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'Hoosiers' team reunites for IU commercial
The last time Angelo Pizzo and Fred Murphy saw each other was in 1985, and Murphy was leaving the "wrap party" for the just-completed filming of the movie "Hoosiers." Pizzo was the writer and producer of the film and Murphy was the director of photography. "I knew it was good," ...
SoCal school's ex-PTA head charged with theft
The former president of a local Southern California PTA has been charged with grand theft for allegedly stealing $20,000 raised from children's candy bar sales. The Riverside Press-Enterprise (http://bit.ly/10Y5pFJ ) says Patricia Gledhill pleaded not guilty earlier this month to two felony counts. Gledhill was PTA president last year for ...
Southern Indiana garden honors Thomas Jefferson
Jeffersonville CityPride, a local steel production company, and students from Spring Hill and Maple elementary schools have created a new garden at Warder Park that pays tribute to the city's namesake. The project, dubbed the "Thomas Jefferson garden," is near a 10-foot bronze statue of the nation's third president and ...
Obama: Sexual assault threatens trust in military
President Barack Obama issued a pointed call Friday for an end to sexual assaults in the military, appealing to new graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy to display honor and moral courage to contain what has become a growing epidemic. Obama spoke at the commissioning ceremony for 1,047 midshipmen, telling ...
Federal cuts affect poorest Kansas schools
Kansas school districts face the loss of about $7.2 million this coming school year in federal funding for its high-poverty schools, according to the state Department of Education. In a letter notifying school districts of the cuts Thursday, the department described the losses in Title I funding as "major." The ...
Caddo school board looking for budget solution
The Caddo Parish School Board will have to find another way to start correcting its $21 million budget shortfall. The Times reports (http://bit.ly/ZigiXF ) nearly three hours of debate ended with the board right where it began before Thursday's meeting, leaving the teachers in attendance exhausted but relieved. As part ...
C. Pa. official: Students safe after school threat
A central Pennsylvania school official says students are safe but classes are dismissing early as a precaution following a threat to an elementary school. Williamsburg School District Superintendent Linda Smith says the school has already been evacuated. The high school was also going to dismiss students early for the day, ...
LI police reopening probe into 1986 student death
Police on Long Island are reopening the investigation into the 1986 death of a teenage rabbinical student who was bludgeoned in his dormitory room. Nassau County police are holding a press conference on Tuesday to discuss the case. The body of Chaim Weiss was found in his bed at a ...
3 HUMANS + 1 COMPUTER
c.2013 Harvard Business School Publishing Corp. From Harvard Business Review Computers often beat people at predicting the future, as the political analyst Nate Silver convincingly demonstrated during the 2012 U.S. presidential election and shows in his book “The Signal and the Noise.” But studies have found that humans’ predictions are ...
Lansing mentor program transforms boys to men
David DeMyers grew up without a father in his life, a male role model to guide him as he was growing up. But the Waverly High School senior found guidance through a mentoring program that targets primarily black boys and teens. Through Turning Point of Lansing, DeMyers said he has ...
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