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Dickinson teachers turn down $38K

The Dickinson Public School Board and an association representing teachers are at an impasse in contract negotiations for the next two school years. The Dickinson Press reports (http://bit.ly/10U6VbS) that the board offered $38,400 per year for new teachers, but the Dickinson Education Association declined the offer. The salary would have ...

This image made from video broadcast on Egyptian State Television shows members of the Egyptian security forces after their release by kidnappers, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation, the country's military spokesman said. (AP Photo/Egyptian State Television) EGYPT OUT

Egypt leader claims victory in captives' release

The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt's Islamist president after months of criticism that his government is mismanaging the country. Seated with top military brass and senior officials, an animated Mohammed Morsi lauded the release as a show of ...

SERGEANT ACCUSED OF SECRETLY FILMING FEMALE CADETS

c.2013 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — A sergeant first class on the staff of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has been accused of videotaping female cadets without their consent, sometimes when they were undressed in the bathroom or the shower, according to Army officials. The Army ...

Arizona Senate advances bills for religious groups

A little religion could soon go a long way in avoiding unpopular government mandates. The Arizona Senate passed a trio of bills Wednesday that seek to lower property taxes for religious institutions and make it easier for some people to sue over the First Amendment, much to the chagrin of ...

Jorge Barahona writes letter to judge

A Miami man charged with fatally beating his adoptive daughter says audio cassettes that could help his care are being withheld. But Jorge Barahona doesn't explain in a two-page letter to the judge exactly how the recordings he made of conversations between his adoptive foster daughter and son could help. ...

Texas man sentenced in NJ for smuggling ring role

Federal prosecutors in New Jersey say a Texas man is headed to prison for his role in a smuggling ring that brought hundreds of people to the United States. Sanderlei Alves DaCruz received a 51-month prison sentence Wednesday and will have to serve three years of supervised release once he's ...

Amid immigration reform, calls to change asylums

As Congress debates legalizing about 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, immigration advocates are pushing plans they say will open the asylum process for thousands of more people who flee persecution in their home countries. The Senate version of the immigration bill, which passed out of the Judiciary ...

US: District didn't properly probe assault claims

A school district failed to properly investigate allegations by two students that they were sexually assaulted at their Grand Rapids-area high school, the U.S. Department of Education said. The department's Office of Civil Rights found that Forest Hills Public Schools' procedures for responding to sex discrimination weren't effective and didn't ...

In this picture taken on Saturday, May 11, 2013, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, and his close ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei wave to journalists as they arrive at the election headquarters of the interior ministry for registering Masheaei's candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, in Tehran, Iran.  By now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is well accustomed to enduring blows from Iran's ruling clerics as his reputation fell from favored son to political outcast. But their intended parting shot _ barring his chief aide from the presidential race _ may be just the opening act in Ahmadinejad's reinvention as a self-styled opposition force. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran's Ahmadinejad looks to outsider options

By now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is well-accustomed to enduring blows from Iran's ruling clerics as his reputation fell from favored son to political outcast. But their intended parting shot — barring his chief aid from the presidential race — may be just the opening act in Ahmadinejad's reinvention as a ...

First class of Kauffman Scholars college graduates

The middle of Cristina Ortiz's sophomore year, it hit her. Despair? Or maybe fear? Certainly a crisis of confidence. I can't be an engineer. "I reached a point where I stopped believing in myself," she said. Many other students like her in the first class of Kauffman Scholars — students ...

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