Tories shift into defence mode with warnings of ‘Labour for a generation’ Farage told LBC Radio: ‘Have we had trouble with one or two candidates ... Today – Tuesday June 18 – marks a big milestone in the General Election: it’s the final day you can register to vote. The ... 06/17/2024 - 9:31 pm | View Link
As November deadline looms, Spokane Public Schools board remains undecided on when to send their once-failed bond to ballots "It would have a fairly wide benefit while still being a lot smaller than the original package we did not pass," Lockwood said, adding that there would be construction on schools on the North and ... 06/17/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Several schools across the region to close early this week due to heat wave With temperatures expected in the mid-90s for much of the week, several school districts will send elementary and middle school students home early. 06/17/2024 - 11:19 am | View Link
Columbus parents rally in calling for pause in plan to close up to 20 schools Parents of Schools children said Monday the district failed to connect with the community and urged the board to pause the closure process. 06/17/2024 - 8:18 am | View Link
School districts cancel classes, announce early dismissal ahead of expected hot weather The Worcester Public Schools canceled classes for Thursday and Friday and the Norwood Public Schools announced a series of early dismissals 06/17/2024 - 6:21 am | View Link
A landmark bill aimed at standardizing and improving the way police treat victims in the aftermath of a sexual assault has become law in Connecticut.
The new law establishes a council that will create a model policy for police responding to sexual assault, and it received unanimous, bipartisan support. The law also requires that officers refer victims to a victim advocate, distribute information about services available, and help the victim and any children present obtain medical care.
Remember that crushing feeling when we lost Roe v. Wade? The experts warned us. The Christian nationalists told us that was their main goal and the litmus test for their judges. Still, the moment was as devastating as it was surprising. Big steps backward don’t seem possible. But they are.
On Monday, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called on Congress to require a warning label for social media platforms. The move is intended to battle a rising crisis of mental illness and suicide among the nation’s youth. Such a label from the top federal authority on public health also has the potential to reduce dangers from a specific trend: the insidious marketing of guns to kids.
“Young people are biologically more vulnerable to social media influencers and advertising, and more likely to engage in impulsive and risky behavior,” Sandy Hook Promise CEO Nicole Hockley, whose six-year-old son Dylan was murdered in the 2012 school attack, wrote in a statement following Murthy’s announcement.