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• ECMC reports data theft; 3.3 million affected (Reuters)
• Fla. girl assaulted before found in Ga. landfill (AP)
• Student loans should be simpler under new law (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Albuquerque schools: 700 layoffs may be needed (AP)
• Teen gets 25 years in prison for killing classmate (AP)
• Jamie Oliver: Taking the revolution to president (AP)
• Deaf school students say Wis. priest abused them (AP)
• Wis. priest accused of molesting 200 deaf boys (AP)

ECMC reports data theft; 3.3 million affected (Reuters) Posted: 26 Mar 2010 04:05 PM PDT Reuters - ECMC, a nonprofit guarantor of federal student loans, said on Friday that a portable media device was stolen from its headquarters containing personal information of about 3.3 million people.

Fla. girl assaulted before found in Ga. landfill (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2010 03:01 PM PDT AP - An unemployed restaurant worker was charged Friday with sexually assaulting and killing 7-year-old Somer Thompson, who was discovered in a Georgia landfill two days after she vanished walking home from school in north Florida.

Student loans should be simpler under new law (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 26 Mar 2010 02:40 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Students and their families should find the student loan process simpler, and lower-income students should find more financial help, under the sweeping changes tucked into the health-care legislation that Congress passed this week.

Albuquerque schools: 700 layoffs may be needed (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2010 12:58 PM PDT AP - Albuquerque schools superintendent Winston Brooks says a $43 million budget shortfall is leading to severe cuts for next school year, including the possibility that 700 employees might be laid off.

Teen gets 25 years in prison for killing classmate (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2010 11:46 AM PDT AP - A Florida teen convicted of killing her high school classmate has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Jamie Oliver: Taking the revolution to president (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2010 03:44 AM PDT AP - If Jamie Oliver can't persuade the school lunch ladies of Huntington, W.Va., that fresh food is better than processed, maybe he'll have better luck with President Barack Obama.

Deaf school students say Wis. priest abused them (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2010 06:21 AM PDT AP - Steven Geier says that four times in the mid-1960s, the Rev. Lawrence Murphy coaxed the then-14-year-old student into a closet at St. John's School for the Deaf just outside Milwaukee and molested him, using God to justify his actions.

Wis. priest accused of molesting 200 deaf boys (AP) Posted: 25 Mar 2010 03:21 PM PDT AP - Arthur Budzinski says the first time the priest molested him, he was 12 years old, alone and away from home at a school for the deaf. He says he asked the Rev. Lawrence Murphy to hear his confession, and instead the priest took him into a closet under the stairs and sexually assaulted him.

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