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Texas Students Coach Teachers on Fitness
The eighth graders at Staley Middle School in Frisco, Texas are undergoing a different sort of physical education. As the AP's John Mone reports, students are helping teachers get in shape. (May 23)
News briefs from around Kentucky at 1:58 a.m. EDT
Ky. needs more doctors ahead of Medicaid expansion FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The planned expansion of Kentucky's Medicaid program coupled with a push to help the uninsured obtain health coverage could exacerbate the state's shortage of physicians, according to a report released Wednesday. Deloitte Consulting, a technology firm that's helping ...
Senate approves new Rio Grande Valley university
A plan to merge two South Texas universities into one and create a new medical school cleared one of its last hurdles Wednesday night with a final vote of approval by the state Senate. The unanimous vote sends Gov. Rick Perry a project that has enjoyed broad support among higher ...
School Storm Protection Spotty in Tornado Zones
Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma did not have a safe room in which students and teachers could seek shelter from a tornado. The twister which struck on Monday leveled the school killing seven students. (May 22)
Highlights from around the Capitol
Texas schools could train teachers as armed marshals to exchange gunfire with potential attackers under a bill approved by state lawmakers and sent to Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday, while a key lawmaker said attempts to allow concealed handgun license holders to carry their weapons into college classrooms is likely ...
Illinois Senate approves sex education bill
Illinois public schools that teach sex education will have to include information about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases instead of a curriculum focused solely on abstinence, according to a plan that cleared the state Senate on Wednesday. The bill, which senators approved 37-21, was headed to Gov. Pat Quinn's desk. ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
With warnings about continued threats to US, Obama seeks to open secretive terror policies WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid lingering concerns about his national security policies, President Barack Obama is outlining measures to clarify the deadly use of drones against terror suspects, make good on a pledge to close the controversial ...
Puerto Rico's Culebra awaits new hospital, school
Puerto Rico's tiny island of Culebra has been forever dependent on the U.S. territory for food, jobs and health care, but the territory's governor is cutting some of those strings. Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said this week that the island will get its first hospital and large-scale recycling center, as ...
Boy achieves family dream with geography bee win
Passion for geography runs deep in Sathwik Karnik's family. When he was about 6, his mother began challenging Sathwik and his older brother, Karthik, to her own version of hide-and-seek — using an atlas. The boys would comb through the book, trying to be the first to find a city ...
School storm protection is spotty in tornado zones
With its single-story design and cinder-block walls, Plaza Towers Elementary School may have seemed sturdy when it was built a couple of generations ago. But a powerful tornado revealed the building's lack of modern safety standards, destroying the school and killing seven students. Unlike several other schools in the Oklahoma ...
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