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Boston exam school admissions policy ire hits school committee

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:17 GMT

Five months have passed since exam school admission under the district’s new policy came out, but parents aren’t moving on.“You know how hard it is, not to be angry at you for willing to continue with this policy as it is?” said BPS parent Mano Katsompenakis. “This is my daughter you’re talking about. First you call her an unintended consequence — she’s a human. And now this proves that all her hard work was for nothing.”BPS adopted a new exam school admissions policy in the last year, intending to increase diversity and opportunity in the schools.On top of a student’s testing score and GPA points, the new system awards 10 additional points to students who attend a school enrolling 40% or more economically disadvantaged students and 15 points to students who are in state care, in affordable housing or homeless. Students are broken into eight socioeconomic tiers based on the demographics of where they live, and each tier is alloca...

10 people, including 4 police officers, injured in crash, shooting on South Side

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:17 GMT

CHICAGO — Fire officials say ten people, including four Chicago police officers, are injured after a shooting and crash on the city's South Side on Saturday.Fire officials say the shooting happened near the 7100 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue in Grand Crossing and the crash happened near East 54th Street and South State Street in Washington Park. Read more: Latest Chicago news headlines According to the Chicago Fire Department, a male is in critical condition and a woman is in fair condition after they were shot near the Third District police station on Saturday afternoon and eight others were injured following a crash in Washington Park.Fire officials say four people were taken to the hospital in fair condition and the three officers were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Fire officials added that a fourth officer who was injured transported themselves to an unknown location.Currently, it is unclear what led to the crash, and fire officials did not pr...

Affy Tapple hosts family fun day in Niles

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:17 GMT

NILES, Ill. — The World renowned Affy Tapple company hosted a family fun day in celebration of its 75th anniversary Saturday in Niles. More from Sean: Co-founder of Go brewing with non-alcoholic drinks WGN's Sean Lewis travelled to the Northwest Suburbs to see what all the caramel apple anticipation was about at the time of year where the time is just right to indulge in one of Chicagoland's favorite fall treats.

Coolest night since April coming before a Sunday warmup

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:17 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Highs today in the mid 70s were the coolest since May and tonight's lows should be the coldest since April!We'll have a partly cloudy to mostly clear sky tonight as some of the clouds we've had on Saturday thin out. Still, it will be clear enough with light enough winds to allow temperatures to drop into the low 50s with some Hill Country spots starting Sunday morning in the 40s!Sunday morning low temperaturesAs winds swing around from the northeast to the southeast we'll notice warmer temperatures on Sunday with highs near 80º in the afternoon, it's fair to say ACL Weekend One will end without any weather worries.Sunday forecast at ACLTemperatures warm into the mid 80s on Monday.Three features we're watching this week. Tropical Storm Lidia in the eastern Pacific, a cold front and a Pacific Low.Tropical Storm Lidia will try and throw moisture and potentially some rain and storms our way Tuesday into Wednesday. Tropical Storm Lidia may throw rain into Texas next we...

Instant Analysis: Sooners QB Dillon Gabriel created many of Texas' problems

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:17 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Oklahoma quarterback Dillon Gabriel didn't play in last year's Red River Rivalry due to a concussion, so this year was his time to give the Longhorns headaches.Gabriel rushed for a career-high 113 yards and engineered the go-ahead drive late in the fourth quarter to lift the No. 12 Sooners to a 34-30 win over No. 3 Texas on Saturday at the Cotton Bowl.Gabriel drove Oklahoma 75 yards in about a minute to set up a 3-yard game-winning touchdown pass to Nic Anderson with 0:15 left in the game. Texas had a chance with a hail mary at the end of the game, but Quinn Ewers' pass was batted down at the goal line.Jonathan Thomas and Billy Gates discuss the game in this edition of Instant Analysis.

