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TAMPA, Fla. — The traditional elementary and middle school model is increasingly being replaced with a single school where students attend through high school.”I think our kids won’t have the anxiety of going from fifth grade to sixth grade and the big change in middle school. I think it’s big to have that continuity and be with the younger kids a little longer,” Leslie Koppuk said.Kenneth E. Adam The K-8 magnet school is the 14th K-8 school in Hillsborough County.Dozens of people involved with the new school gathered for a dedication ceremony Tuesday, including Scott Weaver, who served as principal…
The USA TODAY High School Sports Awards is pleased to announce the 2023-24 All-USA TODAY HSSA Boys Golf Teams, sponsored by Golfweek.Twenty-five members of the U.S. National Team will be recognized as nominees for the National Men’s Golfer of the Year award, with winners to be announced next month in a series of announcements announcing the top athletes across 35 men’s and women’s sports award categories, as well as special awards such as Special Olympics Athlete of the Year, Player of the Year and Team of the Year.Players were selected based on their overall season performance (with emphasis on state…
The biggest week of the year for video game players has arrived with the release of EA Sports College Football 2025. It’s the first new installment in the hugely popular video game series in over a decade, and gamers across the country are eagerly awaiting their chance to see what the game has in store. Also interesting is that the game features real-life rosters, a change made possible by NIL rules that didn’t exist when EA Sports stopped making video games after the 2014 edition. One of the effects that having real rosters has on the game is that it…
Guo Wengui, the Chinese exile businessman whose criticism of the Communist Party won him a huge online following and powerful friends in the U.S. conservative movement, was found guilty Tuesday by a U.S. jury of participating in a massive, years-long fraud scheme that defrauded some of his most ardent fans.Guo, once considered one of China’s richest people, was arrested in New York in March 2023 and accused of running an organized crime ring between 2018 and 2023.During a seven-week trial, he was accused of defrauding thousands of people who put their money into fake investments to support his lavish lifestyle.…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate Amol Kirtikar has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court challenging the election of Eknath Shinde’s Ravindra Waikal in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. In his election suit, Kirtikar has asked the High Court to set aside Waikal’s election as Member of Parliament from the Mumbai North West constituency and declare the constituency “void.” Kirtikar has also sought to be declared the duly elected candidate from the constituency, alleging that he had sought a recount of votes on the very day of the counting of votes due to discrepancies.Kirtikar lost to Waikal by…
Storms bringing heavy rain and tornadoes battered Illinois, flooding dams in the southern part of the state on Tuesday and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate their homes. Authorities said water overflowed from a dam near Nashville, Illinois, and emergency crews were dispatched to flooded areas to make sure everyone got out safely. No injuries were reported in an area of 3,000 people southeast of St. Louis, but emergency crews were dispatched to a home where a woman reported being in waist-deep water, said Alex Haglund, spokesman for the Washington County Emergency Management Agency. Authorities had earlier said about 300…
The situation at the time was that local residents of KP province were demanding military action against the TTP terrorists but both the government and the Pakistan Army were refusing to act. Two years ago, mass protests erupted in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. [KP] A province fighting the expansion of the Taliban in Pakistan [TTP] Terrorists in Swat Valley. Yet instead of treating this grave security concern expressed by the public with the seriousness it deserves, the Pakistan Army has inexplicably chosen to downplay the seriousness of the situation, saying that “misinformation has been created on social media regarding…
CNS Shandong launches aircraft in the Philippine Sea. Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force photo According to a news release issued by Japan’s Joint Staff Office (JSO) on Tuesday, the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s Shandong Carrier Strike Group conducted 240 fighter jet launches and recovery and 140 helicopter takeoffs and landings over a week in the Philippine Sea. The CSG remains deployed in the area. On Tuesday, the JSO released a statement on the daily location and composition of the Shandong CSG from July 9 through Monday. The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force’s destroyer JS Akebono (DD-108) and J.S. Kirishima (DDG-174), escort destroyer…
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Long before he became an assassin Shot and injured Former President Donald TrumpThe fuse of political violence was burning across America.A member of Congress was shot. A Virginia congressman’s staff member Attacked With a baseball bat. In Louisville, A bullet grazed him The mayor’s sweater was stolen after someone broke into his campaign office. Tracking Device A bomb was planted in the mayor of Reno’s car. South Carolina officials received death threats over a solar panel factory. Outside Buffalo, a man threw an imitation pipe bomb into the window of a county clerk candidate’s home while…
This is an election year, and political uncertainty is a top concern for businesses. Together news With presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday selecting former lawyer and venture capitalist Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate, the potential impact of a Republican bid for the presidency in 2024 on the business and regulatory sectors has become a top concern for companies. That’s because Senator Vance, who has positive views of both the cryptocurrency industry and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan, is seen as a maverick who deviates from traditional Republican economic views. The 39-year-old vice president candidate…