Teachers may get to keep some planning days - Honolulu Advertiser
The teachers union and Gov. Linda Lingle's administration appeared to be moving closer to a compromise, with the governor's senior policy adviser Linda Smith — after a day of negotiations — suggesting teachers may not be asked to give up all of

Dave Sittler: Football fanatics become scrooges - Tulsa World
TIS THE PART of the college football season when some fans go from jolly to jackasses. Brian Kelly and Turner Gill are the two most recent victims of how quickly a few knuckleheads can bring out the ugly side of a sport that has always had a few

State man pleads not guilty in friend's slaying - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wayne Rouillard, 62, pleaded not guilty to first-degree intentional homicide in Polk County Circuit Court Tuesday. A criminal complaint says Rouillard used a claw hammer, a knife and a wood-splitting maul to kill Stephen Dahlstrom, 61, on Nov. 28

Evangelist Oral Roberts leaves a complex legacy - Jefferson City News Tribune Online
Revered by millions who heard his message of God's healing power, ridiculed by others for tying his own mortality to a fundraising need, Oral Roberts was a towering figure in 20th century American Christianity. Roberts, who died Tuesday at 91, was

SU interviews Northern - Baton Rouge Advocate
Among the 118 programs in the Football Championship Subdivision, the Panthers ranked 10th nationally in scoring defense (16.6 points per game), 45th in rushing defense (133.8 yards per game) and 43rd in total defense (327.2 yards per game).

26,500 school cafeterias lack required inspections; Safety law - Chain Leader
The cafeteria worker from Trinity High School in Dickinson, N.D., had spent part of the weekend vomiting and racked with diarrhea. But on Monday, May 2, 2005, she apparently felt well enough to report to work, chopping lettuce that would be served

Provost says he's retiring from Owens - Toledo Blade
Christa Adams, who recently moved up her retirement date, and just after the college announced plans for an expanded investigation into who is responsible for the loss of national accreditation with plans for an objective review of the

Stillwater won't schedule Jenks, Booker T. Washington - Tulsa World
As Jenks and Booker T. Washington take steps to clean up their athletic departments, the programs' eligibility scandals have triggered one school to stop scheduling them. "As an athletic director, I try not to place personal judgment on other school

1984: Dunn woman conspires to murder ex-husband - Dunn County News
John F. Vancil, 1721 Second Ave. SE was pronounced dead at Red Cedar Medical Center after emergency personnel located him on the first floor his home which caught fire Monday morning… State Rep. Jeff Wood (I-Bloomer) was arrested in the early

Immigrant helps to heal other refugee families - Syracuse Post-Standard
Based on what he witnessed as a teen-ager, Mirza Tihic decided to go into medicine. Tihic comes from Bosnia. He lost 60 male relatives, he said, including his grandfather, in the Serbian "ethnic cleansing" of the 1990s. With his parents, he escaped