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US teenager accused of planning to bomb school
A U.S. teenager who intended to blow up his school will be charged with attempted aggravated murder after six bombs were found in his bedroom, a prosecutor said late Saturday. Grant Acord, 17, planned to attack his school in Oregon in a plot "forged and inspired" by a 1999 mass ...
Ore. teen accused of planning to attack school
An Oregon teenager intended to blow up his school in a plot "forged and inspired by the model of the Columbine shootings" and he will be charged with attempted aggravated murder, a prosecutor said late Saturday. Grant Acord, 17, will be charged as an adult and also faces six counts ...
Correction: France-Cannes Notebook story
In a May 24 Cannes Notebook item about jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Swavorski earrings Milla Jovovich wore cost $321,000. They cost $321. A corrected version of the story is below: Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival At the Cannes ...
Highlights from around the Capitol
Starting the final weekend of a legislative session that may be the last under Gov. Rick Perry, the Texas Senate passed a roughly $100 billion state budget Saturday that mostly reverses historic spending cuts to public schools and squeezes most of the revenue spoils of a resurgent Texas economy. The ...
Wis. special ed teacher faces sex-related charges
A Milwaukee special education teacher faces charges for allegedly fondling himself in front of students who are cognitively delayed, according to a criminal complaint filed Saturday. The complaint charges Kevin France, 37, of Milwaukee with four counts of causing a child between the ages of 13 and 17 to view ...
Girl's suicide after alleged attack troubles town
One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate's home alongside other teenagers. She'd told her parents she was spending the night with a friend. The friend claimed she was sleeping at Audrie's. Instead, the girls were having a party. A classic teenage ...
Video: Guard appears to shove student down stairs
A cellphone video appears to show a security guard at a Chicago high school pushing a student against a wall and shoving her down a flight of stairs in what a lawyer for the girl's family says was an unwarranted assault. The shaky video was recorded by a fellow student ...
S. Ind. police chief backs discipline for officer
The Evansville police chief is recommending an officer accused of battery against a student while working off-duty at a school be either suspended or fired. The Evansville Courier & Press reports (http://bit.ly/1376TPS ) Chief Billy Bolin is recommending the Police Merit Commission either suspend the unidentified officer without pay for ...
Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period." In a televised address, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah ...
Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip
Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan. Kerry, attending the African ...
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