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German teen detained in suspected school attack plot

May 12, 2022 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — A 16-year-old student was detained in Germany for allegedly plotting an attack on a local secondary school in the western city of Essen after police seized weapons and bomb-making materials from his apartment, authorities said Thursday.

1st German Catholic diocese allows women to perform baptisms

March 14, 2022 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Essen has become the first in Germany to allow women to perform baptisms, citing a lack of priests.

The diocese said in a statement Monday that Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck tasked 18 lay ministers —17 of them women — with conferring the sacrament of admission into the Church at a ceremony over the weekend.

3 injured in German apartment building fire; 100 evacuated

February 21, 2022 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — A huge fire broke out in an apartment building in the western German city of Essen early Monday, and three people were taken to a hospital after inhaling smoke, authorities said.

The fire service said that about 100 people were evacuated from the building, roughly the number of people who lived there, news agency dpa reported.

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How do you teach kids about texting? Bring in the teenagers

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABERJune 11, 2019 GMT

ESSEN, Germany (AP) — How do you teach tech-savvy kids to safely navigate the digital world? In Germany, you bring in the teenagers...

Developer downsizes plans for project on Madison’s Essen Haus block

Dean Mosiman | Wisconsin State JournalMay 1, 2019 GMT

After meetings with the neighborhood, a developer has revised plans for a project on a prominent Downtown block that would still demolish the Essen Haus restaurant and reuse the neighboring Come Back In tavern but now would preserve four rental houses.