Middleborough, Mass. (TND) — A 12-year-old middle school student is speaking up after he said he was sent home from school for refusing to remove a T-shirt that read: "There are only two genders."
Liam Morrison, a 7th grader at John T. Nichols Jr. Middle School in Middleborough, Mass., told the Middleborough Public Schools board during an April 13 meeting that he was removed from his gym class a few weeks prior by school staff and told to take off his shirt because people were complaining that it was making them feel unsafe.
UPDATE:Cambria County, PA — The manner of death for the 18-year-old male involved in a drowning at the local Holiday Inn, located on the 200 block of Market Street, in downtown Johnstown, has been ruled as accidental, by Cambria county coroner Jeff Lees.
Lees says there were no other factors found to be in play for the man's death.
ORIGINAL:911 officials in Cambria County say first responders were dispatched for a drowning at a local hotel on Sunday.
NEWARK, Del. (TND) — A University of Delaware student was arrested after she went on "an antisemitic tirade" and vandalized a Holocaust memorial sponsored by a Jewish student group, according to the Delaware Department of Justice. The DOJ said 23-year-old Jenna Kandeel faces three charges, including one for committing a hate crime, as well as criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. In a news release, Attorney General Kathy Jennings said officers from the University of Delaware Police Department arrested Kandeel Wednesday evening after witnesses told authorities she damaged several flags at the memorial and "
CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — As icicles hang from tree branches, ice is also clinging onto power lines as temperatures hit 'real feels' of single digits.
Penelec officials say that's believed to be the cause of Friday's power outage in the Ebensburg area, which impacted over 4,000 customers.
Ebensburg resident Julie Doyle says her family was affected by the outage.
"We were at home all day just waiting for the power to come back on,"
(TCS) — Pennsylvania struggles to get more housing built to relieve a statewide shortage.
For rural parts of the commonwealth, communities are in a position similar to rural towns across America.
An analysis of housing in rural Illinois shows that problems are common, but solutions are as rare as a cheap apartment.
“The insufficient supply of housing partially explains why housing costs are one of the key factors driving inflation,” noted Mark White, a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.