BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD - A Baltimore County athletic director made headlines last month after he allegedly used artificial intelligence to make it sound like the school’s principal made racist and anti-Semitic comments. Even before that alleged misconduct, however, the 31-year-old AD made it a habit to lie on job applications before he was hired at multiple schools across the country, according to an investigation by The Baltimore Banner.
Dazhon Darien, Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, used two different names to fill out four job applications, which he filled with around 29 false claims, The Baltimore Banner reported. In Darien’s two resumes that he submitted to Baltimore County Schools, he made 16 false claims, but the man was hired after the school system said it conducted a background check and checked fingerprints and references. Click here to read more.
The battle over transgender athletes is getting really ugly in Oregon.
The state agency that governs school athletics is threatening young girls. If they complain about transgender athletes they will be banished from athletic competition.
News of the ban came just after Aayden Gallagher won the Oregon high school state championship. Gallagher is a young man pretending to be a girl.
The crowd booed as the young man booted a female runner off the medal platform. Click here to read more.
ST. LOUIS, MO - Two progressive 'Squad' members scrambled to delete posts about Memorial Day highlighting how little the lawmakers know about the longtime U.S. holiday.
Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Cori Bush of Missouri both posted tributes to soldiers on X Monday but quickly worked to delete their own posts after recognizing a fatal flaw in their tweets.
Both progressives 'Squad' members used the holiday to advocate for housing and healthcare reform, demanding that veterans get the treatment they deserve.
But unbeknownst to them - or at least their inept communications teams - Memorial Day celebrates the lives of fallen soldiers, not ones that are still living. Click here to read more.
LANSING, Mich - Just over two weeks after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration declared an “extraordinary animal health emergency,” her health department confirmed a farm worker has contracted the state’s first case of H5 avian flu in humans.
“The current health risk to the general public remains low,” Natasha Bagdasarian, Michigan’s chief medical executive, said in a Wednesday statement. “This virus is being closely monitored, and we have not seen signs of sustained human-to-human transmission at this point.”
Influenza A, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), H5N1, or bird flu, was first detected in Michigan’s dairy cattle on March 29, with more cattle testing positive in Montcalm, Ionia, Ottawa, Isabela, Barry, Gratiot Allegan, Ingham, and Clinton counties in the weeks since.
The disease was detected in backyard and commercial poultry in 2022, 2023, and 2024, most recently on May 9, in what has been a national outbreak at both dairy and poultry farms. Click here to read more.
SEBRING, Fla. (WFLA) — Sebring parents sprang into action when they suspected the bus driver transporting their teenagers on a graduation trip Saturday was impaired and wouldn’t stop the vehicle.
Keith Shifflett, 55, was charged with DUI, child abuse without great bodily harm and culpable negligence in connection with the incident, according to the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office.
The group started their drive to Daytona Lagoon, an amusement park in Daytona Beach when they realized something was wrong. The passengers, which included 30 students and six adult chaperones, said they suspected Shifflett was impaired and tried to get him to stop the bus.
“We drove through the first red light, and then drove through that red light,” mother Maggie Hucke said. “At that point, again we are telling him now to stop the bus. ‘Please stop the bus, pull over. Stop the bus’.” Click here to read more.
