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Idaho Press Club awards for 2012 contest
Here are the results of the Idaho Press Club Awards for stories published in 2011. The awards were announced during a banquet in Boise on Saturday evening. Daily Newspaper GENERAL EXCELLENCE - DAILY PRINT 1st Idaho Statesman 2ndIdaho Press-Tribune 3rdIdaho State Journal GENERAL NEWS STORY - DAILY PRINT 1stBetsy Z. ...
DC transportation exhibit offers history lesson
The schoolchildren piled into the rail car in downtown Washington and looked up and down as the lights flickered and the floor rumbled. "We're here!" one of the young passengers shouted, all of them heading for the door like seasoned commuters. The rail car never actually moved, nor did the ...
Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals. But no one responsible for the lab at the base can ...
ISU opens interactive exhibit of the Bayh family
A new interactive display that documents the lives and accomplishments of Indiana's politically prominent Bayh family has opened at Indiana State University, the western Indiana school linked to several generations of the clan. About 250 Indiana Democrats and others attended Friday's dedication of the Bayh Family Legacy Wall, which toasts ...
New president for Ohio's largest community college
A new president has been selected for Ohio's largest community college, and he's already familiar with the territory. Trustees of Cuyahoga (keye-uh-HOH'-guh) Community College in Cleveland selected Alex Johnson to succeed Jerry Sue Thornton as president. Johnson led the college's Metropolitan campus from 1993 to 2003. He is currently president ...
First lady to high school grads: Live your dreams
First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit. Mrs. Obama spoke for 22 minutes to the graduates of Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School on ...
Purdue makes fast progress on tuition freeze
A Purdue University official says the school has made fast progress finding $40 million in savings or new revenue to support a two-year tuition freeze announced in March. Purdue treasurer Al Diaz tells the Journal & Courier (http://on.jconline.com/10CgHSV ) that the school is nearly three-quarters of the way to reaching ...
KSU faculty call for halt on administrator raises
Faculty members at Kansas State University are seeking an improvement in their salaries, which they say are the lowest among their peer institutions and the Big 12 Conference. Faculty Senate President Julia Keen plans to present a resolution to administrators Tuesday that asks for a moratorium on pay increases for ...
Students match wits at Ohio college
Science whiz kids from around the country and as far away as Japan are going brain-to-brain this weekend at Wright State University near Dayton. There are 120 middle school and high school teams competing in the 29th annual Science Olympiad National Tournament. They advanced from state-level competitions in hands-on and ...
Imprisoned Ohio Amish complain about schooling
Some of the Amish sentenced in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio are upset with federal prison education requirements. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has required some to study for high school equivalency certificates, one of their defense attorneys said. The Amish claim that violates their First Amendment rights. ...
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