'Pimps and Hos' Math Test Earns Eighth Grade Teacher a Time Out and other top stories.

• 'Pimps and Hos' Math Test Earns Eighth Grade Teacher a Time Out

  

  This teacher gets an D- in racial sensitivity and an F in common sense. A teacher at an Alabama middle school has been placed on administrative leave after it was discovered she distributed a questionable math quiz last Friday to her students that referenced gang-related activities like drive-by shootings, cocaine and prostitution. According to parents of kids at Cranford Burns Middle School in Mobile, the students were shocked after reading questions like these: "Tyrone knocked up 4 gir..

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• Massachusetts Poised to Become 19th State Banning Trans Discrimination

  

  Asa Goodwillie, of Watertown, Mass., who is transgender, protests outside the state house in Boston, Wednesday, June 1, 2016. The Massachusetts House approved a transgender rights bill that Republican Gov. Baker has promised to sign. Charles Krupa / AP The Massachusetts House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to ban discrimination in public accommodations on the basis of gender identity, positioning the Bay State one step closer to joining 18 others in offering broad civil..

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• Kenneth Starr stepping down as Baylor chancellor

  

  Kenneth Starr is resigning as chancellor at Baylor in the wake of a huge shakeup at the university, but he will continue to teach in the law school, Starr told ESPN's Joe Schad on Wednesday.Editor's PicksStarr said in an interview with Outside the Lines that he was resigning effective immediately "as a matter of conscience."After an independent review of Baylor's response to sexual assault allegations, many of them against athletes, Starr had been removed as school president last week, but he wa..

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• Suspect Sought in Manhunt After 2 California Officers Shot

  

  Two Northern California police officers were shot after a traffic stop turned violent, prompting a manhunt that involved a house by house search that lasted well into the night. The officers were taken to nearby hospitals, where one remains in critical condition, and investigators were searching for at least one suspect, the Fremont Police Department said. The incident started when an officer with a year's service with the department stopped a white pickup truck Wednesday in Fremont, which ..

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