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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Five Massachusetts college students appeared in court Thursday, accused of plotting to lure a man to their ...

Laura Caron, a 5th-grade teacher at Middle Township Elementary School, allegedly had an "inappropriate sexual relationship" with the student when ... allegations in this case represent a deeply ...

WORCESTER ― The five adult Assumption University students charged with kidnapping ... as well as a conspiracy charge in connection with the case, which has made national headlines and brought ...

Police also charged students Isabella Trudeau and Joaquin Smith, both 18, as well as a juvenile in connection with the case. All five students are charged with kidnapping and conspiracy ...

The Faith Hedgepeth murder case is one step closer to trial ... His arrest came nearly 10 years after Hedgepeth, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was found beaten ...

In the Assumption case, police alleged the charged students coordinated to lure the man to campus, then falsely alleged on a text thread to a group of other male students that someone was coming ...

In 2023-24, 67 districts had an increase over their previous year’s enrollment. Under the state’s education funding system, fewer students means ... that averaging and use the single year ...

A 25-year-old woman arrested for abetting a law student's suicide was granted interim ... floor,” said a senior police officer probing the case. High-rise residents alerted the police.

The surge in immigrants arriving in Colorado last year softened the enrollment decline in the state’s public schools, which for years have been losing students — and funding — as birth rates ...