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Hansika Daggolu, an incoming junior at Mission San Jose High School, poses in San Francisco, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Middle and high school students in California will be able to sleep a little bit later when the new school year starts. Hansika, 15, said she is happy she will no longer have to rise before 7 a.m. herself to get to school by 8 a.m. The overall mood, she suspects, will lift as well. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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California late start law aims to make school less of a yawn
By CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press
Wed,06/29/22-11:07PM , 253 Reads
When Hansika Daggolu’s junior year of high school starts in the fall, she’ll be watching to see if a later first bell under a new California law means fewer classmates are heads-down on their desks for afternoon naps.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland. visits the Tops Friendly Market grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, the site of a May 14 mass shooting in which 10 Black people were killed. Garland was in Buffalo to announce federal hate crime charges against the 18-year-old shooter, Payton Gendron. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)

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Buffalo supermarket gunman in court on hate crime counts
By CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press
Thu,06/16/22-6:15AM , 86 Reads
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket made his first appearance in federal court on hate crime charges Thursday, and the judge urged prosecutors to quickly decide whether to pursue the death penalty given the “substantial” cost of those cases.
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Payton Gendron is led into the courtroom for a hearing at Erie County Court, in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, May 19, 2022. Gendron faces charges in the May 14 fatal shooting at a supermarket. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Buffalo supermarket gunman indicted on terror, hate charge
By CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press
Wed,06/01/22-12:31PM , 244 Reads
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man accused of killing 10 Black people in a racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday on a state domestic terrorism and hate crime charge that would carry a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
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This undated photo provided by Charon Reed shows Celestine Chaney, who was killed in Saturday's shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y. (Charon Reed via AP)

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Celestine Chaney, Buffalo supermarket victim, mourned
By CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press
Tue,05/24/22-9:00AM , 94 Reads
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Images of Celestine Chaney's shooting death in a hate-fueled attack inside a Buffalo supermarket made their way across the internet in the days that followed. At her funeral Tuesday, images from a treasured life filled the space, showing her smiling and holding her family close.
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