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• SF school swaps out name of racist Calif. governor (AP)
• Man gets life behind bars for grisly Newark school slayings (Reuters)
• Man gets over 200 years in Newark, NJ, murders (AP)
• 'Trump University' being investigated by NY AG (AP)
• Child brings bags of heroin to Pittsburgh school: police (Reuters)
• Bad Religion frontman to teach Evolution at Cornell (Reuters)

SF school swaps out name of racist Calif. governor (AP) Posted: 19 May 2011 05:50 PM PDT AP - For decades, a San Francisco preschool in an underserved, predominantly black neighborhood bore the name of Peter Burnett, California's first elected civilian governor.

Man gets life behind bars for grisly Newark school slayings (Reuters) Posted: 19 May 2011 03:07 PM PDT Reuters - A former gang member was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for the 2007 schoolyard murders of three college-bound students, one of whom he hacked at with a machete before shooting her.

Man gets over 200 years in Newark, NJ, murders (AP) Posted: 19 May 2011 02:57 PM PDT AP - The third of six defendants in a schoolyard triple murder was sentenced Thursday to more than 200 years in prison by a judge who cast aside his argument that he was coerced into the attack by an older half-brother who was the head of a violent street gang.

'Trump University' being investigated by NY AG (AP) Posted: 19 May 2011 02:56 PM PDT AP - A for-profit university operated by real estate mogul Donald Trump is being investigated by the New York Attorney General's office.

Child brings bags of heroin to Pittsburgh school: police (Reuters) Posted: 19 May 2011 10:43 AM PDT Reuters - A kindergarten student in western Pennsylvania brought bags of heroin to school and handed them out to friends, said authorities, who on Thursday asked parents to search their children's belongings for the drug.

Bad Religion frontman to teach Evolution at Cornell (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 07:09 PM PDT Reuters - Greg Graffin, frontman for punk rock stalwarts Bad Religion who obtained a PhD in zoology from Cornell University and recently published the science memoir "Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science and Bad Religion in a World Without God," will teach Evolution at the ivy league university this fall.

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