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Schools nationwide struggle with substitute teacher shortage

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Carrie Swing wasn’t alarmed when her fifth-grade daughter, Ivy, spent a day in a first-grade classroom at her San Francisco…

Police, other groups try to calm down tensions in Ferguson

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) With measured remarks and a conciliatory tone, police, political leaders and civil-rights activists on Thursday sought to tamp down tensions after two…

Maine senator won’t resign over post tying Obama to IS group

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) – A state senator said Wednesday that he has no intention of resigning over a series of offensive Facebook posts, including one…

War memorial separates dead by race, divides Southern city

GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) — Along Main Street in a small South Carolina city, there is war memorial honoring fallen World War I and II soldiers,…

Carl Heastie elected first Black speaker of New York Assembly

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Carl Heastie was elected speaker of the New York state Assembly on Tuesday, making him the first African-American to hold the…

Racial politics churn Miss. GOP Senate runoff

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Race is roiling the Republican Senate runoff in Mississippi, a state with a long history of racially divided politics where the…

A place in history for gay, transgender Americans

NEW YORK (AP) — The announcement Friday that the National Park Service will begin installing markers at places of importance to the history of lesbian,…

Public smoke-out marks pot holiday in Colorado

DENVER (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers raised joints, pipes and vaporizer devices to the sky Sunday at a central Denver park in a…

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