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• NAACP chapter blasts a call for classes on MLK Day (AP)
• Keep Track of Student Loans in One Place (U.S. News & World Report)
• Giffords called real, hardworking, a fighter (AP)
• NY archdiocese to close 27 schools, saving $10M (AP)
• 2nd person convicted in Chicago beating death (AP)

NAACP chapter blasts a call for classes on MLK Day (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2011 01:50 PM PST AP - A North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is criticizing a decision to have students in the Charlotte area make up for a snow cancellation by attending school on Martin Luther King Day.

Keep Track of Student Loans in One Place (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 12 Jan 2011 10:29 AM PST U.S. News & World Report - Have a lot of student loans but not sure exactly how much you owe or who to pay? Join the club. Student loans are frustratingly complicated; it's not easy to keep track of how much you owe and to whom.

Giffords called real, hardworking, a fighter (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2011 08:25 PM PST AP - She loves motorcycles and yoga, and is as comfortable in a business suit walking the halls of Congress as she is in leather riding gear at the famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. She holds a master's degree from an Ivy League university, yet can mount a tire in a flash.

NY archdiocese to close 27 schools, saving $10M (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2011 08:20 PM PST AP - The Archdiocese of New York says 27 Catholic schools that received heavy subsidies due to declining enrollment will close at the end of the current academic year.

2nd person convicted in Chicago beating death (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2011 04:21 AM PST AP - Again and again defense attorneys and prosecutors played the same graphic video of 16-year-old Derrion Albert being beaten to death — grainy, shaky and just a few minutes long.

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