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A prestigious all-girls boarding school in Massachusetts, where students pay up to $79,000 a year for tuition and room and board, is facing a sweeping sexual-abuse scandal after a newly released independent investigation found decades of misconduct by multiple employees and years of institutional failures that allowed alleged predators to remain in the classroom.The investigation centers on former Miss Hall’s School history teacher Matthew Rutledge, who taught at the elite […]

Alex Murdaugh’s defense team is "cautiously optimistic" that the disgraced former South Carolina attorney could win a new trial when the state Supreme Court hears arguments in February, his lawyer Dick Harpootlian said.Harpootlian, who represents Murdaugh alongside attorney Jim Griffin, said the court will consider two consolidated appeals when it hears oral arguments Feb. 11, one challenging a legal ruling made during the 2023 murder trial and another on Court […]

A massive power outage plunged large swaths of San Francisco into darkness Saturday, knocking out electricity to about 130,000 homes and businesses and leaving self-driving cars stalled in city streets.Pacific Gas and Electric Co. did not immediately say what caused blackouts to roughly one-third of the utility company’s customers in the city. Fire officials posted on X at about 3:15 p.m. that at least some of the blackouts were caused […]