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January 7, 2016

High school cancels season after 3 players charged with rape

Source: AP/ESPN

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- After three basketball players were charged with raping a teammate in an apparent hazing incident, a Tennessee high school has taken the unusual step of canceling the rest of the season, officials say.

The Ooltewah High School season has been called off "so that the criminal justice system can work the way we expect," Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Rick Smith said Wednesday.

Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association executive director Bernard Childress said this is the first time he could remember a school canceling a season for disciplinary reasons.

Three teens face aggravated rape and aggravated assault charges in connection with injuries to a teammate, who underwent surgery after being assaulted while attending a basketball tournament in Gatlinburg. Tennessee law defines aggravated rape as a rape in which the defendant either has a weapon, causes bodily injury or is aided or abetted by another.

Read more: http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/14520526/tennessee-high-school-cancels-basketball-season-rape-charges

January 7, 2016

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January 6, 2016

Warren praises Sanders' Wall St. speech

By NICK GASS

Though she has not yet endorsed a presidential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday offered some strong praise for Bernie Sanders.

"I'm glad @BernieSanders is out there fighting to hold big banks accountable, make our economy safer, & stop the GOP from rigging the system," she tweeted as part of a series supporting the presidential candidate's proposal, which he announced in a speech the previous day. She invoked her own proposed legislation as an example.


In his address, Sanders promised that, as president, he would seek to prosecute Wall Street executives and to tax speculators, as well as to implement what he called a "21st century Glass-Steagall Act" that would restore the boundaries between commercial and investment banking.

"Let’s be clear: This legislation, introduced by my colleague Sen. Elizabeth Warren, aims at the heart of the shadow banking system," Sanders said. "In my view, Sen. Warren, is right. Dodd-Frank should have broken up Citigroup and other 'too- big-to-fail' banks into pieces. And that’s exactly what we need to do. And that’s what I commit to do as president."


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-wall-street-217401

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