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NASA Administrator speaking at DSU commencement
NASA Administrator Charles Frank Bolden Jr. is speaking at Delaware State University's commencement. Bolden became NASA administrator in 2009 after a 34-year career with the Marine Corps and is the first African American to serve as the administrator of NASA. Bolden was a member of the astronaut corps for 14 ...
Report: Many Ind. school buses fail inspections
Many school buses across Indiana are on the road despite serious safety violations that could put thousands of students at risk, according to an investigation by an Indianapolis television station. WTHR-TV obtained inspection results (http://bit.ly/16AlFDX ) for every Indiana school bus and found that the number of buses ordered out ...
Fate of LA pot shops left to voters
Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime. Voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide how Los Angeles should handle its high with three competing measures ...
Henderson receives tenure at Maryville College
Maryville College professor Frances Henderson is making history at the East Tennessee school. The Daily Times (http://bit.ly/19rderi) reports Henderson is the first African-American woman to be awarded tenure at Maryville College. Henderson moved to the area six years ago to teach political science. She says she is "honored" by the ...
Analysis: Missouri GOP success in eye of beholder
Success. That desirable word can have different meanings to different people. Sometimes, success is in the effort. But ultimately, success is often judged by results. When the Missouri Legislature adjourned its annual session this past week, the Republican majority claimed it was a successful effort — even "historic" and "monumental" ...
More centers in DC area speak seniors' language
If Mohammad Rahro, 91, had gone to just any senior center in Maryland, chances are he would not have encountered someone who remembered the headmaster with four wives who rode to school each day on a beloved white donkey. Instead, on his first day at the Loving Care Adult Medical ...
Ala. video highlights dropout prevention efforts
At the end of a movie, it's rare to see an entire audience sticking around in the darkened theater to watch the credits. Stranger still — hearing the crowd cheer and applaud as the names of the cast and crew appear on the screen. But it happened at the premiere ...
Adopted Russian orphan triumphs over challenges
Sophie snaps her fingers and, with her classmates, bounces, twirls and kicks to the tune of West Side Story's "America" blaring through the dance studio sound system. The 10-year-old, adopted from Russia by U.S. parents nearly nine years ago, is a bright-eyed, carefree fourth-grader who wakes up with a song ...
Authorities: US student was killed by police
A New York college student being held in a headlock at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to a report of the home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday. Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head Friday ...
Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police
A Hofstra University student being held in a headlock at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to the home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday. Junior public relations major Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head early ...
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