The bronze sculpture of three women lifting a bowl of fruit aloft, gifted to Kansas City in 2013 by its sister city, Morelia, Mexico, has been “gathering dust” for 12 years. It’s time for it to go up.

Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank, a development far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said would “permanently bury the idea of a Palestinian state.

Israel’s far-right finance minister says a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is going ahead, a project that Palestinians and rights groups worry will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state by effectively cutting the West Bank into two separate parts.

Four masked people used hammers to smash the locked front glass door of Menashe & Sons Jewelers, police said. No employees were hurt.

The slaying of Deonte Alexander led to Cleveland police shooting an armed suspect Wednesday on East 73rd Street and Clark Avenue.

Avid walkers say routes in the South West help them "disconnect from a busy world" - and the region is full of hidden gems off the well-trodden path. Walking charity the Ramblers recently announced a stretch of the 630-mile (1,015km) South West Coast Path between Bude to Westward Ho! had been named as Britain's favourite path for 2025.

Peter Wang, killed in the 2018 Parkland shooting at the age of 15, was an honorary member of the West Point class of 2025.

Due to personal and family health concerns, Powell has announced her retirement for later this year. Officially, she will take family and medical leave through the fall, and retire in December. In the meantime, Libby Huettl, formerly the principal at Somerset Elementary School in Mendota Heights, will serve as interim principal at Garlough.