Explore More Parents are demanding a Virginia superintendent and school board resign following allegations they lied and tried to cover up the sexual assault of a female student earlier this year.
Furious parents called for the resignations as they protested at the Loudoun County school board meeting on Tuesday night — a day after a 15-year-old boy was found guilty of sexually assaulting the girl in a female bathroom at Stone Bridge High School. Read More...
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a mainstay of the Mall and a 7 million-gallon mirror to two of Washington’s most iconic monuments, is to be drained. But only temporarily.
About 80 ducklings have died there recently, likely because of a parasite in snails that dwell in the historic eight-acre body of water, the National Park Service said.
Chemical treatment isn’t enough, the Park Service said. So in a move with obvious swamp-draining resonance, the water goes out, starting Sunday. Read More...
Explore More He kept them on their heels. A serial world record-breaker from Spain ran a 100-meter sprint while wearing high heels.
Christian Roberto López Rodríguez donned 2.76-inch stilettos and ran the distance in 12.82 seconds, earning his 57th Guinness World Record, which the reference book posted on its Instagram page Friday.
His time was actually only 3.24 seconds slower than Jamaican runner and eight-time Olympic gold-medal winner Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint world record. Read More...
