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• Charges filed against boy after LA school shooting (AP)
• NY school bus, plow collide; 22 kids, driver hurt (AP)
• Pa. school district sued over truancy fines (AP)
• LSAT Will Still Be Weighted Heavily in Law School Rankings (U.S. News & World Report)
• Correction: School shooting story (AP)
• Security amped at 9 LA schools after officer shot (AP)
• School bus and snow plow collide in upstate New York (Reuters)
• SEC requires reporting of data on loans (AP)
• SEC requires reporting on loans tied to securities (AP)
• Conn. woman cleared of giving weapons to son (AP)

Charges filed against boy after LA school shooting (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 04:03 PM PST AP - A teenager was charged Thursday with smuggling a gun onto a Southern California high school campus, where it discharged and wounded two classmates.

NY school bus, plow collide; 22 kids, driver hurt (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 03:15 PM PST AP - A school bus carrying fifth- and sixth-graders slammed into the back of a town snowplow on a central New York road, injuring 22 children and the bus driver, authorities said Thursday.

Pa. school district sued over truancy fines (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 01:33 PM PST AP - A federal lawsuit accuses a Pennsylvania school district of imposing excessive and illegal fines on truant children or their families, including one parent ordered to pay $27,000 and a 17-year-old student fined more than $12,000.

LSAT Will Still Be Weighted Heavily in Law School Rankings (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 12:17 PM PST U.S. News & World Report - There are serious discussions underway in the legal education community about whether the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), which is now a mandatory requirement for admission to law school, will become a voluntary requirement. An American Bar Association (ABA) committee is considering proposing changes to the ABA's current law school accreditation standards that would allow law schools to make the LSAT optional.

Correction: School shooting story (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 12:03 PM PST AP - In a Jan. 19 story about an accidental shooting that wounded two students at a Los Angeles high school, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a detective who provided some information as A. Batris. His name is spelled Batres.

Security amped at 9 LA schools after officer shot (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 11:58 AM PST AP - Nine schools that were locked down for hours after a school police officer was shot near a campus reopened Thursday under heavy security, a district official said.

School bus and snow plow collide in upstate New York (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 11:30 AM PST Reuters - An elementary school bus filled with children in upstate New York collided with a snow plow on Thursday, injuring several of the children and the bus driver, authorities said.

SEC requires reporting of data on loans (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 10:35 AM PST AP - Federal regulators are requiring firms selling securities tied to mortgages, credit cards and student loans, which froze during the financial crisis, to publicly report information on the loans that back them.

SEC requires reporting on loans tied to securities (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 08:02 AM PST AP - Federal regulators are requiring firms selling securities tied to mortgages, credit cards and student loans to publicly report information on the loans that back them.

Conn. woman cleared of giving weapons to son (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 03:54 AM PST AP - Authorities in Connecticut have dropped charges against a woman who was accused of sending her 12-year-old son to school with a BB gun and a knife.

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