Los Angeles school district bans use of cellphones, social media by students

Over 429,000 students in the nation’s second-largest school district will be prohibited from using cellphones and social media platforms during the school day after the Los Angeles Unified School District board passed the ban Tuesday. The Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education voted 5-2, approving a resolution to develop within 120 days a policy […]
A tale of two Great Falls: In the US, weather extremes rule

Great Falls is scorching hot. Great Falls is frigid. During a week of weather extremes in the U.S., it all depends on which Great Falls the mercury is measured. In Great Falls, Virginia, Luke Mraz, lugged a 100-pound hose around a golf course, spraying pond water over several acres of dry grass as the temperature climbed […]