PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend's father in a second-floor apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia....
59 min ago By MARYCLAIRE DALE |
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NORWALK, Calif. (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy who called 911 from a locked bathroom while armed robbers threatened his parents hugged and high-fived on Wednesday the sheriff's dispatcher who took his call....
17 min ago By THOMAS WATKINS |
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SEATTLE (AP) -- Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tests, replacing a patchwork of state and local systems in an attempt to raise student achievement nationwide....
2 hr ago By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP |
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SEATTLE (AP) -- After a $62 million overhaul, the Coast Guard will have its third icebeaker back in service in 2013, filling a critical need as the fleet takes on new responsibilities, the commandant of the service said Wednesday....
35 min ago By GEORGE TIBBITS |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census announced a new campaign Thursday that aims to reach the hard-to-count demographic through its smart-phone-toting youngsters....
1 hr ago By JACOB ADELMAN |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- In his 28 years with the Burbank Police Department, Sgt. Robert Quesada had never heard of anything quite like it: A well-respected teacher at one of the city's public schools walks into police headquarters and confesses to having an affair with a 14-year-old boy....
46 min ago By JOHN ROGERS |
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Kansas City school board voted Wednesday night to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat....
27 min ago By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH |
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A northern Mississippi school district decided Wednesday not to host a high school prom after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo....
27 min ago By SHELIA BYRD |
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Gov. Bob McDonnell directed state agencies not to discriminate against gay people in employment practices Wednesday, essentially overriding the Virginia attorney general's advice to public colleges....
2 hrs ago By LARRY O'DELL |
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the White House....
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