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The state's largest district will close as many as 15 school before the start of class next year.

Phil Busey reveals how his family started living in faith and why Josh 1:9 became his mantra.

Union County plane crash

Mo Anderson shares the most the important lesson he learned from his father.

Clarence Mingo comments on blackface, Kaepernick's protest

Last friday 49 people were killed in shootings at two New Zealand mosques. In Oklahoma City, Muslims and other religious leaders responded to the attack that appeared to target the Islamic faith.

On Friday, March 15, 2019, a 28-year-old white supremacist allegedly shot and killed 50 Muslim worshipers in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Around the world, media reports chronicled the utter disbelief of New Zealanders who once thought that an act of terror and hatred like that could never touch their peaceful islands.

On Sunday, hundreds of Muslims, Christians, Jews, their faith leaders, and Rockford residents gathered at Muslim Community Center & Mosque in Rockford, Illinois, for a prayer vigil expressing support for all victims of terrorism and hate crimes.

READ THE FULL STORY: https://www.rrstar.com/news/20190317/hundreds-gather-in-prayer-at-rockford-mosque-in-wake-of-new-zealand-massacre

[Audio production by Scott P. Yates / Rockford Register Star Staff; Photo by Rachael Keating / Rockford Register Star Correspondent]

Marisa Cloutier-Bristol, of North Attleboro, was stunned to learn in 2017 that the Providence hospital's fertility clinic had kept a cryopreserved embryo of hers in storage since 2004, the year she underwent in vitro fertilization treatment. Now 45, she says: "It’s like grieving a child that I could’ve had that I don’t have. I feel completely and totally robbed." -- Madeleine List / Journal Staff Writer

Hundreds of children have been recovered safely since the Michigan AMBER Alert system began in 2001. But over the years, there have been numerous changes as to how and why these alerts are issued; and specifically, how those notifications are given to the public. This podcast about the history of Michigan's AMBER Alert system and some of the cases when it was used is based on news reports that were published in April 2017 in The Monroe News of Monroe, Michigan, and in March 2019 in The Sault News of Sault St. Marie, Michigan. Audio production by Paula Wethington of The Monroe News.

Savannah Police Sgt. Dana Purvis discusses arrests on the first day of the Savannah St. Patrick's Day Festival.

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