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• Four killed, 20 hurt in California bus crash
• New Jersey senior class prank charges downgraded
• Find Higher Ed Benefits That Support Service Members, Families
• Islamist group forces schools to close in Pakistan's southwest

Four killed, 20 hurt in California bus crash Posted: 21 May 2014 04:01 PM PDT A Los Angeles-bound passenger bus veered off a Southern California highway on Wednesday and flipped onto its side, killing four people on board and injuring 20 more, California Highway Patrol officials said. As the bus was traveling through the town of Blythe, it encountered pipes on the road that had scattered when a semi-tractor truck hit the center median only minutes earlier, California Highway Patrol spokesman Jason Girard said. The bus driver "saw some debris and veered to the right," Girard said. The crash comes a little more than a month after a fiery collision between a passenger bus and a semi-tractor trailer in Orland, California, killed 10 people, including five Los Angeles-area high school students.

New Jersey senior class prank charges downgraded Posted: 21 May 2014 03:48 PM PDT TEANECK, N.J. (AP) — Many of the dozens of high school students arrested after a senior class prank will have the charges against them downgraded, a prosecutor said.

Find Higher Ed Benefits That Support Service Members, Families Posted: 21 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT The Senate will hold a hearing this week examining access and support for service members and veterans in higher education. In fact, of the hundreds of higher education benefits available, there are probably just as many individual places that current service members and veterans will have to dig to try and find them. So, as the Memorial Day weekend approaches, the Student Loan Ranger would like to dedicate this week's blog to providing information and resources for some of the higher education benefits service members might be entitled to that can help either pay for college or repay student loans. Most people are familiar with the GI Bill, but did you know that it was the first federal financial aid program?

Islamist group forces schools to close in Pakistan's southwest Posted: 21 May 2014 05:47 AM PDT By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Thousands of women, children and activists marched in Pakistan's volatile province of Baluchistan on Wednesday in a protest against a campaign by an Islamist group to force schools to shut down across the region. Tanzeemul Islam-ul-Furqan (Organization of Islam for the Koran), a little-known group that has been setting schools on fire and distributing threatening leaflets against girls' and Western-style education in Baluchistan, a vast province bordering Iran and Afghanistan. "At least 35 private schools and 30 language centers have been shut down in the districts of Panjgur and Turbat for well over a week, but government schools are open," Mohammad Ayub, a local education official, told Reuters. "Apparently they have been allowed to function because their enrolment of female students is very small." It is rare for women to take part in public rallies in the traditional tribal society of Baluchistan, but on Wednesday, thousands of them marched alongside schoolchildren and political activists to appeal for better security at schools.

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