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Pete Buttigieg would like to turn the fight for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination into a contest about generational change. But there’s one looming problem: He has yet to win over his own.

Eye-opening and frustrating. That’s how Millard Billings, a juror in the Ghost Ship trial, described what it was like to decide the fate of Derick Almena and Max Harris.

A popular high school teacher has been fired in Contra Costa County, and dozens of parents and students turned out to protest the decision.

High school biology teacher Kelly Chavis knew smartphones were a distraction in her class. But not even her students realized the psychological toll of their devices until an in-class experiment that, of course, was then spreading on social media. For one class period, students used a whiteboard to tally, in real time, every Snapchat, Instagram, text, call or other notification...

A Northern California high school teacher allowed multiple “fight club” type brawls during school hours in his classroom of a dozen students, authorities said Tuesday.

A Florida travel insurance company has awarded a Georgia high school teacher $10,000 for reading the fine print in a policy she recently purchased.

A former Virginia high school teacher has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for hacking into private digital accounts of celebrities and others.

Federal prosecutors have recommended a sentence of nearly three years in prison for a former Virginia high school teacher convicted of hacking into private digital accounts of celebrities and others.

A Virginia high school teacher who refused to use a transgender student’s new pronouns has been fired.

A high school teacher in central California was arrested on suspicion of felony child endangerment after forcibly cutting the hair of one of her students while singing the national anthem, authorities said.

It’s Election Day in America, and voters will deliver their first verdict of President Donald Trump’s tumultuous tenure in a midterm that’s expected to draw historic numbers to the polls. Immigration, the economy, women’s issues, partisanship — all weighed heavily on voters’ minds as they cast ballots to decide control of Congress and put Trumpism to the test. Though not...

Check out some of the different stickers being handed out at polling places across the country on Election Day 2018.

In early September 2017, Hurricane Irma narrowly avoided Puerto Rico. In many respects this “false alarm” set the stage for what came later that month. Hurricane Maria made landfall in the early morning hours of Sept. 20. Its path ripped through Yabucoa, a region in the Southeast corner of the island, before cutting diagonally northwest. Joanna Medina, a high school...

Walnut Creek police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a former high school teacher on suspicion of committing lewd acts with a child and indecent exposure while working as a babysitter.

A woman is going public with accusations of sexual misconduct against a South Bay political leader who is seeking an even higher office.

Past sexual harassment allegations are coming back to haunt one of the frontrunners in a Santa Clara County supervisor race.

As President Donald Trump completes his first year in office, Americans are increasingly concerned about health care, and their faith that government can fix it has fallen. A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 48 percent named health care as a top problem for the government to focus on in the next year,...

A teacher who sparked protests at a New Jersey high school when she told a Spanish-speaking student that he should instead “speak American” has returned to the classroom after making a school-wide apology.

Nearly 100 students walked out of a New Jersey high school Monday morning to protest a teacher seen telling Spanish-speaking students to “speak American” during class, despite the principal’s warning that they would be disciplined.