Woman suffers life-threatening injuries in stabbing at Boston MBTA station – Boston 25 News
BOSTON – A woman was critically injured in a stabbing at an MBTA station in Boston late Thursday night, law enforcement said. According to the Boston Police Department, officers responding to a report of a stabbing at the Park Street Station in the area of 121 Tremont Street shortly after 11:30 p.m. found a woman suffering from injuries that his life in danger. The victim, whose name has not been released, was rushed to a local hospital. The police department confirmed that homicide detectives have been assigned to the case. Red Line trains were briefly delayed after the incident, but…
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SUTTONS BAY SIGNING Governor marks a budget and a record | Local news
SUTTONS BAY – Shortly before signing Michigan’s $24.3 billion education budget, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer answered why she and Lansing’s top political leaders gathered at Suttons Bay High School to make it official. For one thing, state Rep. Betsy Coffia, D-Traverse City, pushed for it, Whitmer said. On the other hand, it sends a message about how everyone involved in drafting the legislation views the students of Suttons Bay Public Schools. “Because the students in Suttons Bay, the little Norsemen, matter just as much as the little Trojans in East Lansing, or the kids in Saginaw, or the kids in the…
Read More »Katie Ledecky kicks off World Swimming Championships with ‘Race of the Century’
Katie Ledecky opens the World Swimming Championships on Sunday with the most anticipated race of her career. The 400-meter freestyle final in Fukuoka, Japan, will feature Ledecky, a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and 19-time world champion; Australia’s Ariarne Titmus, who beat Ledecky in this event at the 2019 Worlds and the Tokyo Games; and Canada’s 16-year-old Summer McIntosh, who took Titmus’ world record on March 28. It would be the first time that the last three world record holders in an Olympic program event meet in a championship grand final since the 2012 Olympic men’s 100m breaststroke (Brendan Hansen, Kosuke…
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Opinion | Abby Phillip on Jesse Jackson’s political legacy
Last Saturday, dozens of former aides, friends, supporters and dignitaries gathered at the former synagogue that houses the headquarters of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition on Chicago’s South Side to commemorate the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s second presidential campaign 35 years ago. The organization’s founder, once a six-foot-plus, broad-shouldered college football star, is now led by a group of trusted aides. Parkinson’s disease has ravaged the body of Mr. Jackson and has stopped his speech, although according to those around him, it has not slowed his mind. Fifty-two years ago, at the age of 30, Mr. Jackson broke away from the Southern…
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Florida may be where the awakening goes to die, but what does the awakening even mean? : NPR
Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference in West Columbia, SC on July 18. Sean Rayford/AP hide caption toggle subtitle Sean Rayford/AP Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference in West Columbia, SC on July 18. Sean Rayford/AP There’s one word in the Republican presidential campaign that’s hard to avoid: “woke.” Republicans on the campaign trail are using it as a kind of ploy to criticize anything on the progressive side of the political spectrum that they don’t like, whether it’s teaching about racism in schools or gender…
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Pa’s last attempt. of regulating charter cyber schools would lower tuition fees and increase transparency
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and WITF Public Media. Subscribe to our free newsletters. HARRISBURG – A bill making its way through the Pennsylvania Legislature would cap the amount of money public school districts send to cyber charters and require those schools to be more transparent about their inner workings. Technological change and a global pandemic drove students to these K-12 institutions, completely online and independently. But state regulations governing those schools, last updated 20 years ago, didn’t anticipate the rapid growth of cyber charters —…
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New York Republicans want to ban the consumption of cannabis in public
Republicans in the state legislature are calling for a ban on smoking and consuming cannabis in public places in New York as the legal market takes hold. The measure, supported by state Sen. George Borrello and Rep. Michael Novakhov, would allow local governments to enact local laws to ban the public consumption of marijuana. “Residents of the state, including children, are now regularly assaulted with the pungent smell of marijuana on public sidewalks, parking lots and other public spaces,” Borrello said. “Many New Yorkers do not want to be exposed to the effects of marijuana. smoke or its smell and…
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Trump’s State Department appointee was found guilty of seven felonies in the Jan. 6 case
WASHINGTON — A political appointee of Donald Trump who tried to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 was convicted of seven felonies on Thursday, the same day a grand jury decided whether to indict the former president for his efforts to stop the peaceful transfer of power was hearing testimony. by former White House aide William Russell. Federico Klein, who worked at the State Department during the Trump administration, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, also a Trump appointee, after a bench trial that unfolded last week . Klein was represented by Stanley Woodward, a lawyer for several…
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