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Tenn. official to fill Virginia chief schools officer post

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has hired a Tennessee education official to serve as Virginia’s chief schools officer after the previous employee in the role resigned for reasons the administration has declined to explain.Tennessee Chief Academic Officer Lisa Coons will take over the role of Virginia superintendent of public instruction effective April 17, the Virginia Department of Education announced Wednesday.“Dr. Coons’ proven leadership will serve Virginia’s students, families and teachers well and help make Virginia’s education system best-in-class,” Secretary of Education Aimee Rogstad Guidera said in a statement. “She has demonstrated success in addressing learning loss, creating and implementing evidence-based literacy policy and practices, and building strong partnerships with teachers, communities, school and division leaders, and parents.”Coons’ hiring was announced less than a month after Jillian Balow said she was stepping down from the post. Balow did not s...

Gotas contaminadas con peligrosa bacteria han causado al menos 3 muertes en EEUU

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

NUEVA YORK – Al menos tres personas murieron y otras cuatro debieron someterse a operaciones para removerles uno de sus ojos debido a una rara infección bacteriana ligada a gotas para los ojos contaminadas, según reportaron el martes los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés). La agencia federal ha identificado a 68 pacientes en 16 estados contagiados con pseudomonas aeruginosa, un tipo de bacteria resistente a los antibióticos. Ocho pacientes perdieron la visión en al menos uno de sus ojos. Algunos debieron someterse a un trasplante de córnea. Los CDC confirmaron que las personas afectadas utilizaron algunas de las tres marcas de gotas para la vista actualmente retiradas del mercado antes de experimentar síntomas de la infección — EzriCare Artificial Tears, Delsam Pharma’s Artificial Tears y Delsam’s Artificial Eye Ointment.  Abuela hispana demanda a fabricante de gotas para la vista ...

2 faculty members shot at Denver East High School

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Two faculty members were shot at Denver East High School on Wednesday morning, Denver Public Schools said. The two victims, who are deans at the school, were transported to local hospitals.According to Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas, the suspect is a male student that was under a safety plan to be patted down each day before entering the school. During that search, the student got hold of a weapon and shot the two faculty members.Thomas said the student then fled the scene, however, DPD knows who the student is and is looking for him. According to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, he said the suspect is described as a juvenile wearing a hoodie with an astronaut on it. He is considered armed and dangerous. Denver East High School has history of weapons, violence Thomas said one victim is in serious but stable condition and the other is in surgery and listed as critical. A high-ranking source close to the school district told FOX31 that the suspect is a transfer student ...

Denver East High School has history of weapons, violence

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Denver East High School, the city's largest school, has a history of violent crime and property crime. Two adult staff members were shot at the school Wednesday morning by a student for whom the school had a safety plan that included being patted down each day, Denver police said. As of late Wednesday morning, the suspect was not in custody. Latest Updates: 2 adult faculty members shot at Denver East High Since 2018, Denver Police Department records document dozens of crimes at Denver East High School. These include four aggravated assaults, two of which consisted of felony menacing with a weapon. There have also been two bomb threats, three threats to injure and two weapons charges. East High School is the largest high school in Denver, with over 2,500 registered students.

What we know about the Denver East High School shooting suspect

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Two adult faculty members at Denver East High School were shot Wednesday morning while searching a student who attended the school.According to Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas, the student, who is younger than 18, was being searched as part of a safety plan. Latest updates on Denver East School shooting A source with connections to the district told FOX31 this safety plan was in effect because the student had previously been expelled from another district for weapons. FOX31 is working to confirm this information with additional sources.During the search, DPD says a handgun was found and at that point shots were fired. The student ran away from the scene but investigators do know who he is. Data desk: East High School has a history of weapons, violence According to the source, this search was not being conducted by the usual faculty member.The two faculty members who were injured were taken to the hospital. As of 11 a.m. one of them was in serious but stable condi...

