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Shutdown impact: Defense workers return to work
A government shutdown is having far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others. Mail is being delivered. Social Security and Medicare benefits continue to flow. But vacationers are being turned away from national parks and Smithsonian museums, and that's having a ripple effect on those businesses and communities that ...
Girl sought in stabbing at Lincoln school
Authorities are trying to find a girl suspected of stabbing another girl at Lincoln Pius X High School. Lincoln police say the 16-year-old left the building after Monday morning's incident. Police say the stabbing occurred inside a bathroom at the parochial school. The victim is a 17-year-old who was taken ...
Supreme Court term begins amid government shutdown
The Supreme Court began its new term Monday by turning away hundreds of appeals, including Virginia's bid to revive its anti-sodomy law. The justices took the bench just past 10 o'clock on the first Monday in October, even as much of the rest of the government was coping with a ...
Backers, critics of high-stakes tests clash in NYC
Supporters and critics of high-stakes tests for students squared off Monday at the Education Nation conference in New York City, with some criticism reserved for New York's approach to preparing for the tests. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said standardized tests are eating up too much class time ...
'Hump Day' Craze Infects Conn. Middle School
So many kids at a Connecticut middle school are repeating a commercial catchphrase that teachers and adminstrators have had to take action to keep it from becoming a major distraction. (Oct. 7)
Corporal punishment use continues decline in NC
The use of corporal punishment in North Carolina's public schools continues to decline, with students in six districts hit 184 times in the most recent school year, according to a study released Monday by a child advocacy group. Students in Robeson County are hit the most, with 141 uses of ...
Students evacuated after SC school bus fire
No injuries have been reported after a school bus caught fire in Berkeley County. School district spokeswoman Susan Haire says a bus carrying Berkeley High School students caught fire just before 8 a.m. Monday. Students were evacuated, placed on another bus and taken to school. The driver also got off ...
Ohio schools' levy campaign collections questioned
Critics are questioning whether Ohio school districts are breaking the law by taking employees' voluntary donations to levy campaigns directly from their paychecks, saying it's an outrageous abuse of tax dollars. Among 49 public school systems in southwestern Ohio, nine collect the voluntary contributions and forward the money to private ...
Civilian Naval Academy faculty return to work
Classes are returning to normal at the U.S. Naval Academy as all civilian faculty return after being furloughed last week due to the partial federal government shutdown. Cmdr. John Schofield, an academy spokesman, said Monday that "everything is back up academically." Last week, the academy had to cancel about 20 ...
Indy officer works to shield kids from pedophiles
For years he saw the worst of the worst. Terry Hall would interview pedophiles who were serving jail sentences for child molesting and would investigate cases where a relative hurt a child. The semiretired Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department detective has made it his mission to educate children across the nation ...
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