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An Indiana school board of trustees president is under fire after defending the boards order to have LGBTQ pride flags removed from three high school classrooms at Pendleton Heights High School. Last week the school district ordered the flags removed from French, Spanish, and art classrooms, claimi...

Indiana School Bans Pride Flags on Grounds Theyre Political The school board president said allowing Pride flags could lead to allowing white supremacist flags — and some students and parents are outraged. May 20 2021 8:45 PM EDT Three teachers at a high school in Indiana have been ordered to remove Pride flags from their classrooms on the grounds that the flags make a political statement — and some students and parents are incensed. Connie Rickert, principal of Pendleton Heights High Sch...

Three teachers at Pendleton Heights High School were reportedly ordered to take the flags out of their classrooms.

View Comments Students at Pendleton Heights High School are asking their district to reconsider its policies after several teachers were told to remove pride flags from their classrooms last month. Bryce Axel-Adams, a junior at Pendleton, started an online petition to allow the flags to be displayed again. He had hoped for several dozen supporters — he’s received nearly 3,000 signatures as of Thursday morning. “As a freshman, I remember walking by (a teacher’s) classroom,” Bryce said....

Apr. 16—PENDLETON — Before the first pitch of the Madison County Softball Tournament semifinal was ever thrown, Alexandria softball coach Sarah Almack knew her team was in for a long night. "Even in our warm-ups, I looked at my assistant and said, 'Was yours as bad as mine?" she said. "Yep. The name Pendleton Heights, bigger school, they always dominate. Even a few years ago when we played in ...

Police ID woman fatally shot in Kansas City neighborhood March 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police have identified a woman found fatally shot in Kansas Citys Pendleton Heights neighborhood. The woman, identified Friday as 25-year-old Deja Veal, was found by officers who were on patrol nearby around 10 p.m. Wednesday when they heard gunshots. Veal was found lying in the street along Wabash Avenue after the officers searched the area, police said in a news release. Arri...

Police find woman fatally shot in Kansas City neighborhood March 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A woman is Kansas Citys latest homicide victim after officers found her fatally shot in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood, police said. The officers were on patrol nearby around 10 p.m. Wednesday when they heard gunshots and searched the area, police said in a news release. They found the woman lying in the street in the 500 block of Wabash Avenue. Arriving paramedics pronou...

KCPD launches double homicide investigation in northeast KCMO KCPD launches double homicide investigation in northeast KC and last updated 2021-03-02 00:01:00-05 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two people were found dead inside of a burning car Monday night in a residential area of northeast Kansas City. The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department received 911 calls around 5 p.m. regarding both the sound of shots and a traffic crash in a scene located between the Pendleton Heights and South Indian Mou...

PENDLETON — The Pendleton City Council approved a land deal for a new, 70-unit affordable housing project on the east side of South Hill, potentially contributing to one of the

Pendleton Heights High School graduate Kyle Hupfer has been named general counsel of the Republican National Committee.