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• Tentative deal for teachers union, Pa. archdiocese (AP)
• Even when town mergers make sense, voters fight (AP)
• UMass gives scholarships to bullied boy's siblings (AP)

Tentative deal for teachers union, Pa. archdiocese (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2011 04:00 PM PDT AP - Negotiators for Philadelphia's lay Catholic school teachers and the archdiocese said Sunday that they have reached a tentative agreement for a new contract that could end the two-week-long teachers' strike over issues of job security and working conditions.

Even when town mergers make sense, voters fight (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2011 12:22 PM PDT AP - Fewer than 30,000 people call Princeton home, but two of them are mayors. There are also two police chiefs, two treasurers, two administrators and two public works superintendents in this community best known for its Ivy League university.

UMass gives scholarships to bullied boy's siblings (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2011 10:16 AM PDT AP - The University of Massachusetts says it is offering full scholarships to the siblings of a Springfield boy who hanged himself in 2009 after incessant bullying at school.

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