2010年4月14日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Education News


FBI joins probes of taped Maryland police beating (AP)

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:54 PM PDT

An image made from a March 3, 2010 videotape taken by a student from a dorm room window and provided by Roberts and Wood Law Firm shows One Prince Georges County police allegedly beating University of Maryland student John McKenna. The FBI is reviewing the video, FBI spokesman Rich Wolf says. A Prince George's County police officer has been suspended and Police Chief Roberto Hylton said Tuesday, April 13, 2010 that he expects more to follow when authorities identify the other officers involved. The crowd in the street was celebrating Maryland's 79-72 victory over Duke on March 3. (AP Photo/Roberts and Wood Law Firm)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

FILE - A Feb. 13, 2010 file police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. More witnesses are expected to testify at an inquest into Bishop's fatal shooting of her teenage brother in Massachusetts more than 20 years ago. Assistant District Attorney Robert Nelson says eight witnesses are expected at the closed-door inquest Wednesday, April 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Department, File)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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