Prominent Minnesota lawyer arrested for allegedly hitting I-35 worker in Pine County

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:17 GMT

A prominent Minnesota attorney was arrested Friday after allegedly striking a construction worker on Interstate 35 and fleeing the scene.James Patrick Carey, 64, reportedly failed to stop after hitting the worker on the right shoulder of the northbound lanes near Hinckley at approximately 11:41 a.m., according to the Minnesota State Patrol.James Carey, president and managing partner of the SiebenCarey law firm in Edina, was arrested was Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, after allegedly striking a construction worker on Interstate 35 in Pine County and fleeing the scene. (Courtesy photo)His 2016 GMC Acadia was found a short time later near Moose Lake and he was taken into custody, authorities said. Alcohol was reported to be a factor in the incident.Carey is president and managing partner of the SiebenCarey law firm, which is based in the Twin Cities. The firm, which advertises extensively across Minnesota, is one of the oldest and largest personal injury practices in the state.Carey, of Edina, ...

Mother of girl who witnessed shooting of 14-year-old girl asks for help in her disappearance

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:17 GMT

The mother of a 12-year-old St. Paul girl whose friends were shot, one fatally, this week is pleading for anyone who knows where her daughter is to get in touch so the girl can come home.Police say the girl was last seen when officers dropped her off at her house the night of the shooting.It is believed that the girl then left her home and went into hiding.“She says she doesn’t feel safe,” her mother, Shaquantae Bates, said Saturday during a news conference held at the site of the shooting.On Wednesday about 7:45 p.m., multiple 911 callers and an officer on patrol reported hearing gunshots, which led officers outside an apartment building on Hazelwood Street near East Maryland Avenue.Officers found 14-year-old Monica Joy Holley, two other girls, 13 and 15 years old, and a 19-year-old woman had been shot outside the apartment building. Paramedics took them to the hospital. Monica died. The other victims have injuries that aren’t life-threatening, police said.Monica ...

Tommies make another last-second goal-line stand to get past Butler 17-10

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:17 GMT

St. Thomas won its third straight Pioneer Football League game on Saturday at O’Shaughnessy Stadium, edging Butler 17-10. And for the third straight week, the game reached its final seconds before the outcome was decided.For the second week in a row, the Tommies (4-2, 3-0 PFL)) needed a goal-line stand to preserve victory. That, after the conference opener was decided by a touchdown pass in the closing seconds that broke a tie game.“I can say that it’s gritty, but I think it’s more than that,” St. Thomas head coach Glenn Caruso said. “This is not necessarily the way we drew it up, but one of the things I love about our little team — and we’re nothing special — is that they are able find ways to have incremental successes, to stack those on top of each other to put them in position to come through at the end.“That’s a quality nowadays that is quite lost, when people are looking for the big win. But don’t get me wrong, I’m fine if we could win by, like, two scores.”Butler (4-2, 2-1) s...

Top 25 songs in St. Louis on Shazam in the past week

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:17 GMT

Doja Cat's "Paint the Town Red" has been at the top of the charts for months now. It's broken Spotify record after Spotify record: the most streams in a single day for a female rap song, the first solo female rap song to top Spotify's U.S. Top 50 chart, and the fastest solo female rap song to hit 100 million streams in the platform's history. The song, which was released in early August, has also been sitting comfortably at the top of the list of the 200 most Shazamed songs across the U.S. But joining it now is her latest single, "Agora Hills," for which she just dropped the video in late September.Of course, that's hardly the only new song on Shazam's Top 200 chart. Millennials are relishing the return of Justin Timberlake and 'N Sync, who, after reuniting at the MTV Video Music Awards in September, have a new song for the upcoming "Trolls" movie called "Better Place." Not only that, but Timberlake and Nelly Furtado both appear on Timbaland's new single "Keep Going Up," the trio's ...

Common scams circulating in California, here's what to look out for

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:17 GMT

A series of scams have infiltrated the Golden State causing the California Department of Justice to provide ways to stay protected. Here's a list of scams circulating California and how to avoid them:$20 Bill ScamThe $20 bill scam involves a stranger pretending to return a $20 bill that they say a potential victim dropped, according to the Yuba City Police Department. This usually happens after a scammer learns of the victim's debit card pin number by watching them at an ATM.Moments later the scammer will get the victim to open their wallet and ask for the money back. During the process, the victim gets distracted while the scammer(s) steal the debit card right from under the victim's nose without them knowing. Officials advise people to use caution when using a debit card or providing personal information in a public place. It's also recommended to pay close attention while handling financials in the presence of strangers. Are your old coins and bills valuable? Expert explains w...