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MIAMI (AP) — When LeBron James learned he was Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year, the Miami Heat star was surprised. Not because he thought his achievements in 2012 weren’t worthy, but because he figured what happened in 2010 was still holding him back. Apparently, that’s no longer the case. The magazine announced its annual […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Five states announced Monday that they will add at least 300 hours of learning time to the calendar in some schools starting in 2013. Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and […]
(Photo Credit: AP) MIAMI (AP) — At Miami International Airport, two large signs warn drivers of large vehicles not to pass beneath the 8-foot-6 inch concrete overpass. Authorities say two passengers are dead and others have been critically injured after a too-tall charter bus smashed into the overpass, crumpling metal. One of the signs attached […]
A Texas mother, Sonja Cross, is upset with a local elementary school after learning her son was not allowed to use the bathroom because he had not earned allowance, The J.O. Davis Elementary teacher requires students to pay for trips to the toilet with “Boyd Bucks,” fake money used to reward the children for good […]
A Texas mother, Sonja Cross, is upset with a local elementary school after learning her son was not allowed to use the bathroom because he had not earned allowance, The J.O. Davis Elementary teacher requires students to pay for trips to the toilet with “Boyd Bucks,” fake money used to reward the children for good […]
(Photo Credit: AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers have shown about as much appetite for the $1 coin as kids do their spinach. They may not know what’s best for them either. Congressional auditors say doing away with dollar bills entirely and replacing them with dollar coins could save taxpayers some $4.4 billion over the […]
Patricia Spottedcrow, the mother who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for selling a $31 bag of marijuana has now been released. Spottedcrow said about her arrest, “My original sentence was 12 years behind a blunt with no priors. That was Heartbreaking.” Spottedcrow Will not be off of probation until she is 82-years-old. Her […]
(Photo: AP) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Against the backdrop of an unthinkable tragedy, the Kansas City Chiefs gave themselves a reason to be proud Sunday — and perhaps the impetus to let the healing begin. Brady Quinn threw for 201 yards and two touchdowns and Jamaal Charles ran for 127 yards in the Chiefs’ […]
(Photo: AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — One month before the deadline, negotiations between President Barack Obama and Republicans to save the economy from a plunge over the fiscal cliff are still in the throat-clearing stage. Serious bargaining is on hold while the two sides vie for political leverage. Deal or no deal, nothing is likely to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have to stop using “political math” and say how much they are willing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans and then specify the spending cuts they want, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said in an interview that aired Sunday. Just four weeks from the proverbial “fiscal cliff,” […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have to stop using “political math” and say how much they are willing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans and then specify the spending cuts they want, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said in an interview that aired Sunday. Just four weeks from the proverbial “fiscal cliff,” […]
Photo credit: (AP) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — People were coming and going Sunday from a house where a day before Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend before committing suicide in front of his coach and general manager. Police did not release any additional information Sunday about the murder-suicide. Belcher shot 22-year-old […]
