News for May 1, 2025

Police say Marianne Akers was not intoxicated when her car crashed into the YNOT Outdoors camp building in Chatham, Illinois, killing four girls.

Marianne Akers tested negative for alcohol and controlled substances after the crash into an Illinois after-school program that killed four children, as investigators continue to look for the cause.

House Republicans want to overhaul federal student loan repayment, which could change monthly bills for new borrowers under a plan tied to President Donald Trump’s tax agenda.

Westhill High School’s lacrosse coach said staff had no prior knowledge of an alleged hazing incident, as the school and district responded by ending the season and cooperating with police.

Ronan, a sea lion studied by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz and New College of Florida, can keep a beat as well as or better than people.

Harvard University professors are taking temporary pay cuts to help the school as it fights the Trump administration over frozen federal funding and a threat to its tax status.

Martin Scorsese is making a documentary with Pope Francis that follows the pope’s work with young people and film through the Scholas Occurrentes education group.