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    Plaquemine High School hosts shoe drive for developing nations, Beta Club

    PLAQUEMINE — Plaquemine High School's Senior Beta Club is hosting a shoe drive fundraiser collecting gently worn, used and new shoes to benefit both the club and developing nations.The fundraiser, which runs through April 15, has already collected 67 pairs of shoes. The shoes collected will help raise funds for Plaquemine High Senior Beta, as well as being keeping them out of landfills and being repurposed to help support places like Haiti, Cambodia and Ghana.Those who want to participate...

  • Rise in scabies infection cases in Leeds revealed from 2023 amid national shortage of medication

    The council’s health protection team secured extra supplies of skin cream to treat the condition and raised awareness of how to prevent transmission. The city’s annual Health Protection Board Report said there was a national shortage of Permethrin as the infection was circulating. The medication was included in the city’s Pharmacy First scheme and made available to people not registered with a GP. The report said: “A bespoke leaflet was designed about scabies, how to reduce transmission and how...

  • Fugitive charged in double murder of National Guard member, daughter signs extradition to Massachusetts

    The man who is allegedly responsible for the deaths of a National Guard mother and her 11-year-old daughter is expected to return to Massachusetts to face charges. According to the Worcester District Attorney's Office, Dejan Belnavis appeared in a San Diego, California courtroom Friday and signed a waiver of extradition, clearing the way for him to return to Massachusetts.  Belnavis, 27, has been jailed in California since being apprehended Monday afternoon near the San Diego Zoo. A multi-state...

  • Russian National Guard special unit vanishes near Grayvoron amid intense fighting in Belgorod region

    A special unit of Russia's National Guard, the Rosgvardia, has mysteriously disappeared near the city of Grayvoron in the Belgorod region, where fierce fighting has been taking place, reports the Russian war channel Kremlyovskaya Tabakerka (the Kremlin tobacco box), citing its sources. The outlet noted that Moscow releases very little information about the fighting in the Belgorod region, as it negatively impacts the narrative around the re-election of Russian president Vladimir Putin, despite...

  • US School Begs for National Guard Help as Violence, Drug Use and Fight Clubs Erupt Daily

    Teachers working inside Brockton High School, the largest school in Massachusetts, US, have said that they are overwhelmed by the escalation of violent incidents by students.Some teachers have even admitted to turning a blind eye to fights among students inside the school to protect their safety.The school district has already requested police services more than 800 times this year, compared to roughly 1,100 counted in 2023, says Brockton's Police Chief.The school, home to more than 3,500...

  • 'Sit down or I’m going to beat your a ': School bus driver allegedly chokes student, drives off after security confronts him

    A Kansas City-area school bus driver allegedly choked a student last week then drove off after security confronted him — among other accusations, WDAF-TV reported.What are the details?Court documents indicate things started near Heritage Middle School in the city of Liberty, the station said. Liberty is about a half-hour northeast of Kansas City.The victim said the bus driver yelled to the back of the bus and said, “Sit down or I’m going to beat your a ," WDAF reported, citing court documents....

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    Lafayette Parish school buses to be equipped with air conditioning for 2024-25 school year

    The Lafayette Parish School System has announced it will install air conditioning units on 116 school buses

  • Zacc in schools anti-corruption drive

    By Ketty Nyoni [email protected] THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has embarked on a campaign to raise awareness against graft in schools countrywide To access this post, you must purchase a subscription. Please click the button below to visit our subscriptions page to select a package. Subscriptions

  • Suspended sentence and driving ban for drink-driver

    John McGinley of Glen Wood Walk in Letterkenny was charged in relation to two separate incidents. The court heard on Thursday that on August 2, 2020 police officers in Derry came upon an accident on the Clooney dual carriageway where a vehicle had overturned. The defendant was located nearby but denied being the driver and said he had been a passenger. A witness told police they had only seen one male in the vehicle but couldn't identify McGinley. While being taken into custody he said 'sure I...

  • How many drivers crashed during rainy weather in Massachusetts?

    There were more than 27,000 crashes in Massachusetts in the past three years during rainy weather.

  • Petrol shortages may affect holiday buses

    Bus services will run normally through Thursday at least in the capital region, and until Saturday in the Lahti region.

  • Altercation between migrants, National Guard caught on camera

    Tensions flared Thursday at the border wall in El Paso, as a large group of presumptive asylum-seekers pushed its way past Texas Army National Guard troops near a spot known as Gate 36.