A civil lawsuit filed against Oxford Community School District this week accuses administrators of putting students in danger by allegedly downplaying the actions of the accused gunman before a shooting that left four students dead and seven other people injured.  Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old suspect, posted “countdowns and threats of …

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem announced on Tuesday that she has proposed legislation to her state to ban women and girls from playing on female sports teams. The legislation is the latest in the governor’s efforts to issue the ban at both the high school and collegiate level.  The draft …

Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton was knighted Wednesday, just days after a controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where Lewis came in second and was denied a record-breaking eighth championship. Hamilton was knighted by Charles, Prince of Wales during a ceremony at Windsor Castle. The 36-year-old driver for Mercedes was considered …

Skeletal remains found nearly 40 years ago have been identified as those of a guitarist who once played with the R&B group The O’Jays and also co-wrote a few of their songs, investigators said. Authorities used DNA and genealogical research to identify the remains of Frank “Frankie” Little Jr., which …

An economist will tell you it’s a hot labor market: A record number of people quit their jobs in September, and the U.S. is seeing record job openings as the economy chugs back to life from the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic drove millions of workers into early retirement — and …

Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press. Roughly five hours after numerous companies and other organizations began reporting issues with Amazon Web Services, the …

A former Arizona nurse was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman at a long-term care facility where she later gave birth. Nathan Sutherland received the maximum punishment called for under his agreement to plead guilty to sexual assault.  He also received lifetime …

For 26 years, Ernest Ray worked at a company in southwest Virginia that made compressors, in a physically demanding job that involved night shifts on a factory floor. When the plant closed in 2018, Ray applied for and received about $9,000 in unemployment benefits. Three years later, Ray is fighting …

Former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said Sunday on “Face the Nation” that he thinks “at some point” Americans who received the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines would be considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 after three doses, although likely “not this year.”  “I think eventually this will be considered the three-dose …

An Iowa man was convicted Tuesday of killing a man last year and leaving his body burning in a ditch. A jury found Steven Vogel, 32, of Grinnell, guilty of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse in the death of Michael Williams, 44, whose body was found burning in …