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Oceanside City Manager Forced Out; City Pays Him $289,000

The action wasn’t a total surprise because the City Council agenda said a closed session was being held to review and possibly dismiss City Manager Steve Jepsen. The decision was not unanimous.

Dr. Tetiana Sydorenko shows what was left of the Trostyanets hospital's maternity ward after the Russian bombardment, on April 19. She says the shelling was everywhere, "it was hell."

Ukrainian doctors describe delivering babies as Russia shelled the hospital

Residents in the small Ukrainian town of Trostyanets — the first to be liberated — detail some of the hardships they endured during the Russian invasion.

Schools are struggling to hire special education teachers. Hawaii may have found a fix

In Hawaii, hiring qualified special education teachers became a lot easier after schools started offering a $10,000 pay bump.

Steve Wilhite, inventor of the GIF file format, poses in 2013 at the Webby Awards in New York City. That year, the Webby Awards honored Wilhite with a lifetime achievement award. He played a GIF as his acceptance speech, which iterated the pronunciation as "jif," not "gif."

Beloved creator of the GIF dies following complications from COVID, wife confirms

Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, died at age 74 due to complications from COVID-19.

Denise Freeman (center), a former Lincoln County Board of Education member and community activist, calls a plan to consolidate polling places in the rural Georgia county "unconscionable."

A Georgia county set off a tense debate by planning to reduce polling sites

Concerns over Lincoln County's proposal suggest many election administration decisions will now be viewed through a lens of growing mistrust.

Teacher burnout and thinning substitute teacher rolls combined with the continuing fallout of the winter surge is pushing public school leaders to the brink of desperation. Lawmakers are responding by temporarily rewriting hiring rules.

Lawmakers are rewriting rules as schools grapple with teacher shortages

Burnout and thinning substitute teacher rolls plus the fallout of the omicron surge is pushing school leaders to the brink of desperation. Lawmakers are responding by rewriting hiring rules.

The Future Of The Afghan Girls Robotics Team Is Precarious

The teenagers made headlines when they came to Washington in 2017 for an international competition. Today they face a uncertain future with the Taliban again in charge of their homeland.

Willie Stokes walks from a state prison in Chester, Pa., on Tuesday after his 1984 murder conviction was overturned because of perjured witness testimony.

A Philadelphia man is free after serving 37 years because of a false witness

Willie Stokes, 61, was freed in a murder case marred by detectives who allegedly offered a witness sex and drugs at police headquarters in 1983 in exchange for false testimony.

Former Secretary of State and Bloom Energy Board member Colin Powell speaks during a Bloom Energy product launch on February 24, 2010 at the eBay headquarters in San Jose, California.

Colin Powell, a former secretary of state, dies at 84

Powell's family said that he died of complications from COVID-19, although he was fully vaccinated. Powell was a former general turned statesman who served as secretary of state under George W. Bush.

Pfizer's agreement with a U.N. group to let other companies produce its new antiviral pill as a generic drug is meeting with a mixed reaction. In late summer, protesters at Pfizer's world headquarters in New York urged the drugmaker to broadly share the patent for its COVID-19 vaccine.

Pfizer agrees to license generic versions of its COVID-19 pill — in some countries

The agreement covers 95 nations, but it omits hard-hit countries such as Russia, Turkey, Brazil, and Mexico. Pfizer said it is seeking authorization for emergency use of the medication in the U.S.

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