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ADELPHI, Md. (AP) — President Barack Obama says $750 million in new private-business commitments will help “close the technology gap” in America’s schools. Obama announced the new funding Tuesday at a Maryland middle school. The money will be used to connect more students to high-speed Internet. The White House hopes the pledges will help fulfill […]
LOWVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities have charged a northern New York woman and her boyfriend because the woman’s 2-year-old daughter used their cellphones to dial 911 a total of 15 times last month. Village of Lowville (LOW’-vihl) Police Officer Matthew Martin says the 23-year-old mother and her 33-year-old boyfriend told him they tried to keep […]
WASHINGTON — Despite increased security put in place after the massacre at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, there’s been no real reduction…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in Washington say a Circulator bus needed a tow after a sinkhole opened up along its route in southeast Washington. Police say the bus got stuck 8 a.m. Monday in the 2500 block of Good Hope Road SE and that all the passengers got safely off the bus without injuries. Police […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Mattress Mack is a big Super Bowl loser. Houston furniture store mogul Jim McIngvale is out some $7 million on the big game. He owns the Gallery Furniture store chain. Mattress Mack promised to refund large purchases made in the two weeks before the Super Bowl if Seattle won. Of course, Seattle […]
GARDENDALE, Ala. (AP) — The Super Bowl safety that shocked football fans across the country scored about $70,000 in refunds for customers of a Birmingham-area jeweler. Jeff Dennis Jewelers ran a promotion over the past two weeks that promised all of his customers a cash refund on their purchases if a safety was scored in […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela‘s estate, worth roughly $4.1 million, will be shared between his family, members of his staff, schools that he attended and the African National Congress, the movement that fought white rule and now governs South Africa, the will’s executors said Monday. Mandela’s third wife, Graca Machel, is the main beneficiary of […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A man who alleges he was shot in the face by former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in Florida was shot again, this time outside a Connecticut nightclub, where he then opened fire, police said Monday. He was arrested on charges including criminal gun possession. Alexander Bradley was shot […]
IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A man convicted in four murders two decades ago is at large after he escaped from a Michigan prison and abducted a woman who fled his grips when he stopped for gas in Indiana, authorities said Monday. Michael David Elliot, 40, was discovered missing about 9:30 p.m. Sunday from the Ionia […]
If you missed it, on Sunday before the big game, President Obama sat down with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. We guess you could call it a reprise of the time they got together in before the 2011 Super Bowl. It was also Obama’s sixth straight pre-Super Bowl interview. Who knows, maybe he’s started a tradition […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Pete Carroll stood in the center of the locker room and gathered his Seattle Seahawks around him. They were Super Bowl champions, and they had the Lombardi Trophy after routing the Denver Broncos 43-8 on Sunday night. After a rah-rah speech and Carroll shouting out some players’ names, the entire […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Dylan Farrow renewed molestation allegations against Woody Allen, claiming the movie director sexually assaulted her when she was 7 after he and actress Mia Farrow adopted her. In an open letter to The New York Times posted online Saturday, Dylan Farrow recalled several events from her childhood. In a letter to […]
