November 26, 2016
2016
Lawrence High School honor roll
First-quarter honor roll for the 2016-17 academic year.
Students complained about Tennessee bus driver weeks before fatal crash
‘It feels like the bus is going to flip over,’ one student said of Johnthony Walker’s driving. Walker is now charged with vehicular homicide.
Trump’s election could benefit his business ventures
Donald Trump’s policies stand to raise questions if he maintains his loose boundary between personal and national interests.
Wrong number leads to warm welcome at dinner
An Arizona woman shares her feast with a teen she didn’t mean to invite.
Iran train crash kills 43, injures 100
A moving passenger train struck another parked at a station about 150 miles east of Tehran.
French authorities say terror attack plotted by four friends was thwarted
The plan for an ‘imminent’ and ‘large -scale attack’ also involved a fifth suspect, Paris’ prosecutor says.
Norway offers new vision for prisons
Some U.S. prison chiefs like its system of making incarceration less grim, more like ‘normal life.’
Nation & World Dispatches
TEHRAN, Iran Northern Iran train crash kills at least 43, injures 100 A train collision in northern Iran killed at least 43 people and injured 100 on Friday, Iran’s state media reported. The official IRNA news agency quoted Mostafa Mortazavi, a spokesman for the country’s Red Crescent, as saying the latest casualty figures had risen […]
Beachcomber finds mysterious bracelet with dead soldier’s name
The memorial bracelet did not match others given to an Oregon man’s battalion after his death.