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  • Boise State football coach gets bonus, raise

    Boise State coach Chris Petersen has been rewarded after completing another impressive season.


  • Flavor Flav pitches new show at Iowa high school

    Now he's opened his first chicken restaurant in Iowa, rapper Flavor Flav would like to earn his high school diploma in the state and record his efforts for a new reality TV show.


  • American Scene

    A letter announcing the victory at Fort Ticonderoga that went missing from the state archives six decades ago has been recovered after being spotted as part of a planned auction.


  • Charlton Heston as Moses in "The Ten Commandments"

    EDITORIAL: No room for the Ten Commandments

    The Ten Commandments have no place in an Ohio courtroom, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week. The federal judges insisted a poster featuring the Decalogue constituted "an explicit endorsement of religion." Left-wing groups hope similar judicial sentiment prevails in the mountains of Southwestern Virginia, where a lawsuit is in the works to force schools to tear down displays that enjoy support from the local community.


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School buses.

    ENLOW: Educational freedom, not jail for Ohio parents

    Five digits. Five single numbers can make or break a child and any hope he has for the future.


  • Lockridge

    D.C. Council honors Lockridge; services scheduled

    Memorial and funeral services for D.C. Board of Education member William Lockridge, who died Jan. 12 at George Washington University Hospital after a stroke, are scheduled for Thursday at the Temple Praise in Southeast Washington.


  • William Lockridge (Courtesy of williamlockridge.com)

    SIMMONS: Lockridge an agitator who will be missed

    Unlike annoying activists who pimp causes for fame, political fortune or to rid themselves of spiritual guilt, William Lockridge long championed the need to develop human capital.


  • **FILE** D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (Associated Press)

    3 special elections loom in D.C.

    An unusual turn of events means D.C. voters will hit the polls for an unprecedented three special elections this spring, but the consequences run beyond who wins or loses in the three races.


  • Students stand around outside Central Falls High School at the end of the school day. Just 7 percent of the 840-student school's 11th-graders tested as proficient in math in 2009. (Associated Press)

    R.I. school still in turmoil after teachers fired, rehired

    The teachers at Central Falls High School struck a deal to get their jobs back last year after the entire staff had been fired in a radical, last-ditch attempt to raise student performance. However, if administrators thought the teachers would be grateful for a second chance, they were wrong.


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