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A literacy intervention program designed to help first-grade students in Kentucky learn how to read remains controversial as parents say it does more harm than good.

The Metropolitan D.C. police department identified the victim as 25-year-old Maxwell Emerson, and said they thought he and the shooter knew each other.

Kneehill County council will continue engaging with rural county residents living east of the Town of Three Hills to establish a water system in this region after a recommendation at the Tuesday, Jun

A new lawsuit claims that the Van Elslander familys 2017 sale of the furniture company to a private-equity company was doomed to fail.

sitting there. it wont make up its mind what it wants to do. you have to be very, very careful. >> reporter: but back in the bayou where theyre used to this kind of flooding curtis is taking the storm in stride. >> just cleaning everything off, waiting for it to come back. and then well go around and picking the worms up as the water goes down to go fishing again. >> meanwhile, katia regained hurricane strength in the middle of the atlantic ocean. it weakened to a tropical storm status...

we begin with breaking news in silver spring. a middle school student is facing an assault charge after shooting a classmate with a toy gun. it happened at briggs cheney middle school on cheney drive. elaine joins us now. >> reporter: this happened at the beginning of the school day. at first, investigators werent sure if they were bealing with a bb gun or something more serious. they did realize, however, this was a toy gun, still, they are taking this case seriously. were told that a...

and looking at george huguely. what we are told -- we actually learned from the daily press, newspaper here in charlottesville, that a certain much warrant was executed in the apartment of george huguely today and that they -- police were able to find a university of virginia lacrosse t-shirt with a red stain on it and a letter that was addressed to yeardley love. and they are going forward and gathering other information. they seized several other things from the apartment they think ...