Houston County disqualifies school board candidate. Now emergency meeting is planned A fter disqualifying a school board candidate in a runoff election two days ago, the Houston County Board of Elections is holding an emergency meeting Thursday. The meeting late Thursday afternoon is ... 06/6/2024 - 6:49 am | View Link
Horry school board candidates push security, family. What to know about those running One seat on the Horry County School Board will be decided by voters during the upcoming South Carolina primary. There is one district on the June 11 ballot. Two candidates from the Aynor area will ... 06/6/2024 - 2:46 am | View Link
Local Residents File for City Council, School Board, and Conservation Seats Ahead of November Election Several local residents have submitted their candidacies for seats on the city council, school board, and the soil and water conservation board of supervisors in the upcoming November General Election ... 06/6/2024 - 2:09 am | View Link
Houston election board disqualifies Board of Education candidate HOUSTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Houston County runoff race scheduled for June is canceled since one of the candidates is disqualified. He is Clyde Jackson, a candidate for Board of Education Post 7, according ... 06/6/2024 - 12:42 am | View Link
What you need to know about Chicago’s elected school board City voters will elect school board members this fall for the first time. We break down how candidates get on the ballot and how to vote. 06/5/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
NEW YORK — Inspired by an 18th century Scottish philosopher and the modern scourge of misinformation, Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, post-apocalyptic land of Panem for a new The Hunger Games novel.
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Scholastic announced Thursday that “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the fifth volume of Collins’ blockbuster dystopian series, will be published March 18, 2025.
St. Petersburg, Fla. — At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida’s Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon.
Lundberg and his diver companion had found fossils in the same place before, including mammoth teeth, bones of an ancient jaguar and parts of a dire wolf.
Washington — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address a joint meeting of Congress on July 24, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Congressional leaders last week formally invited Netanyahu to come speak, delivering the most recent show of wartime support for the longtime ally despite mounting political divisions over Israel’s military assault on Hamas in Gaza.
Washington — The Supreme Court sided with Native American tribes Thursday in a dispute with the federal government over the cost of health care when tribes run programs in their own communities.
The 5-4 decision means the government will cover millions in overhead costs that two tribes faced when they took over running their health care programs under a law meant to give Native Americans more local control.
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Covering those costs is “necessary to prevent a funding gap,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion, joined by the three liberal justices and fellow conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch.
A new sexually transmitted fungal infection has been detected for the first time in the U. S., health experts announced Wednesday.
A study, published in the journal JAMA Dermatology on Wednesday, reported that the first known U. S. case of this new form of ringworm was discovered in a man from New York City in his 30s.
Three Florida parents sued Florida’s Board of Education on Thursday because they allege the board violates their rights by not having a process to object to the removal of books from school libraries and classrooms.
In the lawsuit, which was filed in the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, the plaintiffs say that Florida law H.