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FBI confirms probe into fights at Texas school (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2009 02:17 PM PDT AP - The FBI says it is investigating allegations of civil rights violations at a Texas school for mentally disabled people where workers were allegedly videotaped watching fights between residents.

Economic crisis threatens small, rural schools (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:25 PM PDT AP - In this rustic corner of California wine country, parents are fighting to prevent the closure of a one-classroom school established before the Civil War.

Rise in false threats after German school shooting (Reuters) Posted: 13 Mar 2009 07:18 AM PDT Reuters - German police have received more than half a dozen threats of violence at schools since a teen-ager went on a deadly rampage in southwest Germany on Wednesday, officials said.

German police close school after chatroom warning (Reuters) Posted: 13 Mar 2009 03:54 AM PDT Reuters - Police cordoned off a school in southwestern Germany Friday after taking note of a warning in an Internet chatroom that a violent act was planned there, a spokeswoman said Friday.

High school journos take all-platform plunge (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2009 02:02 AM PDT AP - Josiah Jones is the editor-in-chief of an award-winning magazine, guiding a staff of 90 that also produces podcasts and a Web site.

Police: 6 charged over staged fights at group home (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2009 05:30 PM PDT AP - Police issued arrest warrants Thursday for six employees of a Corpus Christi state home accused of staging or failing to report after-hours fights between mentally disabled residents, and said more arrests are possible.

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