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Ohio woman, allegedly enslaved, spent time in jail
A mentally disabled mother authorities said was enslaved for two years along with her daughter spent time in jail this year after pleading guilty to beating the girl, but her attorney told a judge that her captors forced her to do it. Court records show that a child endangering complaint ...
2 dead in Peacham, Vt., in apparent murder suicide
Vermont State Police believe a New Hampshire man showed up at his ex-wife's home Wednesday morning, shot her husband and then himself in an apparent murder-suicide. Authorities said Jeannie Peabody called police to report that a white van pulled up on the lawn in front of her house in Peacham ...
HPV vaccine cut infection by half in teen girls
A vaccine against a cervical cancer virus cut infections in teen girls by half in the first study to measure the shot's impact since it came on the market. The results impressed health experts and a top government top health official called them striking. The research released Wednesday echoes studies ...
LA to give every student an iPad; $30M order
Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved the purchase of $30 million worth ...
Wis. Assembly passes state budget, heads to Senate
The Wisconsin Assembly passed the state budget Wednesday after Democrats decided against offering any amendments or prolonging debate, saying the $70 billion spending plan is so bad it can't be fixed. The budget would cut income taxes for all tax filers by $650 million over two years, expand statewide private ...
Group: Exclude Chad troops from UN force in Mali
A network of human rights groups on Wednesday criticized plans to include Chadian troops in a new U.N. peacekeeping force for Mali while Chad's military remains on a U.N. 'list of shame' for child recruitment. But U.N. officials made clear they had no intention of excluding a country whose soldiers ...
Conn. judge suspended 30 days for late decisions
A state judge was suspended without pay for 30 business days after admitting Wednesday that she was late in issuing child welfare rulings, some of which were more than nine months overdue and delayed placement and adoption proceedings. The suspension approved by the state Judicial Review Council was the second ...
House panel starts rewrite of No Child Left Behind
House Republicans on Wednesday finished their rewrite of GOP President George W. Bush's prized No Child Left Behind Act, sending to their colleagues a bill that would strip Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors of power and give more authority to the states. Members of the Republican-led House Education ...
Italy's first back minister receives death threats
Italy's first black Cabinet minister is facing Internet death threats before a visit to a region known for its anti-immigrant political base. But Cecile Kyenge says she's not afraid and challenged Italians to respond to such intimidation themselves to prove that Italy isn't racist. Kyenge, a Congolese-born doctor who has ...
Highlights of state budget passed by Assembly
The two-year state budget passed by the Republican-controlled Assembly on a 55-42 vote now heads to the state Senate for an expected vote on Thursday. If it passes there in identical form, it then heads to Gov. Scott Walker who can sign it, veto all of it, or veto any ...
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