A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court alleges negligence by CSX Transportation caused a train derailment and ensuing chemical fire that forced residents of a small Kentucky town out of their homes for more than a day, including most of Thanksgiving. The train derailed on Nov. 22 around 2:30 p.m. …
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Advocates for pro-life pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) in Massachusetts are pushing back against efforts from the blue state’s attorney general and Democratic state legislators that would regulate their advertising. A measure labeled by its authors as an “Act to protect patient privacy and prevent unfair and deceptive advertising of pregnancy-related …
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley traded barbs during Wednesday evening’s GOP presidential primary debate over their past positions on bathroom access for transgender people, with both candidates launching accusations against one another on the issue. The tense exchange between the GOP presidential hopefuls came …
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A Mississippi teacher accused of having sex with a student was denied bond after an investigator dropped a disturbing accusation in court. “He (James Donald Hawkins II) said that they had made plans to go to Louisiana to elope, and things were moving faster than they originally expected,” Jackson County …
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The Ohio-based Oberlin College removed a former Iran regime official and religion professor, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, from his teaching post after a three-year pressure campaign from Iranian Americans who were outraged over his role in covering up the mass murder of at least 5,000 Iranian political prisoners in 1988. Andrea …
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South El Monte, California, parents were shocked to learn last week that a teacher at a day care facility allegedly applied mood-calming stickers known as “Zen Patches” on preschoolers without the parents’ consent. FOX 11 Los Angeles reported that parents of students at Options for Learning Head Start were outraged …
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Ruby Franke, the Utah parenting blogger accused of abusing her six children with her blogging co-host — and co-defendant — Jodi Hildebrandt, appeared in court on Monday and entered a plea deal. Franke, 41, pleaded guilty to four of six counts of second-degree aggravated child abuse in a St. George …
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A Kentucky power plant silo leaked coal ash and trapped one worker under a pile of the dusty material on Wednesday, sending him and two others who tried to help him to a hospital. KENTUCKY REMAINS IDENTIFIED AS FBI FUGITIVE WHO VANISHED NEARLY 25 YEARS AGO The leak at the …
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Police in Virginia say they expect to file new criminal charges against the mother of a 5-year-old boy who disappeared 20 years ago after his skeletal remains – found in a trash can last year – were positively identified by using forensic genome sequencing. Logan Nathaniel Bowman was reported missing …
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Revelers will flock en masse to ring in the new year at public gatherings across the country, but partygoers should be prepared for worst-case scenarios, one expert warns. “It seems like these days, every other week there is another case where a person with a firearm has decided to attack …
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