11:00 p.m. An hour after the city-wide curfew began, the intersection is mostly clear except for police and the media which is exempt from the curfew. Other officers are moving into the neighborhood beyond the intersection where a CVS was looted to get stragglers to go home. Officials called for the 10 p.m. … Continue reading
BALTIMORE (AP) — A line of police behind riot shields hurled tear gas canisters and fired pepper balls at as many as 200 protesters Tuesday night to enforce a citywide curfew, imposed after the worst outbreak of rioting in Baltimore since 1968. Demonstrators threw bottles at police, and picked up the canisters and … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Time for another history lesson. Only about a quarter of eighth graders show solid performance or better in U.S. history, civics and geography on tests known as the Nation’s Report Card. The 2014 results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress are similar to those four years ago. Students did better … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Urging Americans to “do some soul-searching,” President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration Tuesday April 28, 2014 over recurring black deaths at the hands of police, rioters responding with senseless violence and a society that will only “feign concern” without addressing the root causes. “This is not new. It’s been going on … Continue reading
HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — James Madison University hopes to raise $12 million to begin work on a planned $88 million convocation center. Media outlets report that university officials unveiled plans for the center and appealed for donations on Monday. Athletic director Jeff Bourne says the university needs to secure $12 million in pledges before … Continue reading
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — When Angeline Jackson and a friend were ambushed at gunpoint and sexually assaulted on a wooded trail outside the Jamaican capital, police initially seemed less concerned about the attack than the fact she is a lesbian. “The first policewoman I spoke to told me I should leave this lifestyle … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has not removed TV celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz from his faculty position as a group of top doctors have demanded, citing his “egregious lack of integrity” for promoting what they call “quack treatments.” “Dr. Oz has repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine,” said a … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel has unanimously passed legislation updating the No Child Left Behind education law, setting up a likely vote by the full Senate this spring. The legislation would continue to require annual standardized tests to measure student performance, but would allow the states to determine how much weight to give … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Teen smoking hit a new low last year while the popularity of electronic cigarettes and water pipes boomed, a government report shows. The number of high school students who tried e-cigarettes tripled in one year — to more than 13 percent. Water pipes or hookahs were used by 9.4 … Continue reading
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Best known nationally for his struggle with unions, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is staking out conservative ground in broader ways as he prepares for a likely run for the Republican presidential nomination. These ways are stuffed into his recent budget proposal and some of them are going to be … Continue reading
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Angry relatives of passengers who drowned in a ferry sinking snubbed South Korea’s president on the disaster’s anniversary Thursday, even as she pledged to salvage the ship. Tears and grief mixed with raw fury as black-clad relatives and their supporters mourned the 304 victims of the ferry Sewol, … Continue reading
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Their musical performances pack college auditoriums, though they play no instruments. While universities have long nurtured the niche community of a cappella singers, the TV show “Glee” and hit movie “Pitch Perfect” helped create a new generation of fans that propelled the soulful sound into mainstream culture. Now, they’re unlikely rock … Continue reading
CHICAGO (AP) — Efforts are underway to raise about $2.5 million to create a center named for late film critic Roger Ebert in the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, officials announced Thursday. Ebert was a Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times who graduated from the University … Continue reading
McLEAN, Va. (AP) — A student expelled from George Mason University for violating its sexual misconduct policy is suing in federal court to clear his name, arguing that an encounter with a girlfriend was sadomasochistic role-playing, not sexual assault. In response, the university is demanding that the ex-student identify himself publicly if he wants … Continue reading
Kenya’s National Disaster Operations Center says all students are now accounted for at Garissa University College where 147 people were killed in an attack by Islamic extremists. The disaster center tweeted that all the surviving students have been located and are being evacuated from the college. Seventy-nine were injured in the attack and … Continue reading
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