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(Photo : Spencer Platt/Getty Images) New York City Announces Its Closing Schools Again Due To Coronavirus
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 18: A school bus drives down a street in Brooklyn on November 18, 2020 in New York City. Public schools in New York City, the largest school district in the nation, will close again on Thursday, officials announced after the city reached a 3% Covid test positivity rate.
Authorities said Thursday that a former Army trainee who attempted to flee boot camp by hijacking a school bus full of children had attempted to escape detention again since his arrest. Jovan Collazo, 23, tried to escape prison and a hospital after being charged with keeping a bus driver at gunpoint as 18 children sat as passengers.
Richland Two students still required to wear masks despite Governorâs order (Source: Bernadette Heier) By WIS News 10 Staff | May 11, 2021 at 10:03 PM EDT - Updated May 11 at 11:55 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The Richland Two School District has announced that students will still be required to wear face masks despite Governor McMasterâs executive order.
District officials released a statement to parents and school employees saying that masks will be required on school campuses.
âThis evening Governor McMaster issued Executive Order 2021-23, attached, that has language pertaining to the use of face coverings in South Carolina public schools. Due to the lateness of the Order, the legal ambiguities, and the absence of a DHEC opt-out form, the state face-covering guidelines will remain in effect until such time as the agency has the opportunity to confer with legal counsel and provide further guidance.â
Army trainee from N.J. hijacked school bus in South Carolina, authorities say
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This image released by the Richland County, S.C., Sheriff’s Department, shows Jovan Collazo, an Army trainee, who was arrested and charged with dozens of crimes after authorities say he boarded a South Carolina school bus with a gun Thursday, May 6, 2021, and held the driver and elementary students hostage before letting them off the bus.Richland County Sheriff’s Department via AP
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An Army trainee from New Jersey has been arrested and charged with dozens of crimes after authorities say he boarded a South Carolina school bus with a gun Thursday and held the driver and elementary students hostage before letting them off the bus.
Armed U.S. Army Trainee Hijacks South Carolina School Bus Full Of Children
Jovan Collazo “got a little frustrated” and ordered the bus stopped after the children peppered him with questions, said Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) An Army trainee has been arrested and charged with dozens of crimes after authorities say he boarded a South Carolina school bus with a gun Thursday and held the driver and elementary students hostage before letting them off the bus.
During a news conference, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said the incident started at around 7 a.m. near Fort Jackson, the U.S. Army’s largest basic training facility, located in Columbia. The trainee, dressed in physical training clothes, “ran off post and escaped” with a rifle from the installation, Lott said. Deputies then started receiving calls about someone standing on a nearby interstate flagging down cars.