AAA backs air bag cutoff switch plan in education push
The American Automobile Association urges a federal OK for manual air bag cutoff switches and pledges a nationwide education campaign. NHTSA weighs allowing retrofitted deactivation amid safety debates and industry split on risks and costs. About 15,000 people have asked for permission to disconnect an air bag.
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UnityFest Prompts Soul-Searching In Michigan Town
Dorothy Kye founded Hate-Free TC to counter a planned NordicFest music festival by white supremacists near Traverse City. Officials say the event may be on private land and not illegal, while tensions grow as residents report threats, vandalism, and activist responses aimed at promoting diversity and unity.
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Mich
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Michigan
Traverse City
Cher Wilson
Principal who banned interracial dating named superintendent in Alabama
In Wedowee, Alabama, Huland Humphries, 60, white, took the oath as Randolph County school superintendent after vowing to balance budgets and oversee a new gym. Black parents fear renewed bias stemming from his past as high school principal who threatened to cancel the prom over interracial dating and who called a mixed-race student a mistake. The former principal was reassigned after a 1994 arson fire that destroyed the high school.
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Ala
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Randolph County
Henry Sterling
Humphries
Sterling
Children rise in early education and college completion
A government report shows more children attend early education programs and graduate college, with higher immunization and lower infant deaths, yet more adolescents smoke and use drugs. It notes rising violence against young black males since the 1980s and that children from families earning under $15,000 are 22 times more likely to be abused or neglected. The study, ordered by President Clinton, calls for better measures of homeless and poor children.
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Washington
Fur and slobber: deer crashes into Briarcliff home
A 70 pound dog and a frightened deer caused chaos when the deer leaped through a screen into a Briarcliff Manor home. The deer knocked over a chair and left hoof marks before escaping through a window and jumping into the above ground pool. The family was away at the time and their Labrador mix Maddie faced the intruder.
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N.Y
Joe DeMilia
New York City
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