A us-regions man has filed a lawsuit after a bear in a dumpster startled him at a town in us-regions, causing him to flee and injure himself, according to court documents. John Donaldson was vacationing in the tourist area of Incline Village in September 2019 when he opened a dumpster …
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Special education teacher shortage impacting 48 states
Raleigh, N.C. – Fourteen percent of all education” target=”_blank”>public school < Susan McDermott has been a special education teacher for 20 years at Davis Drive Elementary School in Cary, North Carolina. “The first time I walked into a special ed classroom, I was home,” she said. McDermott says helping special …
Read More »Rashida Tlaib discloses thousands of dollars in rental income, despite co-sponsoring 'cancel rent' bill
us-regions rashida-tlaib” target=”_blank”>Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s< pandemic. Tlaib joined fellow “the-squad” target=”_blank”>Squad<, D-N.Y., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and other progressives in April 2020 to co-sponsor Rep. Ilhan Omar’s, D-Minn., bill to “institute a nationwide cancellation of rents and home mortgage payments through the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.” She tweeted during the …
Read More »COVID-19 surge in Florida school district forces thousands of students to isolate, quarantine
More than 5,000 education” target=”_blank”>students< school district are in infectious-disease isolation or quarantine, the school district said this week. “As of 7 a.m. Monday, 5,599 students and 316 employees in Hillsborough County Public Schools are in isolation or quarantine. Isolation refers to individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 while quarantine …
Read More »US Bicycle Route System expands with 2,903 miles of new cycling trails across 5 states
Cyclistsa> are getting more options with the <a href="https: latest expansion. In total, 18 new bicycle routesa> have been added to the national system, which measures 2,903 miles –the largest addition to date, according to the <a href="https:. The new routes are spread across California, Indiana, Ohio, Utah and Washington. …
Read More »California recall election of Gov. Newsom gets underway as voters start receiving ballots
Ballots are now being sent to voters for us-regions‘s gubernatorial recall election of embattled gavin-newsom” target=”_blank”>Gov. Gavin Newsom< The latest public opinion polls indicate those likely to vote in the recall contest are divided on ousting Newsom. The surveys also point to how crucial turnout will be in a state …
Read More »Over 1,000 Nashville students in COVID-related quarantine after first week of school
Upward of 1,000 nashville” target=”_blank”>Nashville< and staff are under infectious-disease quarantines or isolation on Tuesday following the city’s first week of school. According to data from the Student Health Service department, during the week of Aug. 9 through 15, there were 207 confirmed positive coronavirus cases and 52 confirmed staff …
Read More »Archaeologists find skeleton, evidence of Greek in Pompeii
archaeology” target=”_blank”>Archaeologists<have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton during excavations of a tomb that also shed light on the cultural life of the city before it was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD 79. A skull bearing tufts of white hair and part of an ear, as well as bones …
Read More »Dozens of residences evacuated as Minnesota wildfire spreads
Dozens of residences have been evacuated as a disasters in northeastern us-regions continues to spread, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The fire in the Superior National Forest near Greenwood Lake had expanded to about 3.1 square miles by Tuesday as crews fought the fire on the ground and from …
Read More »Rescue crews in Turkey search for 34 still missing in floods
Rescue workers in world-regions kept up the search Tuesday for 34 people still missing after severe disasters ravaged parts of the country’s Black Sea coast, with excavators clearing the sludge and building wreckage that was left behind. At least 77 people were killed after torrential rains battered Turkey’s northwestern Black …
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