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- Hudson, 7, left, Callahan, 13, middle, and Keegan Pruente, 10, right, stand outside their school on their first Monday home during the new four-day school week on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, in Independence, Mo. Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in recent years, mostly in rural and western parts of the U.S. Districts cite cost savings and advantages for teacher recruitment. Still, some experts question the effects on students who already missed out on significant learning during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Nick Ingram)
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More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press
Mon,09/25/23-12:06AM , 351 Reads
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — It's a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano.
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- Books are displayed on a free library shelf inside the classroom of Richard Evans, a teacher at Hyde Park Elementary School, on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Stuck with distance learning as they began grade school, the kids who are now finishing elementary school were the ones most disrupted by COVID, with alarming delays in their reading ability. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)
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Children hit hardest by the pandemic are now the big kids at school. Many still need reading help
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press
Fri,09/01/23-11:06PM , 754 Reads
They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their names and tie their shoes when schools shut down in the spring of 2020.
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- This undated photo provided by Ben Crump Law shows Ralph Yarl. Andrew Lester, the man accused of shooting Yarl in April 2023 when the teenager showed up at the wrong house to pick up his brothers, faces a preliminary hearing on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. Lester is charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the April 13 shooting. He has pleaded not guilty. (Ben Crump Law via AP, File)
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White man will stand trial for shooting Black teen Ralph Yarl, who went to wrong house, judge rules
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press
Thu,08/31/23-11:47AM , 387 Reads
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge ruled Thursday that the 84-year-old white homeowner who shot a Black teenager after he mistakenly went to the man’s house must stand trial.
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- Demonstrators gather outside Cup Foods to celebrate the murder conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis. Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of Floyd's death, Attorney General Merrick Garland will be in Minneapolis on Friday, June 16, 2023, “on a civil rights matter.” DOJ spokeswoman Dena Iverson on Thursday, June 15, declined to say if the police department investigation will be the subject of the news conference at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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6 key points from the scathing report on Minneapolis police after George Floyd's killing
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press
Fri,06/16/23-6:08PM , 337 Reads
The Justice Department on Friday issued a scathing assessment of Minneapolis police, alleging that racial discrimination and excessive force went unchecked before George Floyd's killing because of inadequate oversight and an un
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Current Temp

80°F

Mostly Sunny

Chance of Rain: 60%
Max Temp: 83°F
Min Temp: 64°F
Feels Like: 90°F
Dew Point: 66°F
Humidity: 100%
Sunrise: 6:50 AM
Sunset: 7:20 PM

Wind Speed: 10 mph
Wind Direction: S
Wind Gust: 9 mph
Sky Cover: 82%
Visibility: 7 mi
Dew Point: 66°F
Moon Rise: 7:15 PM
Moon Set: 6:25 AM

A chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1pm and 5pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely. Mostly sunny. High near 83, with temperatures falling to around 80 in the afternoon. South wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

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