5 h. ago Greater Manchester school bus, sushi bar and pie shop named amongst the best in the country

They have been praised for experimenting with flavours and menus

Politics

8 h. ago Man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump on golf course set to represent himself in court

A man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump last year in South Florida is set to represent himself during a pretrial conference on Tuesday, as final preparations are made for trial.

Politics

28 h. ago Parents call for transparency as village school bus campaign gathers pace

Over 900 signatures have been lodged backing a petition calling for school transport in Sandford to be reinstated.

Politics

3 d. ago Execution date set for Florida man who fatally stabbed married couple during 1990 robbery

A Florida man who fatally stabbed a married couple during a robbery is scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis

Events

3 d. ago Sheriff Buford Pusser inspired a film starring The Rock. Now after 58 years, police say he likely murdered his wife Pauline Mullins Pusser

Pauline Mullins Pusser was gunned down in 1967 — in what her husband called an attempted ambush on his life. But 58 years later police have a different version of events

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4 d. ago Her husband’s life inspired a film starring The Rock. Now after 58 years, police have answers in Pauline Mullins Pusser’s murder

Pauline Mullins Pusser was gunned down in 1967 — in what her husband called an attempted ambush on his life

Events

4 d. ago Further extra buses introduced in bid to solve Dumfriesshire school transport issues

McCalls have announced there will an extra 246 bus at both the start and end of the school day.

Politics

5 d. ago Couple fume as school bus stop installed at end of their drive

"That wasn’t in any consultation. At no point did they ever say the stop would be there. When I got home from work last week I was honestly in disbelief."

Transport

6 d. ago Kids in Upper Nithsdale village denied school transport despite living in catchment area

Pupils in Kelloholm are having to use a service bus which gets to Sanquhar Academy an hour before the school day begins.

Politics

6 d. ago When science meets music: Florida’s oyster decline is being told through jazz

A professor teamed up with student musicians to inspire interest in data about the ‘catastrophic scale’ of the crisisA university professor has set her team’s research on the plight of Florida’s declining oyster population to music, aiming to inform a receptive new audience about the “catastrophic” scale of the crisis.Heather O’Leary, professor of anthropology at St Petersburg’s University of South Florida (USF), partnered with student composers and faculty from its music department to create Oysters Ain’t Safe, a soft jazz alternative to crunching data into a “boring” technical report. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Police film Florida man ‘setting off sprinklers to soak disabled children’ getting on school bus

A man in Florida was arrested after he allegedly turned on his sprinklers to spray water on disabled children getting on a school bus.

Events

1 week ago Trump administration to expand review of Smithsonian museums to ‘get Woke out’

Exclusive: White House flagged institutions including those for Latino, African and Asian art for review, document showsAmid the Donald Trump administration’s heavy-handed review of Smithsonian museums, the Guardian has seen a document compiled by the White House that argues the widely visited cultural institutions have overly negative portrayals of US history, from a Benjamin Franklin exhibit that links his scientific achievements to his ownership of enslaved people and a film about George Floyd’s murder that it says mischaracterizes the police.The document, based on public submissions shared with the administration, shows that seven museums have so far been flagged for review: the National Museum of American History, National Museum of the American Latino, National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of African Art, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of Asian Art. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Parents petition council as school bus is scrapped 'putting kids in danger' at 60mph road

Those attending their catchment mainstream secondary school will now only be entitled to transport where they live more than three miles away from school.

Transport

1 week ago Grown man's disgusting bullying of disabled children because he was upset at school bus for stopping outside his home

Antonio Roman, 61, was arrested by deputies with Marion County Sheriff's Office after repeatedly using the sprinkler system on the family next door to him in Ocala.

Society

1 week ago Florida man accused of setting off his sprinklers at disabled children because he was mad about their bus stop

Antonio Roman was charged with four counts of stalking, two counts of battery on a disabled person and two counts of battery

Politics

2 w. ago Florida man convicted of killing a woman abducted from an insurance office is set to be executed

A man convicted of kidnapping a woman from an insurance office in the early 1980s and killing her is set for execution in Florida

Events

2 w. ago Execution date set for Florida man who killed estranged wife's sister and parents, set fire to house

A Florida man who fatally stabbed his estranged wife’s sister and parents and then set fire to their house is scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis

Events

2 w. ago Babysitter weeps as she's given enormous sentence for delivering disabled children to pedophile boyfriend so he could rape them

Brittney Mae Lyon touted her interest in working with special needs children in online ads for her childcare services.

Society

2 w. ago A84 review underway to enhance road safety for crossing school children

Transport Scotland is conducting a review and is consulting with Kincardine-in-Menteith Primary School to look at potential improvements to the A84 past the school, the church hall and bus stops there.

Politics

2 w. ago Female babysitter asked to care for disabled children because her pedophile boyfriend liked sexually abusing them

Brittney Lyon, 31, procured at least four young girls , two aged three and two aged seven, for her partner Samuel Cabrera, 31, to molest while she participated in 2016.

Events