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• FBI joins probes of taped Maryland police beating (AP)
• Another day of protest at Hawaii gov's office (AP)
• Gunman disarmed at Pa. school after striking guard (AP)
• Mass. worker: Ala. prof 'pointed the gun at us' (AP)
• Church-state issue clouds Ind. schools' conversion (AP)
• Religion News in Brief (AP)
• Police suspect Pa. 3rd-grader had heroin at school (AP)

FBI joins probes of taped Maryland police beating (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:54 PM PDT AP - A second officer was suspended Wednesday after a video surfaced showing police in riot gearing beating a University of Maryland student during a rowdy celebration following a big basketball win.

Another day of protest at Hawaii gov's office (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:08 PM PDT AP - Parents angry about Hawaii's shortest-in-the-nation school year entered the seventh day of their sit-in at Gov. Linda Lingle's office Wednesday despite arrests of two protesters the night before and the issuance of several trespassing citations.

Gunman disarmed at Pa. school after striking guard (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 02:22 PM PDT AP - A man with a gun who entered a public school for performing arts students was arrested Wednesday afternoon after he fought with a security guard who confronted him and both men crashed through a large window near the school's entrance.

Mass. worker: Ala. prof 'pointed the gun at us' (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 02:02 PM PDT AP - Two men who told police they were threatened at gunpoint by Alabama professor Amy Bishop after she shot her teenage brother dead in 1986 testified Wednesday at a closed-door judicial inquest into the suburban Boston killing.

Church-state issue clouds Ind. schools' conversion (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 08:50 AM PDT AP - A plan to create what could be the first U.S. public charter schools run by a Roman Catholic archdiocese is meeting resistance from those who worry about whether religious messages and icons will really stay out of the classrooms and hallways.

Religion News in Brief (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 07:37 AM PDT AP - A constitutional proposal designed to protect religious school vouchers and other state-funded faith-based programs from legal attack is being revived by the Florida Legislature two years after the state Supreme Court took a similar measure off the ballot.

Police suspect Pa. 3rd-grader had heroin at school (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 05:11 AM PDT AP - Police near Pittsburgh have confiscated what they suspect were 50 to 60 small bags of heroin from a third-grade student who was passing them out at his school.

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