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While many students are looking forward to putting their new school supplies to use, others are choosing to skip out on lessons. In an effort to keep kids in the classroom for the whole day, a Connecticut school district is considering a $75 fine for students who skip school. New Britain’s new superintendent, Kelt Cooper […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A gay man and his longtime partner decide to become parents using a surrogate mother. Shortly after their son is born, the couple gets married. But there's a catch for this modern family: A will left by the man's wealthy father decrees that he must marry the mother for the child […]
When you are president or CEO of an organization are you responsible for everything that goes on or can you delegate responsibility for the firm’s operations and claim plausible deniability for running the place? That’s at the crux of whether presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney had nothing to do with investment company Bain […]
CENTENNIAL, Colorado (AP) — James Holmes was a promising neuroscience doctoral candidate, but by the end of the program's first year, he had fallen out of favor with professors and failed a key exam, prosecutors said. Details of his behavior before he became a suspect in a suburban Denver theater shooting were not released. But […]
JetBLue has announced they will be cutting down legroom in coach, in order to create more rows in premium seating. The change benefits JetBlue in two ways. It will expand the premium section of their airlines which are more expensive to be seated in. Also, it may get customers who usually travel in coach to […]
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney cracked a birther joke Friday and President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign wasn’t laughing. Campaigning in Michigan, Romney waxed poetic about being in the home state where he and wife Ann were born and met. “Ann was born in Henry Ford Hospital. I was born at Harper Hospital,” Romney told a […]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former North Texas high school teacher was sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with five 18-year-old students at her home. The Tarrant County jury decided on the sentence for Brittni Nicole Colleps, 28, of Arlington after nearly three hours of deliberation. It took jurors less than […]
A study finds that news coverage of both major presidential candidates has been more negative this year than in almost any other recent election. The report is by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. It finds that President Barack Obama is usually cast as failing to lift the nation's limping economy, while […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of new homes in the United States rose 3.6 percent in July to match a two-year high reached in May, the latest sign of a steady recovery in the housing market. The Commerce Department said Thursday that new-home sales reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 372,000. That's the same as […]
PLAINFIELD, N.J. (AP) — Police say a thief got away after two good Samaritans grabbed the wrong person on a northern New Jersey street. The Samaritans were driving down a street in Plainfield when they saw what appeared to be a man assaulting a woman early Monday. But it turns out the man was walking […]
A top Ohio basketball recruit collapsed in court after receiving a three-year prison sentence. Garfield Heights High School senior Tony Farmer was ordered to serve three years in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping, felonious assault, and other crimes against his ex-girlfriend last April. Farmer attacked her after she refused to reconcile their relationship. As […]
New reports show that 40 percent of food in the United States is never eaten. According to a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Americans waste $165 billion worth of food a year. The NRDC said that more than 20 pounds of food is wasted each month among 311 million Americans. This amounts to […]
