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JACKSON, Tenn. — When he looked to the future, Grayson Hart always saw a college degree. He was a good student at a good high school. He wanted to be an actor, or maybe a teacher. Growing up, he believed college was the only route to a good job, stability and a happy life. The [...]
The Pritzker Architecture Prize — the highest honor in the field — this week was awarded to British architect and urban planner David Alan Chipperfield, hailed for "a commitment to an architecture of understated but transformative civic presence." Organizers called Chipperfield's work — more than 100 projects over four decades ranging from cultural, civic and [...]
BOSTON (AP) — Growing up in New England, Leah Ofsevit's most cherished childhood memories were blanketed in snow. She remembers running barefoot outside with her brother at the first sign of it, building snowmen and ice castles most winters, strapping on skis as a toddler. Ofsevit and her husband, Jeremy Garczynski, want to pass those [...]
BOSTON (AP) — Evena Joseph was unaware how much her 10-year-old son was struggling in school. She found out only with help from somebody who knows the Boston school system better than she does. Her son, J. Ryan Mathurin, wasn't always comfortable pronouncing words in English, but Joseph, a Haitian immigrant raising him by herself, [...]
CHICAGO — Army recruiters struggling to meet enlistment goals say one of their biggest hurdles is getting into high schools, where they can meet students one on one. They received a recent boost from a recruiting advocate whom school leaders couldn't turn away: the secretary of the Army. During three days of back-to-back meetings across [...]
Researchers at The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business found that an individual’s political ideology largely determined how the person perceived COVID-19-era fixtures such as social-distancing floor markers and Plexiglas barriers. The study, which was published recently in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, found that conservatives were more likely than liberals to reject the [...]
DENVER (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said her agency will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands under an order that calls for the federal government to tap into Indigenous knowledge in its efforts to conserve the burly animals that are an icon of the West. Haaland was expected [...]
CHOWCHILLA, California (AP) — Joseph Sena has spent nearly half his 27 years in prison for manslaughter. For almost as long, he's been striving to make himself a better man than when he first arrived. He has taken courses in creative writing, addressed his addictions, and attended school in prison, hoping to be judged fit [...]
SHAMONG, N.J. — Sprawling across 1.1 million acres of pine trees, sandy soil, remote wetlands and home to rare plants and animals, the New Jersey Pinelands is the personification of the free-as-a-bird Great Outdoors. Locals speak passionately of walking or riding through the woods that their parents or grandparents introduced them to, hiking, fishing, hunting [...]
According to a survey, colleges and universities have been slow to create policies, educational programs or restrictions on sports betting among high-risk students. The findings by The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism were announced amid an aggressive expansion of sports gambling and abundant advertising at some college campuses — on scoreboards and banners at [...]