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• Obama speech to students draws conservative ire (AP)
• Miss. school bus hero's mom not surprised at feat (AP)
• Professors in Mich. strike, school cancels classes (AP)
• Calif. university workers cast no-confidence vote (AP)

Obama speech to students draws conservative ire (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's back-to-school address next week was supposed to be a feel-good story for an administration battered over its health care agenda. Now Republican critics are calling it an effort to foist a political agenda on children, creating yet another confrontation with the White House.

Miss. school bus hero's mom not surprised at feat (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 04:20 PM PDT AP - The mother of a Mississippi high school football standout says she wasn't surprised to hear he wrestled a loaded gun from a 14-year-old girl on school bus.

Professors in Mich. strike, school cancels classes (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 02:11 PM PDT AP - Classes at a suburban Detroit university were canceled indefinitely on Thursday after professors upset over being asked to freeze their salaries a year after the university's president got a $100,000 pay raise went on strike.

Calif. university workers cast no-confidence vote (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 01:46 PM PDT AP - Union employees at the University of California gave overwhelming approval to a vote of no confidence for President Mark Yudof and called for his removal from office.

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