AKRON--An Ohio mother is in jail after being convicted of tampering with records to enroll her children in a better school district.
Kelley Williams-Bolar, 40, of Akron, illegally registered her two daughters at her father's address in suburban Co ...
Posted Wednesday, January 26th 2011 at 2:40PM
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From Newsweek.com
January 24, 2011
The sugar-coated bullets of the “free market” are killing our children. The act to kill is instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on the New York and Chicago mercantile exchanges, wh ...
Posted Tuesday, January 25th 2011 at 3:18PM
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NEW ORLEANS-- A child-support hearing officer has deleted his Facebook page after posting that a father of 23 children has "too much time on his hands."
A representative for William Dunckelman, the hearing officer, told WDSU Channel 6 News that he ...
Posted Tuesday, January 25th 2011 at 3:14PM
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BATON ROUGE--Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, on Tuesday ordered a study of the feasibility of merging two neighboring New Orleans universities that have both struggled to fill classrooms and graduate students. A combined institution might ...
Posted Tuesday, January 25th 2011 at 3:06PM
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A BIRMINGHAM primary school teacher has been allowed to continue in his profession, despite sending a string of “racist” emails to former colleagues.
Ilyas Uddin sent “offensive, bullying, racist and demeaning” messages after accessing the email a ...
Posted Monday, January 24th 2011 at 3:43PM
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WASHINGTON--When Leon Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley in 1901, he was subdued and held by an African American dishwasher named James Benjamin Parker, who acted faster and more decisively than the Secret Service. McKinley died eight d ...
Posted Monday, January 24th 2011 at 2:35PM
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LOS ANGELES -- Thousands of students were kept in classrooms without food, water or access to restrooms longer than necessary, the Los Angeles school district's police chief acknowledged Thursday, as officials coped with complaints from parents frust ...
Posted Sunday, January 23rd 2011 at 2:28PM
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CNN.com--This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosed case of AIDS. In June 1981, a rare pneumonia diagnosed in five Los Angeles gay men was reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These were the first documen ...
Posted Saturday, January 22nd 2011 at 5:33PM
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