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Kan. teacher arrested after threats toward school

A teacher at a suburban Wichita high school was arrested after the district reported he had made criminal threats against the school. The 39-year-old teacher at Maize High School reportedly made the comments during a soccer game Tuesday night. The school's principal, Chris Botts, said in an email sent to ...

  • Updated: 9:38 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Substitute teacher admits making threatening call

A substitute teacher accused of making a threatening telephone call to a school board member during a teachers' strike has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. Christopher Culp of Round Lake will receive 18 months of court supervision and must perform 25 hours of public service as ...

  • Updated: 8:54 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

OPPOSITION FIGURES ARE DETAINED IN MALAYSIA

c.2013 New York Times News Service BANGKOK — The Malaysian government began a crackdown on political opponents Thursday, arresting three government critics, including a prominent member of Parliament, and charging a student activist with sedition. The arrests come two and a half weeks after elections that showed the governing party, ...

  • Updated: 12:21 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Lisbon man gets 4 years for identity fraud

A Lisbon man who used his own child's Social Security number in a scheme to illegally receive welfare benefits has been sentenced to four years in prison. Federal prosecutors say 34-year-old Mark Judd was also ordered Wednesday to pay more than $29,000 in restitution. Judd pleaded guilty in January to ...

  • Updated: 7:23 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

RI education board to mull arming university cops

Rhode Island education officials are set to decide whether to allow the University of Rhode Island to arm its campus police officers. The state's Board of Education is set to vote on the matter Thursday evening at a meeting at the URI campus. The proposal would leave it to URI ...

  • Updated: 4:07 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Jury in Jodi Arias trial resumes deliberations

Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial resume deliberations Thursday after they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time boyfriend, prompting the judge to instruct them to keep trying. The panel reported its impasse Wednesday ...

  • Updated: 4:02 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Marvin Dixon, the grandfather of 8-year-old tornado victim Kyle Davis, glances down at a photo of his grandson while sitting for a portrait in the lobby of a funeral home where his grandson awaits burial, in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Nicknamed "The Wall," Davis loved soccer and going to the Monster Truck exhibitions at the fairgrounds with his grandfather. Kyle was killed Monday, May 20, 2013, when a huge tornado roared through Moore, Okla., flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying his elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Youngest Okla. tornado victims remembered by kin

Nine-year-old Sydney Angle was "everywhere at once" when she was out on the softball field. Kyle Davis, 8, was nicknamed "The Wall" because of his size and presence on the soccer field. JaNae Hornsby, also 9, was the life of the party. The three were among seven small children pulled ...

  • Updated: 3:34 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
FILE - In this May 12, 2013, file photo AC Milan players Mario Balotelli, left, Kevin Prince Boateng (10) stand on the pitch during a stoppage in play in a Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and AS Roma, at Milan's San Siro Stadium. The game was stopped for almost two minutes because of racial abuse by Roma fans towards Balotelli and Boateng. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Ocean not all that separates US, European fans

Imagine Derek Jeter leading the New York Yankees off the field because opposing fans were yelling racial slurs and throwing bananas at his team. Or a game between the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls halted because of unrelenting race-baiting from the crowd. It's almost unfathomable to a U.S. sports fan, ...

  • Updated: 3:08 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Bullying forum planned at Conn. Capitol

Students, researchers, educators and government leaders are gathering at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford to discuss ways of addressing cyberbullying and bullying in schools. The Connecticut Commission on Children scheduled a forum for Thursday. Commission Director Elaine Zimmerman said she hopes the participants can obtain information about the steps ...

  • Updated: 3:02 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
FILE - In this Wednesday, April 28, 2010 file photo, relatives of the 26 suspected Hezbollah members, accused of plotting attacks on tourists and shipping in the Suez Canal and sending operatives and explosives to Gaza to help militant groups there, waves to prison vehicles carrying them outside Emergency State Security Court in New Cairo, Egypt. It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's 2011 revolution: Attacks on prisons that broke out more than 20,000 inmates, among them Hamas and Hezbollah militants and Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including the man who is now the country’s president, Mohammed Morsi. Now a court case is trying to uncover for the first time who was behind the attacks, raising political headaches for Morsi. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

2011 jail breaks become political issue in Egypt

It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power. The prison breaks added to the chaos during ...

  • Updated: 2:38 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
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