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Parents, union to fight Chicago school closings
CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools officials ended months of speculation when they released the list of 54 schools the city plans to close, but the pushback against Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his schools...
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Assocaited Press The 1972 class ring from the former Mackin Catholic High School in Washinton, D.C. was purchased in a jewelry store in Vietnam. Cherry, a former Air Force brigadier general from Bowling Green, has been trying for several years to find its owner.
School rings remain mysteries
LOUISVILLE — They could have been lost forever, long-forgotten mementoes from home perhaps worn on a finger or carried in a pocket for good luck. Somehow, the two 1970s-era high school rings fou...
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State unemployment rate remains 7.9 percent for the month of February
FRANKFORT — Kentucky’s jobless rate is holding steady at 7.9 percent even though about 150 fewer people overall had jobs in the state in February. The Kentucky Office of Employment and Training ...
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Schools serve more poor, homeless students
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The percent of Illinois students who are homeless or living in poverty has grown in recent years. In a release Wednesday, the Illinois State Board of Education says the spike...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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TVA checking sport fish this spring with survey
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority is conducting it annual sport fish survey. TVA began the count March 12 at Wilson Reservoir near Muscle Shoals, Ala. By May 9, the utility wi...
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Associated Press Olutosin Oduwole walks outside in 2011 during his trial on charges of attempting to make a terrorist threat at the Madison County Criminal Justice Center in Edwardsville, Ill., Oduwole, a former student at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, whom prosecutors accused of threatening a murderous rampage, was released from prison Monday.
Former SIU student released after note deemed not a threat
ST. LOUIS — A former Southern Illinois University student convicted in 2011 of attempting to threaten a murderous rampage has been released from prison, days after an appeals court overturned the a...
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Judge rejects challenge to prison pastoral rules
LOUISVILLE — A federal judge has rejected a challenge brought by a group of Kentucky death row inmates to rules governing how and when pastors visit them at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. U.S....
Mar 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Condemned inmates prompt revisions to lethal injection
FRANKFORT — Kentucky prosecutors argued Monday that executions in Kentucky should resume because the state changed the way it would carry out lethal injections based on the concerns raised by conde...
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Woman describes newborn twins’ death
GALLATIN, Tenn. — Jurors at Lindsey Lowe’s murder trial watched a police interrogation video Wednesday in which Lowe told a detective that she “maybe” smothered her newborn twins. But Lowe’s att...
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Commission: Farmer charged for 42 violations
FRANKFORT — The Executive Branch Ethics Commission on Monday charged former agriculture commissioner Richie Farmer with a record 42 ethics violations, saying the onetime college basketball star mis...
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