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How Loudoun Co. schools are responding to rise in hate incidents

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:54 GMT

School officials in Loudoun County, Virginia, say they’re offering training and professional learning and have hosted a series of sessions with the Anti-Defamation League in response to an increase in hate incidents.At an equity committee meeting earlier this month, the school system said it recorded 294 incidents involving hate speech or racial slurs in the third quarter of the school year. As of May 31, the county reported 262 incidents in the fourth quarter, and 861 total incidents this school year.It comes at a time when other D.C.-area school systems have also reported a rise in hate and bias incidents. In Montgomery County, Maryland, for example, Superintendent Monifa McKnight said the county is averaging about one hate incident per day this school year, triple the number it reported when compared to previous years and before the pandemic.In Loudoun, staff members in the Division of Equity have visited schools to see what’s going on at each campus and what can be d...

Bubba’s Ice Cream back in business at new Danville location

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:54 GMT

DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — Bubba’s Ice Cream, a long-time beloved establishment that closed its North Main Street location for good last fall, is selling sweet frozen treats again at a new spot.Owner John Arnone opened the business back up in May in a renovated former car wash building on Franklin Turnpike, next to Rubens Too restaurant.Arnone likes the new location due to more traffic along Va. 41 than at the old North Main site.“It’s been going real well,” he said during an interview at the business. “I thought it was going to be a good location and it has been.”Bubba’s Ice Cream has been a local institution for Dan River Region residents since it first opened in Danville in 1959.Thirty-nine-year-old customer Christina Holley has enjoyed Bubba’s Ice Cream since she was a small child.“I like the banana split in a cup,” said the Blairs area resident, who brought her two daughters and their two friends along. “That’s my favorite.”Bubba’s new location is more convenient for Holley, she said...

Denver weather: Cooler weekend with more showers and storms

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:54 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather will be cooler this weekend with afternoon thunderstorms Saturday and more widely scattered showers on Sunday. Weather today: Morning sunshine followed by afternoon thunderstorms Morning sunshine will help temperatures climb to the mid-70s. Pinpoint Weather: mild temperatures June 10. Free concerts, events and festivities in the metro this weekend By the afternoon, clouds will build in followed by showers and thunderstorms. Pinpoint Weather: temperatures cool as clouds roll in on June 10.There is a marginal risk for stronger storms turning severe east of Denver. Weather tonight: Showers clearing, mostly cloudyShowers and thunderstorms will wrap up this evening. We will be left with a mainly cloudy sky and low temperature in the 50s, which is right in line with normal for this time of year. Pinpoint Weather: mild temperatures linger after storm June 10. Nuggets win Game 4, bring series lead to 3-1 in Miami Looking ahead: Soggy start t...

Toddler in Volusia County dies after being left in car for nearly 3 hours

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:54 GMT

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) – Parents rushed their toddler to the hospital in Volusia County after leaving her inside a truck for more than two hours. Body camera footage showed Volusia County sheriff’s deputies putting crime scene tape around a blue pickup truck outside of a hospital on Thursday. The vehicle belonged to the parents of the two-year-old girl.A report from the sheriff’s office said that the family, including three other siblings ranging in age from 14 years old to 8 years old, forgot the toddler in the truck after returning home from lunch. It wasn’t until after they were about to leave the home nearly three hours later that they found the child strapped in her car seat and unresponsive. Her parents rushed her to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.According to the President of Kids and Car Safety Janette Fennell, it doesn’t take long for a car’s internal temperature to reach unsafe levels.“In the first ten minutes, the...

Woburn crash sends motorcyclist to hospital

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:54 GMT

Police are investigating a motorcycle crash in Woburn Saturday morning that sent one to the hospital.The motorcyclist was seriously injured and was taken to the hospital, officials said. The incident happened on Route 128 Southbound, and some lanes are closed.

