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'She just wants a friend': Families push for full school days for children with disabilities
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Advocates say schools across the U.S. are removing students with disabilities from the classroom, often in response to challenging behavior, by sending them home or cutting ba...
Jody Heemstra Jun 21, 2023 j.sanna / CC
More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) - 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 advant...
Jody Heemstra Sep 25, 2023
Communities can't recycle or trash disposable e-cigarettes. So what happens to them?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to get rid of millions of disposable e-cigarettes that are considered hazardous waste. The devices contain nicot...
Jody Heemstra Oct 21, 2023 Vaping360 / CC
A nurse's fatal last visit to patient's home renews calls for better safety measures
WILLIMANTIC, Conn. (AP) - The killing of a visiting nurse in Connecticut is sparking renewed calls to better protect health care workers from what has been a rise in violence across the country. Joyce...
Jody Heemstra Dec 07, 2023
South Dakota Community Foundation reveals first round of 2021 Community Innovation Grant recipients
Round 1 of the South Dakota Community Foundation 2021 Community Innovation Grant program has been completed. Fourteen South Dakota nonprofits will receive grant awards. Offered in partnership with the...
Jody Heemstra Jun 07, 2021
From marching bands to megastars, the Super Bowl halftime show emerges as a major sports spectacle
LOS ANGELES (AP) - When the Super Bowl halftime show was born, college marching bands were the main on-field attraction. But over the years, the intermission during the NFL's annual championship game ...
Jody Heemstra Feb 03, 2024
High-speed trains begin making trip between Orlando and Miami
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023: ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A privately owned high-speed passenger train service has been launched between Florida's two biggest tourist hubs. The Brightline train is a $5 billion bet by ...
Jody Heemstra Sep 26, 2023 Phillip Pessar / CC
South Dakota legislator calls for inquiry into Gov. Noem's Texas dental trip and promo video
MARCH 14, 2024: UNDATED (AP)- A Democratic legislator on Wednesday (March 13, 2024) called for an inquiry into South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem's trip to Texas for dental work and a promotiona...
Jody Heemstra Mar 14, 2024
Biden 2024 splits Dems but most would back him: AP-NORC poll
APRIL 21, 2023: WASHINGTON (AP) - A poll shows only about half of Democrats think President Joe Biden should run again in 2024, but a large majority say they'd be likely to support him if he became th...
Jody Heemstra Apr 22, 2023 GPA Photo Archive
Farm Bill Doubtful to Override California's Prop 12
JULY 7, 2023: Farmers and ranchers are slightly more optimistic that Congress will get a new farm bill passed this year. However, Successful Farming says they don't think the farm bill will get used t...
Jody Heemstra Jul 07, 2023 DonkeyHotey / CC