Day: June 12, 2023

Reading levels still behind for Kansas school that reopened quickly after COVID

6:15 pm June 12, 2023

Students spread out in their rural Kansas classroom, answering questions with a partner about invaders atop elephants attempting to sack Rome more than 2,000 years ago. “Do you want to read?” one of the third graders, Parker, asked his partner after the lesson on the Punic Wars. “Because I’m not really good.” Bekah Noel told […]

Elizabeth Hurley celebrates her 58th birthday in a bikini, unveils ageless physique

6:07 pm June 12, 2023

Elizabeth Hurley celebrated turning the big 5-8 by rocking an itsy-bitsy string bikini. The British model, actress and swimwear designer, who celebrated her birthday on June 10, took to Instagram and shared a photo of herself jumping for joy while at the beach. The star wore a sapphire-hued two-piece, featuring a triangle top with silver […]

Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan leaving newspaper amid staff turnover, financial struggles

6:05 pm June 12, 2023

Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan announced Monday he will leave the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” paper, as it grapples with staff turnover and declining online subscribers. Ryan, who served as the chief executive of billionaire Jeff Bezos‘ Post for the past nine years, will exit to lead the Center on Public Civility at the […]

Utah mom Kouri Richins Googled ‘luxury prisons for the rich’ after allegedly killing husband: docs

6:05 pm June 12, 2023

Kouri Richins, a Utah mom of three and children’s book author accused of killing her husband last year, allegedly Googled “luxury prisons for the rich” after his death, according to new court documents. Prosecutors say Richins, 33, poisoned her husband, 39-year-old Eric Richins, with fentanyl the evening of March 3, 2022, at their home in […]

Tragic shooting in Stockholm suburb leaves 2 dead, 2 injured in apparent gang feud

5:18 pm June 12, 2023

A shooting outside Stockholm left two people dead and two others wounded, police said Monday, in what appears to be a feud between criminal gangs. An unidentified foreign man and a teenager were killed in the shooting in Farsta, a suburb south of Sweden’s capital. Two men in their 20s were later arrested on suspicion […]