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Entire staff to be replaced at LA school where 2 teachers were arrested

By doris | Published: February 7, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com Updated at 12:54 a.m. ET: The Los Angeles Unified School District is replacing the entire staff of Miramonte Elementary following the arrest of two teachers on lewd conduct charges last week, Superintendent John Deasy told parents at a meeting Monday night, the Los Angeles Times reported. Positions will be filled by [...]

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South Carolina authorities search for missing toddler

By doris | Published: January 27, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in South Carolina searched intently Thursday for a missing toddler who was last seen nearly two months ago, and whose pregnant mother has been charged with cruelty toward a child. Columbia police Chief Randy Scott told Vinnie Politan, of CNN’s sister network HLN, that law enforcement launched their [...]

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Students to see healthier school lunches under new USDA rules

By doris | Published: January 26, 2012

Full Story at usnews.msnbc.msn.com Millions of schoolchildren in the United States will see more fruit and vegetables and less fat on their lunch plates under new U.S. Department of Agriculture standards unveiled Wednesday aimed at improving child nutrition and reducing childhood obesity. “Improving the quality of the school meals is a critical step in building [...]

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Threat to electrify dog cage with girl inside just ‘horseplay’

By doris | Published: January 22, 2012

Full Story at USNews.nsmbc.msn.com A man accused of punishing his 12-year-old daughter by binding her hands and feet with duct tape and sticking her in a dog cage, then threatening to electrify the crate, was just engaging in “some horseplay” that “got out of control,” his lawyer says. Here’s what happened, according to a report [...]

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Gutsy wrangler, huge horse save boy from charging grizzly

By doris | Published: January 14, 2012

Full Story at spodesman.com Grizzlies are high profile this year. A lingering winter and late berry crop kept bears in proximity to humans longer than normal, perhaps contributing to a stream of headlines about grizzlies killing people and people killing grizzlies. Meanwhile, a young lady on a big horse charged out of the pack of [...]

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Mom forces teen to wear sign: ‘I lie, I steal, I sell drugs, I don’t follow the law’

By doris | Published: January 12, 2012

Full Story at thegrio.com FORT WAYNE, INDIANA – A frustrated mom has given her wayward teenage son the ultimate punishment: public humiliation. The 14-year-old was forced to stand on a busy street for two hours with a massive sign hanging around his neck, which read, “I lie, I steal, I sell drugs, I don’t follow [...]

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Alaska teen nearly recovered from spinal injury

By doris | Published: January 9, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com KODIAK, Alaska — As the holiday season comes to a close, Aaron Cooper has many things to be thankful for, most importantly his life. Four years ago in Fairbanks, Alaska, Cooper, a 2007 Kodiak High School graduate, was involved in a life-threatening snowmachine accident. The veteran rider was practicing freestyle tricks [...]

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NY teen killed by bus had suicide note, police say; family alleges bullying

By doris | Published: January 3, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com A 15-year-old who a witness says jumped in front of a Staten Island bus was carrying a suicide note when she was struck, distraught because she was the target of bullying at her school, according to a relative. Amanda Diane Cummings, a sophomore at Staten Island’s New Dorp High School, was [...]

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American girl, just 12, builds 27 homes in Haiti

By doris | Published: December 26, 2011

Full Story at TheDailyNightlymsnbc.msn.com LEOGANE, Haiti – If there really is something called “helper’s high” – that feel-good sensation that comes from extending a helping hand to others – Rachel Wheeler is soaring. The 12-year-old Florida resident has done more to aid others than many grown-ups do in a lifetime. Three years ago, when she [...]

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‘Santa’ full of anticipation heading into busy Christmas Eve activities

By doris | Published: December 23, 2011

Full Story at canada.com The anticipation of Christmas Eve is almost as great for Santa as it is for the children he delivers presents to. With the night looming, he is just finishing up squeezing in a few more kids at Woodgrove Centre to make sure every good child in Nanaimo gets what he or [...]

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Mail call: Sending love to troops abroad

By doris | Published: December 11, 2011

Full Story at CBSNews.com For military personnel far from home for the holidays . . . few sounds are more welcome than the words MAIL CALL. And dedicated volunteers here on the home front are working hard to make sure that none our troops anywhere in the world is disappointed. Our Cover Story is reported [...]

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Mindy McCready’s son found in Arkansas

By doris | Published: December 3, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Country music singer Mindy McCready was hiding in the closet with her son when authorities took the 5-year-old boy into custody in Arkansas, officials said early Saturday. Authorities found Zander McCready and his mother in a home in Heber Springs, Arkansas, according to David Rahbany, the chief deputy U.S. [...]

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Report: 1 in 5 U.S. children at risk of hunger

By doris | Published: November 23, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Students gathered as the chef sliced tomatoes with a plastic knife in a Brooklyn public school cafeteria. Their eyes followed as she held up a slender green cylinder before the crowd of parents and kids in plastic aprons and hairnets. “What’s that?” kids shouted. “It’s a scallion. [...]

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10 S.C. schools locked down after shots fired

By doris | Published: October 29, 2011

Full Story at 10 schools locked down after shots fired – US news – Crime & courts – msnbc.com GREENVILLE, S.C. — A gunman fired on a South Carolina police officer checking on a suspicious license plate Friday, causing 10 schools in Greenville to go on lockdown. The schools reopened their doors after a couple [...]

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Boy Found Safe In Tree After Disappearing Again

By doris | Published: October 27, 2011

Full Story at WMUR.com HAMPSTEAD, N.H. — A 9-year-old boy who went missing from his home twice in one week is out of police headquarters but apparently isn’t going home. Devin Frenette was taken from the Hampstead Police Department in an unmarked cruiser about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday but was not taken to his home. Police [...]

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Florida eases penalties for teen sexting

By doris | Published: October 2, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Before Saturday, a Florida teenager who sent or received nude photos or video could have been charged with a felony and forced to register as a sex offender. But a new law, recognizing the proliferation of cell phones and computers, eases the penalties for “sexting” infractions. A first offense [...]

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US official: Blast in Michigan was from car bomb

By doris | Published: September 21, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MONROE, Mich. — A blast that turned a vehicle along a Michigan street into a blackened shell and seriously injured an attorney and his two sons was the result of a car bomb, police said Wednesday. Emergency responders rushed to the site of the Tuesday evening explosion near a highway underpass [...]

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Child abuse increased as economy crashed, study shows

By doris | Published: September 19, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com As the U.S. economy began to tank, the number of abused kids landing in the hospital with severe brain injuries spiked, a new study shows. Anecdotes linking child abuse to the recession have surfaced before, but there had been no hard data to back the connection until now. “It’s definitely disturbing,” [...]

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The school that banned mirrors to teach girls a lesson

By doris | Published: September 16, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com In a controversial effort to curb teen vanity, a school in England prohibits makeup and removes mirrors from the girls’ bathrooms Talk about plain dealing. The 14- to 16-year-old girls at Shelley College in West Yorkshire, England have been banned from wearing makeup, and are checked daily for offending eyeliner and [...]

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Report: Missing Calif. autistic boy found safe

By doris | Published: September 13, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. — A missing autistic boy was found Tuesday afternoon after he ran away from school and into the San Bernardino National Forest, NBC Los Angeles reported. Dozens of searchers had been scouring the mountains for Joshua Robb after he fled into the woods near his school Monday morning, [...]

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