LOS ANGELES - The second-largest school district in the country is suffering from academic afflictions of its own making. While test scores show a continuing decline at the high school level in math proficiency (21 percent) and reading (51 percent), is the district making improvement in these ...
This week’s bouquets go to: From Joe Hinkson, Manistique Center ISD welding instructor: The Delta-Schoolcraft ISD, Manistique Center, welding students would like to thank UP Paper and Fastenal for their generous donation to Mr. Hinkson’s welding classes. These companies donated welding ...
By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Saturday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2023. There are 78 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 14, 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. On this date: In ...
WASHINGTON — When President George W. Bush formulated the concept of an American Devil’s Island in Cuba, he did so heedless of the damage to the Constitution his experiment in torture and confinement without end would bring about. Bush made the case that torture and confinement at the U.S. ...
NEW YORK — What happens when police, trying to catch a bad guy, destroy your house? This happens surprisingly often. In my new video, Los Angeles print shop owner Carlos Pena describes how a man running from police knocked him to the ground and then ran inside his shop. “I didn’t ...
The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) are warning Michigan seniors to be on alert for scams and high-pressure sales tactics during this year’s annual Medicare Open Enrollment period, which runs from ...