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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 ...
Home programs are preschool in its earliest form
Caleb Cantres-Maldonado was all of 6 weeks old and just stirring from a nap when his mother propped him up and pointed him in the direction of a picture book. "Look what I have! See the book?" said Milenka St. Clair, a family support worker who visits Caleb's Manassas home ...
No. of Ky babies born addicted to drugs increases
Health officials, health care workers and drug control professionals are talking about the problems surrounding Kentucky babies who are born addicted to drugs. The Courier-Journal (http://cjky.it/17ZQlz1) reports that hospitalizations for addicted newborns rose from 29 in 2000 to 730 in 2011, a 2,400 percent increase. At a meeting last week ...
Refusing sex survey costing Georgia federal funds
Georgia stands to lose $1.8 million in health-related funding because state officials refuse to participate in a federal survey that asks students from seventh grade through high school questions about their sexual histories. The sex questions are part of a nationwide survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Principal recounts tornado hitting Oklahoma school
Teachers and students at Plaza Towers Elementary School hunkered down against the storm just as they had been taught in countless tornado drills, their principal said Friday, recounting how she walked the halls until the twister was on the doorstep, then announced on the intercom, "It's here." In a pause-filled ...
Third-grade FCAT math and reading scores static
Third-grade math and reading scores on Florida's standardized test remained static this school year, with fewer than two-thirds of students demonstrating grade-level proficiency, according to results released Friday by the state Department of Education. The scores show 57 percent of third-grade students performed at grade level in reading on the ...
Ex-Ga. PTA president sentenced in embezzlement
The former president of an elementary school PTA and educational foundation has been sentenced to jail and probation for stealing at least $80,000 from the groups. Fulton County District Attorney's spokeswoman Yvette Jones says 48-year-old Maryam Arjomand pleaded guilty Thursday to forgery and theft by taking. Jones says Arjomand, of ...
Child abuse investigator fired after boy's death
Florida child welfare officials fired an investigator who they said forged documents about substance-abuse treatment for a mother six months before her 11-month old baby died in a sweltering car. Catalina Bruno is accused of leaving her son Bryan Osceola, along with her purse and a can of beer, in ...
Fla. woman meets son she gave up for adoption
A central Florida woman has reunited with her son almost 36 years after giving him up for adoption. The happy reunion took place Thursday at Orlando International Airport, where Andre "Dre" Knight arrived from Los Angeles on a one-way ticket to meet his mother, Robin West. He said he'll go ...
Tornado took town's youngest as it swept through
One loved the spotlight. Another was nicknamed "The Wall" because of the force he brought to the soccer field. When a top-of-the-scale EF5 tornado ripped through Moore, Okla., it took with it 24 lives. Seven of them were children at Plaza Towers Elementary school; two were only babies. These are ...
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