TORONTO — Ontario elementary teachers have taken the government to court over the province’s sex-ed curriculum in part because of a warning to educators that came along with it, their lawyer said Wednesday. A Toronto court is hearing a legal challenge from both the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association…
OKLAHOMA CITY – USA Softball, the National Governing Body of Softball in the United States, is proud to announce the selection of Michelle Moultrie (Jacksonville, Fla.) as the 2017 USA Softball Female Athlete of the Year. Moultrie, who has been a member of the Women’s National Team (WNT) since 2011, was a staple of the…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s top prosecutor said Thursday he’s seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged with ordering and carrying out the killing of dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. The disclosures by the prosecution appear aimed at distancing the killers and their operation from Crown…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Every year the NFCA National Convention provides its attendees with a diverse array of speakers. Additionally, coaches can continue their education by attending one of the Association’s five National Fastpitch Coaches College (NFCC) courses or take part in one of three pre-convention seminars. The NFCC courses bookend (Dec. 4-5 & Dec. 9-10) the convention…
Wall Street has suffered the worst start to December since 1980, with stocks showing no sign of recovery before the holidays. The Dow and the S&P 500 are heading toward their worst final month since the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost has 507 points, closing more than two percent lower on Monday….
The remains of a woman, believed to be from antiquity, with an elongated alien-like skull has been found during excavations of an ancient burial site in southern Russia. Since 2017 bones belonging to humans and numerous wild and domestic animals, along with a large number of ceramics, ornaments and bronze arrowheads have been discovered at…
TUCSON, Ariz. — Virginia Wesleyan won two games Sunday to capture the 2018 NFCA NCAA Division III Leadoff Classic at the Lincoln Park Complex. The top-ranked and undefeated (14-0) Marlins went 6-0 for the three days, and dealt Texas Lutheran its first loss of the season, 5-0, in both teams’ final tournament game. Earlier on…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia in the 1970s, when their reign of terror was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, were convicted Friday by an international tribunal of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan…
Russians have greatly changed their opinion of US President Donald Trump over the past year, with nearly a half of them now thinking negatively of him, Russian sociologists have found. According to the latest research conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), 46 percent of Russian citizens have expressed a negative opinion of the US…
Baton Rouge, La. — Scrap Yard Dawgs claimed their first Cowles Cup in franchise history with a 5-2 win over the USSSA Pride in the winner-take-all contest of the final series in the 2017 NPF Championship held at Tiger Park on the LSU campus. Rookie Kasey Cooper charged the offense with three RBI, the…