School’s Transgender Bathroom Rules Fought at 11th Circuit
An attorney for a transgender teenager asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to require a Florida school district to allow the teen to use the bathroom matching his gender identity.
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Zimmerman Files $100M Lawsuit Against Trayvon Martin Family
George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted of murdering black teen Trayvon Martin in 2012, is suing Martin’s family as well as an attorney and prosecutors for malicious prosecution and defamation in an explosive $100 million lawsuit filed Wednesday.
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Greta Thunberg, ‘Energized,’ Keeps Up Her Climate Fight
Climate activist Greta Thunberg told cheering supporters Tuesday that her three-week journey across the Atlantic had “energized” her for the fight against climate change as she arrived in Portugal.
Read moreWisconsin Officers on Front Lines in Two Student Shootings
Wisconsin high school resource officers have found themselves on the front lines in two student shootings in the past two days, underscoring how police in schools can face life-or-death situations and likely adding to the debate over the best ways to respond to school threats.
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Parents sued the Round Rock (Texas) Independent School District in federal court, claiming its co-defendant administrator and teacher exploited their daughter by using her anorexia nervosa the subject of a yearbook story about “mental illness.”
Read moreGreta Thunberg Arrives in Europe for UN Meeting
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived by catamaran in the port of Lisbon after a three-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States.
Read moreOfficer Shoots Armed Student at Wisconsin High School
A Wisconsin police chief says an officer shot an armed male student at a suburban Milwaukee high school after the suspect refused to disarm and pointed his gun at officers.
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Prince Andrew’s Accuser Gets Specific on BBC
Prince Andrew suffered fresh scrutiny Monday night when the woman who says she was a trafficking victim made to have sex with him when she was 17 asked the British public to support her quest for justice.
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A mother sued Chi Sigma Phi sorority and California State University Fullerton in Orange County Court, claiming her daughter died of alcohol poisoning from a sorority initiation.
Read morePopular Black Alabama Sheriff Shot to Death; White Teen Arrested
An 18-year-old white man has been arrested after a popular black sheriff in Alabama was shot to death Saturday evening, and condolences poured in to Lowndes County from law enforcement officers nationwide.
Read moreSouth LA Teen Arrested Over Threat of Mass School Shooting
A 13-year-old student who threatened to carry out a shooting at his South Los Angeles middle school had a list with the names of students and staff, a hand-drawn map of his school, and an AR-15 assault rifle at his home when he was arrested, police said Friday.
Read more‘Ghost Gun’ Used in Deadly LA-Area High School Shooting, Police Say
When 16-year-old Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow shot his classmates at Saugus High School in California on Nov. 14, he used a gun that was not made through conventional means and was not registered, law enforcement revealed Thursday.
Read moreAccused Colorado School Shooter Fights to Be Tried as a Minor
A Colorado teen suspected of orchestrating the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch this past May that resulted in the death of a classmate began making his case Monday to be tried in juvenile court.
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Prince Andrew’s Sex Claims Rebuttal a PR Disaster
British media on Sunday slammed Prince Andrew’s effort to rebut claims that he had sex with a teenager who says she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein, branding his televised interview a public relations disaster.
Read moreSuspected Gunman in LA County School Shooting Dies
The 16-year-old boy who shot and killed two fellow students and wounded three others before turning the gun on himself Thursday morning has died, authorities in Los Angeles County said Friday evening.
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Greta Thunberg Hitches Low-Carbon Ride Across Atlantic
Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg hitched a renewable-energy ride back to Europe on Wednesday, sailing into the Atlantic on a trip she hopes will get her to Madrid in time for another climate conference, and then home for the holidays.
Read moreAfter-School Shooting
An appeals court in Texas ruled Kody Austin Lott was properly convicted of murder and aggravated assault for killing a 13-year-old girl and wounding another. Lott confessed to shooting at the students with an AR-15-style rifle as they walked home from school. He told police he had “just wanted some people to feel a little bit of pain.”
Read moreSnap-Chatting Cheerleader Defends Speech Rights at 3rd Circuit
A lawyer for a cheerleader kicked off of her high school squad over a scurrilous Snap post urged the Third Circuit on Tuesday to affirm their courtroom victory.
Read morePorn Site Owner Charged With Child Sex Trafficking Amid Fraud Trial
GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, a fugitive believed to be in New Zealand, was charged Thursday for allegedly producing child porn and sex trafficking related to a 2012 incident involving a 16-year-old.
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