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Hotter Summers Making High School Football a Fatal Game for Some Players

BRANDON, Mississippi (AP) — Soon after Ashanta Laster reached the hospital, she was ushered into the emergency room where she saw doctors performing CPR on her teenage son. Laster had gotten a call that 17-year-old Phillip Laster Jr., a lineman …

Beware of Hidden Email Addresses: TN School Transferred $3M to Fake Account

A school district in Tennessee temporarily lost more than $3 million after a district employee was duped into sending funds to a fake vendor. The finance director for the Johnson County Board of Education, in northeast Tennessee, in March wired …

14-Year-Old Dies After Collapsing During Football Practice in Alabama

NEW BROCKTON, Ala. (AP) — A 14-year-old football player in Alabama died Tuesday after collapsing during afternoon practice. Semaj Wilkins, a freshman at New Brockton High School, suffered a medical emergency early in practice Tuesday afternoon, Coffee County Coroner Arnold …

West Virginia Bill Would Allow Teachers to Carry Guns at School

West Virginia’s Republican-dominated Legislature pushed forward a slate of contentious bills Wednesday that would arm teachers, allow people to sue libraries over books that offend them and restrict where transgender kids can use the bathroom at school. Described by conservatives …

Parkland Deputy’s Legal Team Says He had No Duty to Confront Gunman

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida sheriff`s deputy is claiming he had no legal duty to confront the gunman who murdered 17 people and wounded 17 others at Parkland`s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School nearly six years ago, …