Bill Madden: Buck Showalter isn’t too blame for the mess that is this $345M Mets team

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:54 GMT

Suffice it to say, Steve Cohen feels little consolation over dodging a $185 million bullet with Jacob deGrom needing Tommy John surgery.The bleak deGrom news out of Texas was announced Tuesday, but three days later Cohen’s $345 million Mets had been swept by the Braves in Atlanta and began the weekend three games under .500 in fourth place in the National League East.Naturally, the talk radio yahoos are screaming for Cohen to start shaking things up at Citi Field, but while mistakes and miscalculations have been made, fault for this pratfall in Queens lies other than in the manager’s office. For it’s not Buck Showalter’s fault that Daniel Vogelbach has been an absolute bust as the primary DH, and it’s not his fault that Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, his twin $40-plus million supposed aces, gave up 10 runs in a combined 8 2/3 innings against the Braves, and it’s certainly not his fault that Pete Alonso got hit on the wrist with an errant Charl...

Trump set for first public appearances since federal indictment with speeches to GOP audiences

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:54 GMT

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday is set to make his first public appearances since his federal indictment, speaking to friendly Republican audiences in Georgia and North Carolina as he tries to rally supporters to his defense.Trump, who remains the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination despite his mounting legal woes, is expected to use speeches at two state party conventions to rail against the charges and amplify his assertions that he is the victim of a politically motivated “witch hunt” by Democratic President Joe Biden’s Justice Department.The indictment unsealed Friday charged him with 37 felony counts in connection with his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Trump is accused of willfully defying Justice Department demands to return classified documents, enlisting aides in his efforts to hide the records and even telling his lawyers that he wanted to defy a subpoena for the materials stored at his residence. T...

Zelenskyy says ‘counteroffensive, defensive actions’ taking place in Ukraine

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:54 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that counteroffensive and defensive actions were underway against Russian forces, asserting that his top commanders were in a “positive” mindset as their troops engaged in intense fighting along the front line.The Ukrainian leader, at a Kyiv news conference alongside Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, responded to a question about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comment a day earlier that Ukraine’s counteroffensive had started — and Ukrainian forces were taking “significant losses.”Zelennsky said that “the counteroffensive, defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine. I will not speak about which stage or phase they are in.”“I am in touch with our commanders of different directions every day,” he added, citing the names of five of Ukraine’s top military leaders. “Everyone is positive. Pass this on to Putin.”Trudeau, the first foreign leader to visit Ukraine since devastating floods cause...

It’s graduation day for the youngest person in Canada to finish a university degree

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:54 GMT

Anthaea-Grace Patricia Dennis is about to become the youngest person in Canadian history to graduate from university.The 12-year-old is expected to accept her University of Ottawa diploma for a bachelor’s degree in biomedical science this evening.Patricia Dennis started her university studies when she was nine years old. She completed a 40-page thesis about the relationship between the brain and the hand for right-handed versus left-handed people. Her mother Johanna Dennis  says she knew her daughter was special when she was about two-and-a-half years old. The not-yet-teenager is looking to attend postgraduate school next.She told The Canadian Press in an interview that she’s excited to get her own lab and work with others on her research about the cerebellum, the part of the brain responsible for co-ordinating balance and movement. “I can now call myself a researcher,” she said. “I feel like the master of the cerebellum.”This report by The Canadi...

Syria’s Kurds to try IS fighters after their home countries refused to repatriate them

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:54 GMT

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria announced Saturday that hundreds of fighters with the Islamic State group held in prisons around the region will be put on trial after their home countries refused to repatriate them.The statement by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria said it still calls for the creation of an international tribunal to put those fighters on trial. It called on the United Nations, international rights groups and local organizations to help facilitate the trials.The U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, is holding over 10,000 captured IS fighters in around two dozen detention facilities — including 2,000 foreigners whose home countries have refused to repatriate them. The statement said the fighters from about 60 nationalities had entered Syria years ago and were captured in battles against the extremists.“The terrorist organization carried out horrific crimes and mass massacres against peopl...