2 juveniles arrested in Littleton armed robbery

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

LITTLETON, Colo. (KDVR) — Police in Littleton were searching for three armed robbery suspects and temporarily had placed two nearby schools on secure perimeter. According to the Littleton Police Department's tweets, the robbery occurred at Promise Park near the intersection of South Bannock Street and West Powers Place. Rapidly spreading deadly fungus already in Colorado, presents ‘urgent’ threat LPD said the suspects ran away after the robbery.Littleton High School and Littleton Prep were on secure perimeter but were cleared for dismissal around 3:45 p.m. People who live nearby were asked to shelter in place, but that was lifted around 4:15 p.m.At around 7 p.m., LPD took two people into custody.Littleton Police released vague descriptions of the suspects, all three are Hispanic males between the ages of 14 and 17 years old, and all three were dressed entirely in black clothing. One had curly dark hair, one had a short crew cut and one was wearing a mask and hood. One had white an...

Police: 2 school administrators shot at Denver high school

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Two school administrators were shot at a Denver high school Wednesday morning after a handgun was found during a search of a student, authorities said.The juvenile suspect remained at large and the gun was not immediately recovered following the shooting at East High School, Police Chief Ron Thomas said.The shooting happened at around 10 a.m. in an area away from classrooms as the student was undergoing a daily search as part of a “safety plan,” officials said. One of the administrators was critically injured and is undergoing surgery. The second victim was in stable condition, Thomas said.Police know the identity of the suspect and were confident they would apprehend him, he said.“He obviously is armed and dangerous and willing to use the weapon, as we’ve learned this morning,” said Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, warning the community as they search for the suspect.Earlier this month students from the school skipped class and and marched to Colorado’s state Capit...

Ukraine sees no way to negotiate peace with Putin after war crimes warrant

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

KYIV — Last week’s international arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin over the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia has made it impossible for Kyiv to accept Russia’s president as a potential interlocutor for any peace deal to end the war. The International Criminal Court issued its warrant on Friday. The crime of children being forcibly taken to Russia is especially sensitive as Ukrainian and Western lawyers identify the deportations as falling within the legal definition of genocide, as part of an attempt to wipe out Ukrainian cultural identity. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office head and representative of Ukrainian negotiations group in Istanbul, promptly tweeted that identifying Putin as “an obvious international criminal directly means there will be no negotiations with the current Russian elite.” Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov also told POLITICO it would be hard to imagine ho...

UN’s Guterres wants EU to ease Belarus sanctions. The EU isn’t so sure

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is flying to Brussels to deliver a simple message to EU leaders on Thursday: Stop world hunger.How? By ensuring that Russian and Belarusian fertilizers reach developing countries despite sanctions against the two countries, according to European diplomats with knowledge of the discussions.Belarusian potash fertilizers were sanctioned in 2021 after President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime forced a Ryanair flight with an opposition journalist on board to land in Minsk and launched a crackdown on its opponents that continues to this day. With the sanctions further tightened the following year, exports of potash fell by nearly 70 percent.Most EU countries want to counter the narrative, heralded by Russia, that EU sanctions are preventing food and fertilizers from reaching food-insecure countries. Russia kicked up a fuss over the recent extension of a U.N.-brokered deal that enables Ukraine to export food from its Black Sea ports, complaining that a...

Man gets 4 1/2 years for role in $8M online romance scam

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man convicted of helping steal millions of dollars from hundreds of people in online romance scams, often regaling the victims with stories of oil rig explosions and foreign jails, has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison.Kofi Osei, 30, and his alleged accomplices from 2016 to 2020 targeted mostly older people seeking companionship by creating fake online dating profiles, prosecutors said in a statement Tuesday.They gradually gained their victims’ trust before directing them to transfer money to one of dozens of bank accounts Osei opened using fake passports, aliases and phony business names, federal prosecutors said in a statement. Once the money was in the bank account, it was quickly withdrawn.Some of the money was used to buy cars that were sent to Nigeria and sold, prosecutors said.The scheme received more than $8 million in proceeds, $4 million of which went directly into accounts that Osei opened and controlled, prosecutors said.Among th...