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A Tennessee prosecutor said he will drop criminal charges against elementary school children. Parents protested the arrests.

A new study uncovers bias in how Virginia disciplines its students. This adds to the voices calling for alternatives methods of correcting student behavior.

In today’s Ericaism, Erica Campbell reads a scripture from the bible about planting the word in your heart. She reminds us that we are all products of our environments, and that what we feed ourselves is what we’ll be made of. Sometimes, we must be strong in positivity despite the negativity that might be littered around […]

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Forty-one-year-old Aitabdel Salem, a native of Algeria, spent five months on New York's Rikers Island because, uhm, officials failed to tell him that bail was set at $2.

Police arrested a Texas teacher for having a sexual relationship with her adolescent male student. She claims his parents approved of the relationship.

Florida prosecutors revealed that a grand jury found enough evidence to charge Raja with manslaughter by culpable negligence and attempted first-degree murder with a firearm.

In this Faith Talk, Erica Campbell reminds us that sometimes God challenges you to do something that nobody before you has done. But being the first is not an easy path to walk! You don’t have the advice or the example of somebody who’s been there before you to give you the confidence you need to […]

The woman, who asked to remain unidentified, delivered by cesarean section Tuesday at Hackensack University Medical Center. She is visiting from Honduras.

U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said the government would have had to establish without a reasonable doubt that the officers acted willfully, with the specific intent to do something the the law forbids.

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Police in California are searching for an active gunman after two people were shot and killed at the University of California, Los Angeles Wednesday. The identities of the victims has not been released. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/738071926028013568 The shooting reportedly occurred in Engineering Building IV. Officials placed the campus on lockdown as police and SWAT officers swarmed the […]