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Eugene schools face $16 million budget gap
The Eugene School District wants wage concessions from teachers because of a projected $16 million budget gap. Up to 20 teachers could lose their jobs because of the budget problems, and that number could nearly double if the teachers' union does not accept wage concessions, The Register-Guard newspaper reported (http://is.gd/y2hvDL ...
NY Assemblyman accused of sex harass resigns
The New York assemblyman accused of asking young female staffers to massage him, touch his cancerous tumors and join him in hotel rooms said Saturday he will resign rather than possibly be expelled from the Legislature amid sexual harassment allegations. The announcement by Democratic Assemblyman Vito Lopez, 72, a once ...
Herbert signs legislation to prevent teen suicide
Gov. Gary Herbert visited a high school in the Salt Lake City suburb of Magna rocked by a recent string of suicides to discuss the problem and sign legislation meant to prevent it. Herbert on Friday heard suggestions on how to deal with teen suicides from students at Cyprus High. ...
Chester mom finds son 64 years after his adoption
Under her pillow in the little house in Chester, Frances Lee Dove for decades kept the letters that had the secret words about her son. How he had grown up, was healthy, and had tiny little overalls and a cowboy suit when he was a toddler. All the adoption people ...
Chicago Teachers Union begins 3-day citywide march
Hundreds of teachers, parents and students took to Chicago's streets Saturday, the first of three days of marches to protest Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to close dozens of city school. The show of force was meant to add weight to a pair of lawsuits filed in recent days. Police-escorted processions ...
Murder charges dismissed in double slaying
Prosecutors have dropped murder charges against a migrant worker in the deaths of two unidentified people. The charges were brought against Mariano Arias last year after police found two sets of skeletal remains in Fleming County. Prosecutor J. Kelly Clarke told The Ledger Independent (http://bit.ly/113IXtJ) that the charges were dismissed ...
Women sad, angry over sale of nonprofit Ohio home
For more than 100 years, the Anna Louise Inn in downtown Cincinnati has been a safe, serene place that thousands of struggling women came to know as home. But after losing a two-year fight with a Fortune 500 company determined to buy their beautiful, 104-year-old property and turn it into ...
French president signs gay marriage into law
France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples and ending months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate. Hollande's office said he signed the bill Saturday morning, a day after the Constitutional Council struck ...
Criticism flares around new Pa. graduation tests
It seemed to hit the Capitol like a brick: a sudden groundswell of criticism over a move by Gov. Tom Corbett and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education to toughen academic achievement standards and tie them to graduation tests for the state's roughly 1.7 million public and charter school students. ...
Teens spearheaded Louisville desegregation effort
Raoul Cunningham was a gangly 17-year-old high school junior when Louisville police came for him at the lunch counter of the old Stewart's Department Store in February 1961. They handcuffed him, he says, and hauled him off to the old Children's Center juvenile facility on East Chestnut Street. Over the ...
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