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It’s 6:30 p.m. on a school night, and a normally quiet residential street in Glendale is crowded with protestors, loudspeakers and angry shouts. On the afternoon of March 9, residents from across the Valley descended on Washington Elementary School District’s office to express their support or outrage with the board’s refusal to renew a contract with Arizona Christian University allowing its students to do their student teaching in the district.  The unanimous move by the district’s governing board was based on an anti-LGBTQ statement of faith the university requires its students to commit to because it is in opposition to…

WASHINGTON: The dramatic implosion of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week could bring the Federal Reserve’s current cycle of interest rate hikes to an end far sooner than many analysts expected. Traders and analysts who had previously predicted that the Fed would increase the pace of hikes to tackle inflation have now dialled back their expectations, with some saying the US central bank will hold its benchmark rate next week due to the troubles in the banking sector. Last week’s collapse of SVB and New York-based Signature Bank marked the biggest banking failures since the 2008 global financial crisis. It…

To attract transfer students from the tri-state area,  Adelphi University is offering a program that ensures that their annual tuition will be $10,000 or less  for up to four years of coursework that leads up to a bachelor’s degree. The program is called the “Transfer Tuition Guarantee,” and it aims to not only attract but support high-achieving transfer students. “This program is ideal for students who went off to school but didn’t find the right fit, are completing their program at a local community college, or have been out of college for a while but are ready to resume their…

Two people were feared missing on Tuesday morning after a crane toppled in stormy weather near the southern city of Ashkelon. A police statement said the crane had collapsed due to strong winds at the Rutenberg power station on the coast near the city. The structure had apparently been located on a pier and fallen into water. Rescuers were dispatched to the scene during the pre-dawn hours after two men were thought lost offshore. One of the men was found shortly after with light injuries, but as daylight broke, police said a fisherman who had been in the area was…

Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, a pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, died Monday night. She was 82.Schroeder’s former press secretary, Andrea Camp, said Schroeder suffered a stroke recently and died at a hospital in Celebration, Florida, the city where she had been residing in recent years.Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government.Her unorthodox methods cost her important committee posts, but Schroeder said she wasn’t willing to join what she called “the good…

Grant’s Monday Night Forecast Spring-like weather continues through Tuesday. Another storm will bring more rain, snow and wind to New Mexico later this week. Scattered rain and snow showers passing across parts of New Mexico tonight will taper off through the early Tuesday morning. We have one more relatively mild and quiet day on tap Tuesday before a very active pattern continues Wednesday. Our next storm system will arrive Wednesday and will begin a very active several days of weather. Winds will pick up across the eastern New Mexico and will bring an elevated fire danger. Meanwhile, rain and mountain…

Aaron Rodgers should get flagged for delay of game.  The four-time MVP quarterback continued to keep the Jets, the Packers and the entire NFL world waiting on Monday. Expectations were that Rodgers would announce his decision Monday morning before the free agency negotiating window opened at noon. But that time came and went and as of Monday evening, the world was still waiting to hear from Rodgers.  The Jets were not panicking Monday and there still is a belief around the NFL that Rodgers will ultimately be traded to the Jets, but Jets fans’ blood pressure was rising on Monday…

An Inverness man was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to what officials called a COVID-19 testing fraud scheme. Zishan Alvi, 44, who co-owns and operates a laboratory in Chicago, faces 10 counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government funds. According to prosecutors, Alvi’s company obtained more than $83 million from a federal program that paid for tests. Officials said that from February 2021 to February 2022, the lab delivered inaccurate and unreliable test results to the public by cutting corners or in some cases not testing submitted material at all. “The charges…

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Local parents are trying to stop a teen who’s known on social media for throwing parties at homes where parents are out of town. Andrew Brodie and his wife were backcountry skiing Saturday when notifications from their home surveillance cameras started popping up on their phone. ‘Unusual pink coloring’ seen in treated water sent into Clear Creek “As we summited the mountain, our Ring doorbell went off,” Brodie said. “All of a sudden there’s a kid climbing up my ladder trying to break into my house.” Teens try to break into locked home Video shows…

Russian advance stalls in Bakhmut – CBS News Watch CBS News Russian forces failed to gain any ground in their advance on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut over the last 24 hours. Imtiaz Tyab has more on Ukraine’s brutal fight to hold the city. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by PostX News and is published from a syndicated feed.)