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Vandalism damage keeps students from class
Students at a Shelby County high school weren't able to attend classes as normal after vandals struck the building overnight. Officials say students at Oak Mountain High School spent Thursday studying in the cafeteria and elsewhere after someone coated classroom hallway floors with a slippery, soapy substance. Cleaning crews were ...
Feds propose overhaul for child care centers
Federal health officials proposed Thursday to overhaul 500,000 child care centers across the country, beefing up safety standards including background and fingerprint checks for employees and requiring states to better monitor the facilities. Roughly 1.6 million U.S. children attend child care centers on subsidies — paid in the form of ...
2nd-grader calls 911 after waking in empty school
A central Indiana school district is reviewing how a sleeping second-grader could have been left alone in a room for hours after school had let out. Joyce Larry said her 8-year-old son, Damarion, was left alone in a room Tuesday afternoon at Valley Grove Elementary School in Anderson after he ...
Julianne Moore: 'bad Mom' role is her antithesis
Julianne Moore sometimes identifies with the characters she plays but when it came to playing a bad mother in "What Maisie Knew," she couldn't relate. In the recently released film, Moore portrays a rock-star mom going through a bitter divorce who's having trouble connecting to her 6-year-old daughter, Maisie. The ...
W.Va. child abuse cases rising after brief decline
West Virginia child-welfare officials say the number of active abuse and neglect cases has been climbing in the past two years, but they're still handling fewer than they were five years ago. The state Department of Health and Human Resources says its workers took action in 1,569 cases in March ...
Cops: Pa. pupil caught cheating threatened harm
Police say a sixth-grader has been suspended from his suburban Pittsburgh Catholic school for the rest of the year after he allegedly threatened to shoot himself and his classmates after he was caught cheating on a test. But McCandless Township police tell WPXI-TV (http://bit.ly/17vUIlh) they're not happy that officials at ...
News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT
Plaintiffs in Pilot lawsuit hire ex-FBI head Freeh KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former FBI Director Louis Freeh's firm has been hired by trucking companies suing Pilot Flying J over allegations that the nation's largest diesel fuel retailer bilked customers out of rebates. Plaintiffs' attorney Mark Tate told WBIR-TV (http://on.wbir.com/YK8SKvhttp://on.wbir.com/YK8SKv ) ...
NC lawmakers nearing 'crossover' deadline
The North Carolina General Assembly worked Wednesday through dozens of bills — both commonplace and contentious legislation — before a self-imposed cutoff designed to whittle down the topics they can consider through 2014. The House worked until just after 11:30 p.m. as lawmakers worked toward what's called the crossover deadline. ...
Religion news in brief
Scottish cardinal to atone for sexual misconduct VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has ordered a disgraced Scottish cardinal to leave Scotland for several months to pray and atone for sexual misconduct, issuing a rare public sanction against a "prince of the church" and the first such punishment meted out ...
Lawyer: Is boy mature enough to aid murder defense
Attorneys for a 12-year-old California boy charged with killing his sister said Wednesday they wonder if he is mature enough to aid his defense. The remarks came after the boy attended a closed juvenile court proceeding and was told he had been charged with second-degree murder with a special allegation ...
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