The mother of Oxford High School mass shooter Ethan Crumbley took the stand in her historic criminal trial. Also in the news: Nathan Wade faces new scrutiny as he is under fire for an alleged affair with Georgia's district attorney investigating Donald Trump. Will Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow this morning? | |  |
Here is the news to know Friday. |
Mom of Michigan school shooter takes the stand in historic criminal trial |
Jennifer Crumbley, the first parent in America in charged in a mass school shooting, testified Thursday that she was an attentive mom who never saw signs her teen son Ethan would kill four children at his Michigan high school in November 2021. Ethan Crumbley, 15, was sentenced in December to life without the possibility of parole plus an additional 24 years. |
But prosecutors have argued that Crumbley's parents knew their son was struggling with alarming mental health issues, including on the day of the shooting. | Jennifer Crumbley on Thursday Jan. 25, 2024, enters the courtroom to begin her trial in Pontiac, Michigan. Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press |
A year after a train derailment, these Ohio families have nowhere to go |
Ohio officials announced that it was safe for residents to return to East Palestine five days after the Feb. 3, 2023 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train and subsequent release of hazardous chemicals in the town. Within eight days, by Feb. 9, Norfolk Southern will end aid for families who relocated to other areas following the derailment. Many of them cannot afford to live outside of East Palestine without financial assistance from the company. They don't consider their East Palestine homes to be safe, and they're worried that moving back will worsen their symptoms. Read more | Officials in an incident area assess remaining hazards in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 7, 2023. AP |
Millions of American students may have just weeks to compare college financial aid offers |
While applying for financial aid is rarely a stress-free endeavor, this year has been especially tricky. That's because the Education Department upended college application season when it made long-awaited improvements in December to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. The rollout of those changes, however, has been filled with delays and unforeseen problems. The latest hiccup occurred this week when the Biden administration said colleges and state agencies wouldn't start receiving students' FAFSA information until the "first half of March" at the earliest. In a normal year, schools would have had that data on hand months earlier. |
A scrappy threat in Ukraine, or a woe-is-me coping mechanism? |
Ever since Russia's Feb. 24, 2022, invasion, Ukraine has relied on humor to cope. There was the Ukrainian grandmother who shot down a Russian missile with a jar of pickles. There's been copious references to cult movies and talking cartoon dogs. But as the war drags on and sinks deeper into a messy deadlock, some say the jokes are getting harder to pull off. But the fighting is still intense. Russia has renewed its onslaught of missile attacks on Ukrainian cities and towns that appear to indiscriminately target civilian infrastructure. Since the war's outbreak nearly two years ago, more than 10,000 civilians have been killed. The country is exhausted from the war, and too tired to smile. |
Here's what to know about the Fani Willis scrutiny |
Former President Donald Trump has launched a legal effort to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, her office and Nathan Wade, her top prosecutor, tossed from the election fraud case against him. Trump alleges that Willis engaged in misconduct by hiring an unqualified friend and alleged romantic partner to lead the sprawling prosecution. Now, as Willis faces accusations, Wade's work in another high-profile case investigating suspicious deaths in an Atlanta-area jail is also being placed under a microscope. Accusations that Wade mishandled the jail-deaths investigation in 2020 are adding to questions about Willis's judgment in hiring him. Read more |
Photo of the day: America's favorite forecaster Punxsutawney Phil | Groundhog Club handler A.J. Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil on Feb. 2, 2023. Barry Reeger/Associated Press |
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