Substitute teacher dismissed after singing Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ A Texas substitute teacher was asked to leave early after singing Britney Spears’ “Toxic” on a karaoke machine he brought to the classroom. According to KXAN-TV, the substitute was asked to leave Friday after he was recorded by students at a high school in Austin’s Independent School District.
BAGHDAD – A small clay tablet dating back 3,500 years and bearing a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh that was looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago and recently recovered from the United States formally returned to Iraq on Tuesday.
OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Michigan’s attorney general said her office won’t be the agency to conduct a school district’s planned third-party investigation into the events at Oxford High School that occurred before last week’s school shooting that left four students dead.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The European Union drug regulator gave its backing Tuesday to mixing different types of vaccines in initial vaccination and booster campaigns to battle the disease caused by the coronavirus.
WASHINGTON – In an abrupt reversal, an attorney for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said his client will not cooperate with a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, citing a breakdown in negotiations with the panel.
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport's collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night and owners immediately locked out players in a move that threatens spring training and opening day.
Missouri head men’s basketball coach Cuonzo Martin has made it clear in his time leading the Tigers: He’s willing to play anyone, anywhere, anytime. That leads to games like Missouri played Thursday night: a true road contest against Liberty, the three-time defending champion of the Atlantic Sun Conference.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs' Andy Reid is an offensive-minded coach to his core, so the Kansas City defense must have done something special against the Denver Broncos on Sunday night for him to call its performance "beautiful."
QUEEN CITY — Even though both Brookfield High School basketball teams came close to avoiding the fate, both the Lady Bulldogs and Bulldogs went winless in last week’s Tri-Rivers Classic tournament and entered this week still searching for elusive victory No. 1 of 2021-22.
There were multiple positive moments for all of the non-Brookfield high school basketball teams from Linn County and nearby schools last week, but, not unexpectedly, the best week belonged to Meadville’s Lady Eagles.