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Saturday May 3rd, 2025 morning edition

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Semi-truck crashes and the clean-up efforts that follow are rarely mundane.

We’ve seen wrecked trucks spill supercars, beer, and fireworks over the past couple of years, to name a few examples.

But crews in Texas were recently dispatched to clean up an even more unusual spill: millions of newly minted dimes.

The incident happened on Highway 287 in Alvord, a town located about an hour northwest of Dallas.

Local news outlet WFAA explains that the driver veered off the road at about 5:30 a.m. on April 30, overcorrected, and rolled.

The trailer flipped with the truck and spilled roughly $800,000 in dimes onto the road.

Some workers even ended up painstakingly picking up the dimes one at a time by hand and dumping them into one of the vacuum cleaners. »

Man sentenced to 53 years in prison in hate crime murder of 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy

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Man sentenced to 53 years in prison in hate crime murder of 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy.

An Illinois man has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for the 2023 fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy.

Their landlord, 73-year-old Joseph Czuba, was convicted in February on multiple murder charges, as well as attempted murder, aggravated battery and hate crime counts. »

N.J. school kids couldn’t use common summer ‘drug.’ This new plan fixes that.

Authored by nj.com

Since sunscreen is classified as an over-the-counter drug by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, New Jersey students can’t access it in school without a doctor’s note, officials say.

The policy would not require students to provide a doctor’s note to use sunscreen — which is considered a non-prescription medicine — or wear sun-protective clothing while outdoors at school, according to the bill.

The bill unanimously passed both houses of the state Legislature. »

US Forest Service evicts dozens of homeless people living in Oregon woods

Authored by theguardian.com

The US Forest Service has been working for years on plans to close part of the Deschutes national forest near Bend for forest restoration and wildfire mitigation.

Multiple US Forest Service officials and vehicles were stationed at the Deschutes national forest road closure on Thursday.

The government responded in court filings that US Forest Service staff in January began notifying homeless people living in the area of the upcoming closure. »

As President Xi Jinping traveled the world, police swept peaceful protesters off the streets

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All seven Xi visits included incidents, detailed below, in which police violated protesters’ rights to freedom of assembly and expression under international standards.

Nepal's President Bidhya Devi Bhandari, center-left, and China's President Xi Jinping, center-right, in Kathmandu on Oct. 13, 2019.

They were detained for just over 24 hours when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Serbia in May 2024. »