May 8—The York School Department agreed to pay a former special education teacher $237,500 to settle a lawsuit she filed against the district last summer alleging she was discriminated against for being gay. The school district will pay $170,000 in backpay and damages to Michele Figueira and $67,500 to her attorneys, to be doled out by the district's insurance, according to a copy of the ...
Alex Babich, 47, achieved the feat of nursing Ukraine's national flower until it reached a neck-craning 35 feet and 9 inches into the sky, stretching as high as a telephone pole....