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4/20 grew from humble roots to marijuana's high holiday 04/19/2024 02:56pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Saturday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their customers with discounts. This year’s edition provides an occasion for activists to reflect Opinion: This album brings ‘Taylor math’ to a whole new level 04/19/2024 01:30pm • (CNN) — Friday’s midnight release of “The Tortured Poets Department,” Taylor Swift’s 11th album, means that yet another era has begun — and a record-breaking one at that. Swifties, who are now more than familiar with football jargon (at least when it comes to Kansas City Chiefs’ t A man gets 19 years for a downtown St. Louis crash that cost a teen volleyball player her legs 04/19/2024 10:16am • ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for causing a downtown accident that resulted in the amputation of the legs of a teenage volleyball player from Tennessee. Daniel Riley, 22, was convicted last month of second-degree assault, armed criminal action, fourth-de Staff and shoppers return to 'somber' Sydney shopping mall 6 days after mass stabbings 04/19/2024 03:15am • SYDNEY (AP) — Shoppers and workers returned to a “really quiet” Sydney mall Friday, where six days earlier an assailant stabbed six people to death and wounded more than a dozen others in an attack that police believe targeted women. Westfield Bondi Junction mall near world-famous Bondi Beach 12 students and teacher killed at Columbine to be remembered at 25th anniversary vigil 04/19/2024 12:03am • DENVER (AP) — The 12 students and one teacher killed in the Columbine High School shooting will be remembered Friday in a vigil on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the tragedy. The gathering, set up by gun safety and other organizations, is the main public event marking the anniversary, which i Teenager is charged with terrorism offenses in stabbings of bishop and priest at Sydney church 04/18/2024 11:46pm • SYDNEY (AP) — A 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics during a Sydney church service has been charged by police with terrorism offenses. Authorities said the stabbing was declared a terrorist act because of the teenager’s suspected religious motivation and that the boy travel Montgomery Co. student charged with threats of mass violence after police discover disturbing 'manifesto' 04/18/2024 07:19pm • An 18-year-old high school student in Montgomery County, Maryland, has been charged with making threats of mass violence after authorities said he wrote a 129-page document describing a desire to "shoot up" his high school. Andrea Ye, who uses the name Alex, was arrested Wednesday and is being he Maryland teen charged with planning school shooting after police review writings, internet searches 04/18/2024 05:50pm • ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — An 18-year-old Maryland high school student was charged with planning to commit a school shooting after investigators reviewed the teen’s writings and other material, including internet searches and messages, police said Thursday. The student was arrested Wednesday by the M Loudoun Co. judge sets new jury trial for fired superintendent Ziegler, challenge possible 04/18/2024 05:48pm • A Loudoun County, Virginia, judge set a new trial date for fired school superintendent Scott Ziegler and made no reference to Ziegler's attorneys claim that the judge erred in ordering a new trial after setting aside a previous misdemeanor conviction. Thursday morning, Circuit Court Judge Douglas Idaho's ban on youth gender-affirming care has families desperately scrambling for solutions 04/18/2024 10:29am • Forced to hide her true self, Joe Horras’ transgender daughter struggled with depression and anxiety until three years ago, when she began to take medication to block the onset of puberty. The gender-affirming treatment helped the now-16-year-old find happiness again, her father said. A decision Sydney teen accused of stabbing 2 clerics showed no signs of radicalization, Muslim leader says 04/18/2024 07:12am • SYDNEY (AP) — A 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics during a Sydney church service might have “anger management and behavioral issues” and a “short fuse” but had shown no signs of being radicalized, a community leader said Thursday, after authorities declared the stab Attorney general won't file criminal case against LA officer in 2021 shooting that killed teen 04/18/2024 12:56am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Attorney General declined to file criminal charges against a Los Angeles police officer who fired a rifle at a suspect inside a clothing store in 2021, killing a 14-year-old girl in a dressing room, authorities said Wednesday. Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr. fire New Hampshire man who brought decades-old youth center abuse scandal to light testifies at trial 04/17/2024 06:36pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — David Meehan, whose allegations of abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center sparked nearly a dozen arrests and more than a thousand lawsuits, finally took the witness stand Wednesday, seven years after he first told his wife, “They raped me.” “I think I’m mo Empathetic parents can mean empathetic kids, as study finds trait is passed down over generations 04/17/2024 03:34pm • When it comes to the trait of empathy, when and how you show it to your kids can have a big influence on how they act, both through adolescence and as parents themselves years later. Researchers at the University of Virginia say the trait is one that's passed down through generations, beginning with NFL draft: Top defensive players on the board 04/17/2024 02:14pm • NFL teams in need of immediate help on defense will have a tricky time finding it in the first round or two of this year's draft. As usual, edge rushers and cornerbacks will be the most highly valued defensive players. But the best of those groups don't quite stack up to their peers in recent drafts