Day: April 5, 2023

Auburn’s Hugh Freeze receives support for scrimmage game to end spring practice

4:00 pm April 5, 2023

Auburn head football coach Hugh Freeze wants to shake things up in his first year of coaching on the Plains. Instead of ending spring practice with the traditional spring game, Freeze wants to scrimmage another school. “Alabama can play Troy and we play UAB or vice versa, or whoever, I don’t care. Alabama State or […]

US rolls out funding to build wildlife crossings in response to high wildlife-vehicle collisions rate

3:14 pm April 5, 2023

Native American tribes, as well as state and local governments, will be able to tap into $350 million in infrastructure funds to build wildlife corridors along busy roads and add warning signs for drivers in what federal officials are billing as the first-of-its-kind pilot program to prevent collisions and improve habitat connectivity. U.S. Transportation Secretary […]

MT judge upholds lawsuit claiming that a constitutional requirement over Native education has not been upheld

3:11 pm April 5, 2023

A judge in Montana refused to dismiss a lawsuit Tuesday brought by Native American tribes, parents and students against state education leaders that alleges the state’s unique constitutional requirement to teach students about Native American history and culture has not been upheld. “It’s shocking to me that we are this many decades down the road, […]

GOP Rep. Dan Knodl wins open Wisconsin Senate seat, creating a Republican supermajority in the chamber

3:08 pm April 5, 2023

Republican state Rep. Dan Knodl defeated a Democratic attorney to win an open Senate seat in Tuesday’s special election, creating a GOP supermajority in the chamber that could be used to impeach Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and other office holders. Knodl defeated Jodi Habush Sinykin in the 8th District race. The seat represents Milwaukee’s northern […]

California school district pays $13M after a mother was shot in the back of the head by school safety officer

3:08 pm April 5, 2023

The Long Beach Unified School District will pay $13 million to the family of an 18-year-old woman who was shot by a school safety officer as she sat in a car, their attorneys announced Tuesday. The money settles a wrongful death lawsuit filed over the Sept. 27, 2021 killing of Manuela “Mona” Rodriguez. “I personally […]