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Five U.S. lawmakers are in Taiwan in a surprise one-day visit, says the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto embassy.

It’s not the first time the town has received national recognition for its growth.

Father alleges a teacher's assistant cut his 7-year-old daughter's hair without his permission.

The father of a 7-year-old Michigan girl whose hair was cut by a teacher without her parents’ permission has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the school district, a librarian and a teacher’s assistant.

The father of a 7-year-old Michigan girl whose hair was cut by a teacher without her parents’ permission has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the school district, a librarian and a teacher’s assistant.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court in Grand Rapids against Mount Pleasant Public Schools, MLive.com reported. Jimmy Hoffmeyer, who is Black and White, said that in March that his daughter arrived home from Ganiard Elementary with much of the hair on one side of her head cut. Jurnee said a classmate used scissors to cut her hair on a school bus, Hoffmeyer told The Associated Press in April.

The numbers have stayed within a few hundred of a grim milestone as the state battles the pandemic’s latest surge.

The infusions are more available and accessible to Texans than ever before, and new criteria for who can receive antibody treatment have led more doctors to prescribe it.

When Terry Scoggin left work at Titus Regional Medical Center in Mount Pleasant on Tuesday evening, there were five patients at the facility being treated for COVID. [San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

Prosecutors in Wisconsin want a judge to allow evidence at Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial that shows he had a previous violent encounter in Kenosha before he fatally shot two men and injured another during a police brutality protest last year.

In Cleveland, as in other cities, a move for "tree equity" is bringing more trees to low-income neighborhoods that often lack them. It also helps neighborhoods stay cooler as the planet heats up.

Mayor Jimmy Carroll said the resolution was drafted to express the barrier island’s opposition to the beach parking legislation “by all lawful means necessary.”

MOUNT PLEASANT — On Friday morning, Onelia Orellana felt conflicted.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News Texas Tribune, Mount Pleasant, Vaccination rate, COVID-19 Vaccine, San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

MOUNT PLEASANT — On Friday morning, Onelia Orellana felt conflicted.

Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, has reached a new deal with reduced tax breaks for its scaled back project in southeast Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers and the the company announced Monday.

President Donald Trump and Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou (R) tour a Foxconn facility at the Wisconsin Valley Science and Technology Park on June 28, 2018, in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Scott Walker talk before the groundbreaking of the 1,000-acre Foxconn Technology Group liquid-crystal display panel factory on June 28, 2018, in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. His administration has hired a consultant with industry expertise to monitor the project and is in "constant conversation" with the company, Evers said. Under the Foxconn deal, it was up to the village to acquire all the land. Kim and Jim Mahoney's house in the shadow of Foxconn's factory site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, is the last one standing in what used to be a neighborhood of about a dozen homes.