Education
20 Wayne High students barred from grad ceremony
About 20 Wayne High School students are barred from the school's graduation ceremony because of a senior prank that damaged the building. Media outlets report that the Wayne County Board of Education suspended the students from school property at a special meeting Monday night. The graduation ceremony will be held ...
Carroll names Carson Cunningham men's hoops coach
Carroll College athletic director Bruce Parker announced Tuesday that former Purdue basketball player and DePaul instructor Carson Cunningham has been named the men's basketball coach for the Fighting Saints. Cunningham spent the past five years as head coach at Andrean High School in Merrilville, Indiana, where his teams won 43 ...
Judge to hear request to expand Eastside
The proposal to expand Hammond Eastside Middle School to eighth grade will be discussed in federal court May 29 in New Orleans. The Daily Star reports (http://bit.ly/16IOOxJ ) attorneys in the Tangipahoa Parish School Board's desegregation case also will ask U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle to recognize that the school ...
US Rep Cramer criticized for commencement comments
U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer is defending comments he made earlier this month linking legalized abortion with school shootings. Cramer told The Forum and The Bismarck Tribune that his speech was about the erosion of Christianity and morals in American culture — something he has talked about for years. During the ...
Va. teacher accused of student assaults in class
A substitute teacher in Orange County faces charges of assaulting several students in a sixth-grade math class. Police tell media outlets that 49-year-old Laurie Millard is charged with six counts each of assault and battery and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. None of the students was seriously injured. ...
Recent Missouri editorials
Southeast Missourian, May 19 Police cameras Improving technology has created endless fuel for the public-privacy debates of our time. We live in a surveillance society with the government and private sectors watching our movements. Whether it's Google or Facebook tracking our online habits for profitable reasons, or the government tracking ...
Ex-Mass. teacher's rape trial gets started
The trial of a former Leicester (LESS-tuhr) Middle School music teacher charged with raping a 12-year-old female student is getting under way. Opening statements in the trial of 44-year-old David Gilman of Brookfield are scheduled for Tuesday in Worcester Superior Court. The Telegram & Gazette (http://bit.ly/10hBGHM ) reports that Gilman ...
Newtown mom visits Utah hometown for ceremony
A woman who lost a child in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School is visiting her hometown in Utah this week for a private ceremony to honor her slain daughter. Alissa Parker is also planning to speak about a program in which she and other victims' parents are raising ...
Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?
Thomas Sohmers, 17, of Hudson, Mass., has been working at a research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since he was 13, developing projects ranging from augmented reality eyewear to laser communications systems. This spring, his mom, Penny Mills, let him drop out of 11th grade. She says she ...
Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills 51
A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. At least 51 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and ...
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