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Puerto Rico’s schools are unequipped to cope with ever hotter heat waves

When temperatures soar at a public school on the small Puerto Rican island of Culebra, students scatter in search of relief. During a summer program last month, as ...

The Texas House OK’d GOP-favored redistricting. California intends to counter with map of its own

The national redistricting battle enters its next phase Thursday as California Democrats are scheduled to pass a new congressional map that creates five winnable seats for their party, a direct ...

Hurricane Erin stirs up strong winds and floods part of a NC highway as it creeps up the East Coast

Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes as the monster storm ...

Rhode Island Judge Frank Caprio, whose empathy in court earned him fame online, dies at 88

Frank Caprio, a retired municipal judge in Rhode Island who found online fame as a caring jurist and host of “ Caught in Providence,” has died. He was 88. His official ...

Prosecutors link LA contract to Smartmatic ‘slush fund’ as voting tech firm battles Fox in court

Smartmatic, the elections-technology company suing Fox News for defamation, is now contending with a growing list of criminal allegations against some of its executives — including a ...

Menendez brothers face parole hearings after decades in prison for parents’ 1989 murders

The Menendez brothers will make their cases for parole starting Thursday, marking the closest they’ve been to winning freedom from prison since their convictions almost 30 ...

Rally on Reeds Lake

The trial for Ryan Lane, the Pagan's Motorcycle Club member accused in the 2022 murder of Henry Silver, entered its third day Wednesday. On Wednesday, Marion County welcomed back its approximately ...

Whitecaps vs. Lugnuts, Aug. 20, 2025

The Whitecaps and Lugnuts faced off at LMCU Ballpark. (Aug. 20, 2025) More than 400 student-athletes from Davis & Elkins College participated in community clean-up efforts in Elkins on Wednesday, ...

Davis & Elkins student-athletes clean up community

More than 400 student-athletes from Davis & Elkins College participated in community clean-up efforts in Elkins on Wednesday, demonstrating their commitment to giving back to the town they ...

Hurricane Erin picking up steam as it edges along the East Coast

Hurricane Erin began strengthening again Wednesday as it crept closer to the mid-Atlantic coast, its outer bands brushing ...

Justin Bieber imposter banned from Las Vegas nightclub after duping crowd

An impersonator attempted to fool a crowded nightclub at Wynn Encore Resort into believing he was pop star Justin Bieber. It ...

Judge Frank Caprio, known for ‘Caught in Providence’ and viral TikToks, dies

Caprio served as a judge in Providence for almost 40 years and often went viral on social media for dismissing tickets from ...