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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former head of an Alabama school district has pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge.

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:

The Utah estate of the late author Stephen Covey is available. His book on business, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” is a perennial bestseller.

Vice President Kamala Harris is blazing many trails, including in her choice of office furniture. Here's why her new desk is making headlines.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has ordered a study on overhauling the Supreme Court, creating a bipartisan commission Friday that will spend the next six months examining the politically incendiary issues of expanding the court and instituting term limits for justices, among other issues.

'We end up with these weird mid-season games that don't seem as competitive and guys are out.'

In "Farmhouse Fixer," Jonathan Knight of New Kids on the Block teams up with designer Kristina Crestin to fix up an old farmhouse and horse stable.

DEAR ABBY: I'm a young wife. I married after three months of dating my military husband. He was previously in an on-again/off-again relationship that lasted about eight years, during which she had a baby with another man, etc. I believe my husband is still in love with her. After constantly asking him, he says he just wishes her well and he doesn't have any romantic feelings. I'm not sure what to do, and I just keep overthinking it. Any thoughts? -- HATES HUSBAND'S HISTORY

NEW YORK (AP) — The Wonder Wheel began turning and the Cyclone whipped into action as Coney Island's illustrious amusement parks reopened Friday after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered New York City's iconic summer playground all last year.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — More than a dozen current and former inmates have sued Multnomah County over its handling of COVID-19.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration has blocked former Gov. Scott Walker's plan to require some childless adults to work to maintain Medicaid benefits.

MANTEO, N.C. (AP) — A man’s body has been found on a beach at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, authorities saididay.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities have recovered a Confederate monument that had been stolen in Alabama and was the subject of a ransom note threatening to convert it into a toilet, New Orleans police confirmed Friday.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations urged the international community to take “concrete action” against the military in Myanmar on Friday including an arms embargo and sanctions against its holding companies and those who profit from them, saying this is the only way to change the military’s crackdown on civilians following its Feb. 1 coup.

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Federal, tribal and state officials in New Mexico have signed an agreement clarifying the regulatory roles and responsibilities, including drinking water regulations, for a proposed project on the Navajo Nation.

WA Spokane WA Zone Forecast for Friday, April 9, 2021

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950 AM PDT Fri Apr 9 2021

.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.

Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Читать дальше...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A truck driver from Mississippi has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor motor vehicle homicide in the traffic death last year of a motorcyclist in southwest Omaha.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — After a false start and an unconventional test run, South Africa on Friday announced the launch of its mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 with a goal of inoculating more than 40 million people by February next year.

NY New York NY Zone Forecast for Friday, April 9, 2021

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.THIS AFTERNOON...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of

showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Читать дальше...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Presidents of Israeli universities released a joint letter Friday criticizing the government's decision to withhold the country's most prestigious prize from a scholar over his political views, saying it “severely harms free speech and free thought.”

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court sided with Democrats on Friday and ruled that the state elections commission should not remove from the rolls voters flagged as possibly having moved, something conservatives have wanted done for nearly two years.

WOODBURN, Ore. (AP) — A lawyer representing the Woodburn School District Superintendent, who has been placed on leave, has filed a notice saying he intends to sue the school district.

It's the latest social media trend, but the Better Business Bureau says don't do it.

Last year's pandemic housing rush is now this year's end-of-lockdown feeding frenzy.

Photos shared by Caltrans on Twitter show massive boulders in the middle of the road.