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Former teacher accused of sexually charged conversations with teen worked at 7 schools since 1999

Click here for updates on this story     CITRONELLE, Alabama (WALA) — Investigators in Citronelle and Washington County are revealing more about former teacher, William “Billy” Gardner, who was arrested on Friday, accused of having sexually charged conversations with a teenage girl over the course of several years. Citronelle Police and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office

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Why we ‘may not get to zero’ on Covid

President Joe Biden predicted a return to some normalcy “by the end of the summer” on Monday, but health experts are increasingly doubtful that the United States will reach herd immunity from Covid-19. America’s outlook is rosier now than it has been in months; daily coronavirus cases and deaths have fallen to one-fifth of what

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Asia’s multibillion dollar methamphetamine cartels are using creative chemistry to outfox police, experts say

The shipping container raised suspicions as soon as it arrived in remote northwestern Laos last July. Paperwork showed it was packed with 72 tons worth of blue vats filled with propionyl chloride, a relatively obscure chemical, and bound for an area in northern Myanmar notorious for the industrial-scale manufacturing of synthetic drugs. The cargo had

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Taiwan’s Tsai wins Canadian government-backed award that Ottawa reportedly tried to block

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has been awarded a prestigious leadership prize, in a move that could infuriate Beijing, and following reports of attempted interference by Ottawa. Tsai is the 2020 recipient of the John McCain Prize for Leadership in Public Service, the Halifax International Security Forum (HFX) announced late Monday. Though now independent, the Washington

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