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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers are poised to approve the largest pay raises in a generation for experienced public school teachers in an effort to keep educators from leaving state classrooms.The Alabama Senate voted 32-0 Thursday for the budget that would raise minimum salaries for teachers with nine or more years experience. The raises…Continue Reading

March 31, 20227:50 PM UTCLast Updated ago1 minute readU.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price speaks during a news conference in Washington, U.S. March 10, 2022. Manuel Balce Ceneta/Pool via REUTERSRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comWASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Thursday said a small number of outstanding issues remain…Continue Reading

If you’re shopping for a new vehicle right now, good luck finding what you want — especially at a reasonable price.The personal consumption expenditure index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred monthly measure of inflation, hit 6.4 percent in February — the fastest rate of growth for that measure since 1982. While expenditures on automobiles declined overall last…Continue Reading

An expiring federal program that has offered free meals to all schoolchildren during the pandemic and loosened requirements for what they must be fed will be back on the table if newly proposed legislation is passed.A bipartisan bill introduced Thursday in the Senate seeks to keep the initiative going by extending federal waivers that have…Continue Reading

When the pandemic hit, the pace of research only accelerated, with researchers communicating from dingy basements on the communication platform Slack and over Zoom calls. “2020 was a crazy year for many reasons. It gave us something to focus on,” Phillippy said.Ultimately, the researchers pieced together the entire genetic code for a single version of a…Continue Reading

A group of over a dozen students, parents, educators and advocates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s Board of Education, alleging that newly enacted state legislation would “stigmatize, silence, and erase LGBTQ people in Florida’s public schools.”The Parental Rights in Education bill, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill…Continue Reading

A student was shot at a South Carolina middle school Thursday and authorities took a classmate into custody shortly after police were called to the scene. More than 100 officers responded to Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville, working to identify the shooter, according to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office. A request for backup was called…Continue Reading

A team of Western Michigan University students helped police crack a murder cold case that went unsolved for 35 years — and helped bring a woman’s killer to justice, authorities said Thursday. Patrick Wayne Gilham, 67, has pleaded no contest to the second-degree murder of Roxanne Leigh Wood, 30, in her Niles Township, Michigan, home…Continue Reading

A federal judge barred Florida from enforcing the bulk of its new restrictive voting law on Thursday, siding with opponents who said the law was discriminatory and needlessly infringed on Floridians’ voting rights.The ruling, which will likely be appealed, is the first major invalidation of a spate of restrictive new election laws passed in Republican-controlled…Continue Reading