05/18/2024 08:38pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Jaime Torres was watching horse racing on television in his native Puerto Rico in 2019 when he decided he wanted to be a jockey. Less than five years later and just two since he began riding, Torres won the Preakness Stakes on Saturday aboard Seize the Grey. To add even more to Prince George's Co. schools investigate teacher after students unbraid his hair, paint his nails in viral videos 05/18/2024 04:53pm • School officials in Prince George's County, Maryland, are investigating a teacher after viral TikTok videos showed students unbraiding his hair and painting his nails in the classroom. In a statement to WTOP, Prince George's County Public Schools said it has reassigned teacher Marquise White Even with school choice, some Black families find options lacking decades after Brown v. Board 05/18/2024 03:21pm • Since first grade, Julian Morris, 16, has changed schools six times, swinging between predominantly white and predominantly Black classrooms. None has met all his needs, his mother said. At predominantly white schools, he was challenged academically but felt less included. At predominately Black sc The stuff that Coppola���s dreams are made of: The director on building ���Megalopolis��� 05/18/2024 03:03pm • CANNES, France (AP) ��� Of the many quotations and slogans that flitter through Francis Ford Coppola���s idea-stuffed, open-hearted, unabashedly optimistic ���Megalopolis,��� one that particularly resonates with the director is: ���When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we���re free.��� ���Tha Dead or alive? Parents of children gone in Sri Lanka's civil war have spent 15 years seeking answers 05/18/2024 03:02pm • MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� For 15 years, Rasalingam Thilakawathi has been trying to find out what happened to her daughter at the end of Sri Lanka���s bloody civil war. Or if she might still be alive. The last evidence she has is a photo from a newspaper that shows her daughter, who was 19, sitt Fewer bus routes and longer walks: Prince William school system making some transportation tweaks 05/18/2024 02:17pm • Prince William County Public Schools will be making several changes to transportation for the 2024-25 school year in hopes of improving on-time arrivals and bus routing. In response to challenges with student transportation, the school division contracted a third-party transportation consultant exp A man in Malaysia who killed 2 police officers acted on his own, a minister says 05/18/2024 05:15am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� The man who attacked a Malaysian police station and killed two officers was a recluse and is believed to have acted on his own despite suspected links to the Jemaah Islamiyah extremist group, the country's home minister said Saturday. The man stormed the police statio For decades, states have taken foster children's federal benefits. That's starting to change 05/18/2024 12:16am • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� By the time Jesse Fernandez turned 18, the federal government had paid out thousands of dollars in Social Security survivor's benefits because of the death of his mother. But Jesse's bank account was empty. The money had all been used by Missouri's foster care system or Youngkin vetoes bills on skill games, contraception and Confederate heritage tax breaks 05/17/2024 10:33pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin took action on a final batch of bills from the year's regular legislative session Friday, signing seven but vetoing 48, including closely watched measures that would have ended a tax break for a Confederate heritage organization and allowed small Getting into Valhalla during the PGA isn't easy on a good day. Then came a perfectly imperfect storm 05/17/2024 06:57pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Will Zalatoris urged his parents Richard and Catherine to stay home this weekend and not follow him around at the PGA Championship. It's not worth the trouble, Zalatoris told them. The headaches involved in getting in and around Valhalla Golf Club were simply too great. And Man who sought revenge for a stolen phone pleads guilty to fire that killed a Senegalese family of 5 05/17/2024 06:42pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A Colorado man pleaded guilty to murder charges on Friday for starting a 2020 house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family out of misplaced revenge for a stolen iPhone that he mistakenly tracked to the house. Kevin Bui, now 20, was a teenager at the time of the fire but Dabney Coleman, actor who specialized in curmudgeons, dies at 92 05/17/2024 06:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in "9 to 5" and the nasty TV director in "Tootsie," has died. He was 92. Coleman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, his daughter, Quincy Coleman, said in a statement Parents of disabled children sue Indiana over Medicaid changes addressing $1 billion shortfall 05/17/2024 04:55pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Parents of two children with disabilities are suing an Indiana agency in federal court over changes to attendant care services they say violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and federal Medicaid laws. A state agency overseeing Medicaid has reimbursed parents, guardians a Conservative activist's son sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison for 'relentless' attack on Capitol 05/17/2024 02:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A prominent conservative activist's son was sentenced on Friday to nearly four years in prison for what prosecutors said was his ���relentless��� assault on the U.S. Capitol, where he smashed a window, chased a police officer and invaded the Senate floor. Leo Brent Bozell IV, 'Digging your own grave': Maryland lifeguards warn of the hidden danger of beach sand 05/17/2024 01:45pm • Lifeguards in Ocean City, Maryland, will begin an intensive eight-day training academy this week to prepare for big crowds on Memorial Day weekend. Before swimmers hit the shore, the beach patrol is reminding them of a rule that���s posted on all of the lifeguard stands: don���t dig deep holes. �