(CNN) — A 13-year-old Mississippi girl has died just one day after testing positive for coronavirus, according to Smith County School District Superintendent Nick Hillman. The girl wasn’t feeling well last Thursday and her mother kept her home, Hillman said. The teenager tested positive Friday and was taken to a hospital. According to Hillman, she […]
The deadline for Coachella Valley students to submit clean energy-themed artwork that could be enlarged and wrapped around local buses was extended Monday for another two weeks. Students participating in the SunLine Transit Agency’s sixth annual Student Art Contest have until just before midnight on June 28 to submit their work. The original deadline was […]
Federal student loan payments are set to resume on October 1, after an unprecedented 19-month suspension that was put in place to provide financial relief to borrowers during the pandemic. Borrower balances have effectively been frozen for more than a year, with no payments required on federal loans since March 2020, when Congress first authorized the pause […]
A Florida school district is investigating an incident that happened at an elementary school after a mother secretly recorded her 6-year-old being paddled on the buttocks by staff, the school district tells CNN. The student’s mother said she received a call from Central Elementary School in Clewiston, Florida, on April 13 saying that her daughter […]
Parents, Students, and Teachers were welcomed to La Quinta High School on Saturday to receive the Pfizer vaccine. NBC Palm Springs spent the day talking to those getting vaccinated and to educators who say these types of clinics will prepare students and staff for the fall school year. “I was so excited when desert oasis […]
Kevin Puckett, a former California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, says news about the arrests in Kristin Smart’s disappearance nearly 25 years ago sent shock waves across the alumni community. Paul Flores, a freshman at the same university was arrested and charged with her murder and his father Ruben was also arrested as […]
A student at James Madison Elementary School in Indio has tested positive for coronavirus. Officials with Desert Sands Unified School District tell NBC Palm Springs the student is isolation and, “Due to all masks and distancing guidance in place at the site and classroom, no students or staff were deemed close contacts at the site; […]
