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When San Benito, Texas, school leaders learned of an influx of children to a migrant shelter in their small town near the U.S.-Mexico border, they felt obliged to help. The superintendent reached out and agreed to send 19 bilingual teachers, mobile classrooms and hundreds of computers to make the learning environment resemble one of his schools. While a government contractor...

Hate Mondays? Maybe you should consider moving to Colorado. A school district in the Centennial State has cancelled school on Mondays in favor of a four-day school week. But Garfield-like attitudes is not why school district 27J, located outside Denver, made the decision. The district, which serves 18,000 students in Brighton, Commerce City, Henderson, Thornton and Aurora, believes that the...

Chicago’s next police superintendent will emerge from a list of 25 candidates. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern explains the steps in the process.

Fraternal Order of Police President Kevin Graham said that while he understands Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s decision to fire Police Supt. Eddie Johnson, he “did not expect this from the mayor.”

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot abruptly fired the city’s top cop Monday, terminating Supt. Eddie Johnson over allegations he “intentionally misled” both her and the public.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot abruptly fired the city’s top cop Monday, terminating Supt. Eddie Johnson over allegations he “intentionally misled” both her and the public. Lightfoot said Johnson “engaged in a series of actions intolerable for any leader in a position of trust,” citing evidence she had reviewed from an ongoing investigation by the inspector general into an incident in...

A planned northern Indiana park honoring two teenage girls who were slain in 2017 is getting donated light poles to illuminate its softball fields and playgrounds.

The family of Marlen Ochoa gathered to remember the young mother Saturday on what would have been her 20th birthday.

On what would have been her 20th birthday, Marlen Ochoa’s memory is being honored by family and friends with a balloon release and ceremony in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood.

Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson on Thursday announced plans to retire from his post as the city’s top cop after less than four years leading the department.

Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson may be retiring, but he’s not done working, he said moments after his major announcement.

More than two years after a Chicago Police Department SUV mysteriously crashed in a ditch on the South Side, city officials continue to fight the release of all records relating to the crash.