MICHAEL MELIA

August 2, 2019 at 10:22 am

Man who killed calf in Home Depot lot charged with cruelty

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A butcher shop employee who cut the throat of a runaway calf in a Home Depot parking lot has been charged...

July 22, 2019 at 10:00 pm

Male nominees to service academies outnumber women 3 to 1

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The percentage of female students nominated by members of Congress for admission to U.S. service academies has been rising, but men...

July 16, 2019 at 4:01 am

Cyberattacks inflict deep harm at technology-rich schools

AVON, Conn. (AP) — Over six weeks, the vandals kept coming, knocking the school system's network offline several times a day. There was no breach...

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In this May 8, 2019, photo, third-grade student Miles Stidham uses an East Webster High School laptop to do homework in Maben, Miss. The Stidhams are unable to get internet at their home in the country, so they take advantage of the internet in the school’s library. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) JX201 JX201

June 9, 2019 at 9:01 pm

AP: 3 million US students don’t have home internet VIEW

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — With no computer or internet at home, Raegan Byrd's homework assignments present a nightly challenge: How much can she get done...

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In this April 25, 2019, photo, science teacher Sarah Ott speaks to her class about climate literacy in Dalton, Ga. Teachers across the country describe struggles finding trustworthy materials to help them teach their students about climate change. (AP Photo/Sarah Blake Morgan) RPSM201 RPSM201

May 14, 2019 at 9:41 pm

Many online climate change lessons are actually junk

There are classroom materials produced by climate-change doubters, lesson plans developed by the oil industry, and countless other websites with misleading or outdated information. One...

Parents pick up their children at STEM School Highlands Ranch after a shooting in Highlands Ranch, Colo., near Denver, on Tuesday afternoon, May 7, 2019. Two suspects who carried out the armed attack have been identified as Devon Erickson and a juvenile female, the authorities said on Wednesday, as they continued to investigate the assault that reached “deep inside the school.” (Nick Cote/The New York Times) XNYTF XNYTF

May 9, 2019 at 9:52 pm

‘Run, Hide, Fight’ mindset making way into US schools VIEW

While many schools have stuck with the approach of locking down classrooms and waiting for police, some experts say staff and students need as many...