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Aug. 10—ST. LOUIS — Soon after announcing his retirement on Tuesday morning, St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams quoted the Isley Brothers lyric "I got work to do" regarding his next move. He wants to find a way to keep helping kids in St. Louis after 14 years as head of the city's school district. "I care deeply about the kids in this city," Adams said in an interview. Adams, ...

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Aug. 10—Members of the Northern Colorado Martial Arts Academy and Team USA recently returned from the Pencak Silat World Championships in Malaysia. Jackson Taggart, who trains at the facility in Ault, placed sixth in the world. He advanced to the quarterfinals and competed against other athletes from 22 countries. Though he did not medal in his weight class, Taggart was invited to train with ...

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LOS ANGELES — Authorities investigating the crash in the Windsor Hills neighborhood that left five people dead are trying to sort out the actions and mindset of the nurse who prosecutors say plowed her Mercedes into the intersection. Investigators are still trying to get a full account of what brought Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, to the corner of Slauson and La Brea avenues last Thursday ...

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The St. Paul school board announced Wednesday that it will negotiate a third contract with Superintendent Joe Gothard. Gothard, 50, was running the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage district when the St. Paul board hired him in 2017 to succeed Valeria Silva. In a performance review last month, the school board rated Gothard “highly effective” in four of six areas: strategic plan implementation, ...

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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — America’s top diplomat on Wednesday was hoping to showcase the potential for democracy and climate action here in one of Africa’s largest countries. But backsliding reality got in the way. Within hours of U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s arrival in the Democratic Republic of Congo — as he repeatedly urged free, fair and “on time” presidential ...

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Looking for a competitive edge to attract and retain teachers during ongoing staff shortages, the Independence school board on Tuesday agreed to study transitioning to a four-day instructional week. The board unanimously voted to explore the idea, potentially joining a statewide trend of more Missouri districts adopting shorter school weeks. Independence Superintendent Dale Herl told the board ...

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Joseph Cassara decided to head back to the emergency room when the pain made it unbearable to swallow. "I tried to eat a banana for breakfast," he said, "and it just felt like I was swallowing razor blades." Cassara, 33, was still waiting on the test results to confirm that he had monkeypox, but was suffering scorching fevers and gruesome lesions on his cheek and chin that felt as if they were ...

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A massive debris flow triggered by flash floods that followed a wildfire in Northern California is believed to have killed scores of fish along a 50-mile stretch of the Klamath River last week. Intense storms sent flood waters coursing through an area recently burned by the McKinney fire, pushing charred soil, rocks and trees into the river near Humbug Creek, said Craig Tucker, natural ...

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LOS ANGELES — In the city where the car is king, activists are pushing to claim strips of the biggest boulevards for bicyclists and walkers. Their fight has played out at Griffith Park, where streets were recently closed after a cyclist was killed. It spilled out along the steps of City Hall where advocates staged a die-in. And now, it could make its way to the ballot box in a vote that will ...

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Authorities in Northern California have arrested a 75-year-old Hawaii man in connection with the rape and killing of a teenager in Sunnyvale nearly 40 years ago, using forensic genealogy to zero in on the suspect from his family tree. Gary Ramirez was arrested Aug. 2 at his home in Makawao on the island of Maui, the Santa Clara County district attorney's office said Tuesday. Once extradited, ...