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Encore: Rural Washington 911 center closes amid lack of operators

7:28am August 25, 2022

by Austin Jenkins

There's a national shortage of 911 operators. In Washington state, the situation is so dire that it closed a rural dispatch center. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 22, 2022.)

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Mack Rutherford, 17, becomes the youngest person to fly around the world alone

6:47am August 25, 2022

Mack Rutherford got his pilot's license when he was 15. He was born into a family of aviators. His older sister has the record for youngest woman to fly around the world alone.

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A New Jersey city achieved 0 traffic deaths in 4 years with quick, high impact ideas

6:27am August 25, 2022

by Megan Lim

Traffic fatalities are on the rise across the United States. Yet in some parts of the country, efforts born from both tragedy and political will have seen the numbers move in a different direction.

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The FBI and local law enforcement are looking for a suspect who has robbed at least three banks in the Denver Metro Area. He has been nicknamed the "Empty Promises Bandit."

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The FBI is on the hunt for a Denver bank robber dubbed the 'Empty Promise Bandit'

5:30am August 25, 2022

by Dustin Jones

The suspect has robbed at least three banks in the Denver metropolitan area. And though a weapon hasn't been seen in the incidents, the robber has threatened to use one in at least one instance.

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A skateboarding destination in Arizona runs through the Hopi Reservation

5:07am August 25, 2022

A group of Hopi teenagers rallied together to bring a skate park to their village. When the pandemic began, the outdoor activity took on new life and the teens created what they called Skate264.

Largest U.S. auto market is moving away from the internal combustion engine

5:07am August 25, 2022

by Nathan Rott

The California Air Resource Board is expected to approve a plan Thursday to ban the sale of new gas cars by 2035. The state will have interim goals of 35% zero emission cars by 2026 and 68% by 2030.

Florida's public schools open this year under a slate of new education laws

5:07am August 25, 2022

by Kerry Sheridan

Teachers in Florida are navigating new rules on how they teach topics involving sexual orientation, race and more. Some say the rules are stifling while others pledge they won't change how they teach.

Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Kobe Bryant, leaves a federal courthouse in Los Angeles on Aug. 10.

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Kobe Bryant's widow was awarded $16 million in the trial over crash photos

10:16pm August 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

A jury found that Los Angeles County must pay Vanessa Bryant for emotional distress caused by deputies and firefighters sharing photos of the bodies of the NBA star and his daughter.

Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo stands during a news conference outside of the Robb Elementary school on May 26 in Uvalde, Texas.

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Uvalde school police chief fired 3 months after botched response to school shooting

9:43pm August 24, 2022

Families of the 21 victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary had been demanding Arredondo be fired since details became clear of the law enforcement failures that day.

Biden names new a Secret Service director as the agency faces controversy

8:02pm August 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

President Biden named Kim Cheatle, a veteran Secret Service official, to be the agency's next director as it faces controversy over missing text messages around the time of the Jan. 6 insurrection.