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Kansas City, Mo., closing nearly half its schools - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
The Kansas City school board voted Wednesday night to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat.

Behind the scenes, crafting the U.S. no-fly list - Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Graphic shows process of determining who gets on the Federal No-Fly listIt starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home. It ends when a person is forbidden to board an airplane.


U.S. lays out set of common school standards - Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Teacher Lori Peck helps first grader Timia Harris at Grace L. Patterson Elementary school in Vallejo, Calif. on Feb. 12. The nation's governors and school chiefs will propose a blueprint for what children should learn, which aims to replace a hodgepodge of state benchmarks with common standards. New educational standards say 4th graders should know the difference between poetry and prose, 8th graders must be able to prove Pythagoras’ theorem.


Female WWII aviators honored with medal - Wed, 10 Mar 2010

June Bent of Westboro, Mass., holds a portrait of fellow pilot and friend Doris Duncan Muise, deceased, who also was also a pilot, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday.A long-overlooked group of women who flew aircraft during World War II are awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.


Officials: Ex-TSA worker tried to sabotage computers - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Federal prosecutors have charged a former Transportation Security Administration employee with attempting to sabotage terror watch list computers and by attempting to introduce a virus into the computer system, according to news sources.

Study: Law officers struggle to adjust after war - Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Wayne Williamson stands at the pedestrian bridge Tuesday in Austin, Texas, where a March 2007 shooting cost him his job. Many law enforcement officers called up to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan are finding it difficult to readjust to their jobs once home.


Once-revered lawmaker freezes to death alone - Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Juanita Goggins is seen in a 1974 file photo in Rock Hill, S.C. Goggins was the first black woman elected to the the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, and was hailed as a trailblazer at the time. Three decades later, Goggins died alone and freezing in the home she rented for 16 years, just four miles from the gleaming Statehouse dome. When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer.  Three decades later, she froze to death at age 75.


Boy, 7, who rescued family thanks 911 dispatcher - Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Police in Norwalk, Calif., are calling a 7-year-old boy a hero after he hid in the bathroom to call 911 as gunmen invaded his family’s home. TODAY’s Ann Curry has more. (Today Show)“They have guns. Can you come really fast? And bring soldiers, too.” That was the urgent message a Southern California boy gave a 911 operator he dialed from a bathroom when three armed robbers threatened his parents. A sheriff credited the boy with averting a tragedy.


Toyota luring buyers back with incentives - Wed, 10 Mar 2010

March 10: Toyota is mishandling its recall crisis by not A high-ranking Toyota executive says the auto company's North American sales spiked around 50 percent the first eight days of March as incentives helped lure customers.


'Extreme' 2010 hurricane season possible - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Five hurricanes, two or three of them major, are expected to strike the U.S. coast this season, private forecaster AccuWeather.com said Wednesday.

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