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Good Samaritans Prevent Suicide in Fall River

Matthew McDonald

Passersby intervened when an unidentified person tried to commit suicide by jumping off the Braga Bridge in southeastern Massachusetts on Friday evening, according to police radio reports cited by a local newspaper.

The person was spotted a little before 7 p.m. Friday, April 12 in the westbound lane about halfway across the bridge.

Principal Apologizes for Making Student Cover Up Trump T-Shirt
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Principal Apologizes for Making Student Cover Up Trump T-Shirt

Matthew McDonald

A New Hampshire high school principal has apologized for ordering a student to cover up a pro-Trump T-shirt earlier this week

Brian Ernest, the principal of Epping High School, issued the apology Friday, four days after telling 14-year-old freshman Ciretta MacKenzie that the Make America Great Again T-shirt she was wearing had to be covered because Donald Trump is a controversial president and he didn't want people to be offended, according to The Union Leader.

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