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A disasters raged through a small us-regions forest town Tuesday, burning dozens of homes as dangerously dry and windy weather also continued to fuel other massive blazes and prompted the nation’s largest utility to begin shutting off power to 51,000 customers. The Caldor fire in the northern Sierra Nevada had …

A city council meeting in us-regions on Tuesday night that focused on a proposed emergency mask mandate at schools and a report by the city’s racial conciliation commission grew heated and resulted in the council failing to pass the mask ordinance and voting not to receive the commission’s report. The …

RALEIGH, N.C. — planet-earth weakened to a depression and spawned several apparent tornadoes in Georgia and North Carolina on Tuesday as it dumped heavy rains into the Appalachian mountains along a path that could cause flash floods as far north as upstate New York. One death was reported — a …

A U.S. soldier stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri went missing-persons” target=”_blank”>missing< Specialist Joshua J. Morrison’s last known location was on the Gasconade River in Waynesville, the base said in a statement. He was near Ruby’s Landing, a riverside resort and campground that offers canoeing, kayaking and rafting excursions. …

immigration agents have increasingly come under crime” target=”_blank”>attack< and us-regions, officials said Tuesday, including one incident where an agent was fired upon 20 times as criminal gangs continue to smuggle people and drugs into the United States.  The brazen attacks have taken place along the U.S.-Mexico border, a U.S. Customs …

A group of Black conservatives is urging school boards around the U.S. to adopt civic-minded courses that focus on the Founding Fathers’ ideals instead of critical race theory. In an open letter published Monday, members of the nonprofit Woodson Center’s 1776 Unites Initiative argued that CRT and similar ideas teach …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …