Maine high court rejects school funding appeal The Boston Globe | PORTLAND, Maine—Maine's highest court has rejected an appeal by a Swans Island couple who wanted the town to pay for their children's education at a Christian school. | Jason and Priscilla Joyce argued that the subsidy to send their children ...
Digital Download: You're the creator in 'Spore' universe; try it for free USA Today Updated | Comment | Recommend | | | By Electronic Arts Create your creature: Players already have designed more than 1 million of the life forms, which are being collected for Sporepedia, an encyclopedia of different spec...
Traveling the country, Hamilton takes steps toward college, NBA USA Today Updated | Comment | Recommend | | | By Jim Halley, USA TODAY CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Jordan Hamilton has plenty of game. What he needs is a personal secretary. | Hamilton, a 6-7 rising senior guard from Dominguez High (Compt...
Vermont, NH, Maine student-athletes tops The Boston Globe | CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—University of Vermont student-athletes led the America East conference with their classroom performance for the just-ended school year. | The conference's Academic Cup went to Vermont, whose student-athletes earned a cumulati...
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Barrington's alcohol-use survey findings 'encouraging' The Providence Journal | BARRINGTON - A survey of alcohol consumption among adults and high school students in town has concluded that parents drink more than the state average, but that Barrington youth...
2 Portsmouth High School students face drug charges The Providence Journal | MIDDLETOWN - The police arrested two 17-year-old Portsmouth boys last Friday on marijuana-possession charges. | Lieutenants Patrick G. Sweeney and Robert S. Nutt were on an under...
Commissioner says progress in city schools inadequate The Providence Journal | PROVIDENCE - Although the Providence schools are starting to improve, far too many are still failing to make adequate yearly progress, according to Peter McWalters, the state com...
He was main man for the Mustangs Philadelphia Daily News Law came up big for the Cape-American II champs. | By Sam Carchidi | Inquirer Staff Writer At 6-foot-7, Mainland pitcher Charlie Law is an imposing sight for those who step into the batter's box. | "You see a lot of arms and legs coming at you," Main...
New Jesuit high school planned Houston Chronicle TOOLS | A new Jesuit college-preparatory high school geared to lower-income students is planned for east Houston within the next two years. | "The issue now is when will it be opened and exactly where on the east side of Houston it should be located,...
Pingree wants to be Maine's first Dem woman in Congress The Boston Globe | PORTLAND, Maine—Hillary Rodham Clinton put "18 million cracks" in the glass ceiling in her unsuccessful bid for president. Back in Maine, Chellie Pingree hopes to break through another glass ceiling with her congressional campaign. | Despite ...
S.C. lottery sales pull a surprise The Charlotte Observer Despite the economy, sales January through June rose 3% over the same period in 2007. | By Roddie Burris | The (Columbia) State | Economic bad times are everywhere in South Carolina, but you wouldn't know it by soaring lottery-ticket sales. January to June, the state-run games raked in 3percent more cash statewide than in the same period last year....
