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A mother in Florida is looking to put a stop to bullying and cyberbullying, after her 12-year-old daughter jumped to her death last year.Rebecca Sedwick, a student in the Polk County School District, was often the victim of extreme bullying at school, officials said.
Two people have been shot inside a Philadelphia high school.Philadelphia Police say the shooting happened around 3:30 p.m. at the Delaware Valley Charter School at 5201 Old York Road in the Olney section of the city.Police confirm that an adult male and a juvenile female were hurt in the shooting.
Gov. Chris Christie’s office and 12 of his allies have been ordered to turn over documents to a special committee investigating the George Washington Bridge scandal, state lawmakers revealed Friday.
This month we recount President Lyndon Johnson announcing in his 1964 State of the Union an “unconditional war on poverty in America,” fifty years ago. He said, “Our chief weapons in a more pinpointed attack will be better schools, and better health and better homes, and better training and better job opportunities to help more Americans, especially young Americans, escape from squalor and misery and unemployment rolls where other citizens help to carry them.” It is this myriad approach that many rail against today, believing that efforts such as Medicaid, Head Start, federal training programs and urban renewal failed.
The commonwealth of Massachusetts is joining a national trend to expand voting rights. While some states are moving in the other direction, more states expanded voting rights in 2013 than contracted them; and the trend is likely to continue in 2014. First up, the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill, H. 3788, that significantly expands the voting rights of residents. The bill passed by a 37–1 vote. It is similar to a House bi–ll that passed 141–10 last year. A conference committee will have to mend the differences between the two bills, but with the overwhelming majorities that passed it in each house and strong vocal support from Gov. Deval Patrick (D), the bill seems likely to become law.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday declared a drought emergency in California, where rivers and reservoirs are dangerously low after one of the driest years on record, and asked the people to cut their water use by 20 percent.He did not rule out mandatory conservation measures later.
The family of the Ohio man executed with a new cocktail of drugs on Thursday is pursuing a lawsuit to assure that other death row inmates do not experience the same unusual execution circumstances that the 53-year-old rapist did, the family and their attorney said Friday.
More than 220 workers who have been locked out of their jobs at a Kellogg’s Memphis, Tenn., plant since October will be honored and supported as part of Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day actions in Memphis.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito are unveiling a plan that would expand the number of city businesses required to provide paid sick leave for their workers by tens of thousands. Under the proposal, set to be released in Brooklyn today, any company with five or more workers would be required to provide some form of paid sick leave. According to The New York Times, the new rules would bring New York more in line with other cities, which already have similar rules.
Firefighters made progress early Friday against a wildfire — apparently sparked when papers were tossed into a campfire — that tore through two and a half square miles of brush and forced thousands of people from their homes in the foothills outside Los Angeles.
