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Tanya Friedly brought her 13-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter home early from school Tuesday, using the guise of a doctor's appointment. But Warren police said what she really wanted to do was kill them and herself. She sedated them and herself, then set the house on fire, police said.
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As flames rip home, Warren teen becomes a hero (Detroit Free Press)
By MERCEDES MAYER The first home game in the Jim Christian-era at TCU didn’t get off with quite the bang the Horned Frogs had hoped. Really, it was more like a clank. The Frogs made a school record-low 10 field goals but still were surprisingly in it because of 38 free-throw attempts in a 62-50 loss to Nebraska on Wednesday night before 3,922 fans at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum. "Offensively it was ...
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TCU Frogs miss the mark in Christian’s home debut (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
(BRUSSELS ) - The EU launches Thursday its Europeana digital library, an online digest of Europe's cultural heritage that aims to draw together millions of books and other items.
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Massive EU online library looks to compete with Google (Eu Business)
It seems like a viable compromise between endless unstructured hours at home and the regimented mainstream
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Would a Steiner school be a better alternative to home schooling? (Guardian Unlimited)
(Mountain Home, AR) -- A teenager in Mountain Home, Arkansas is arrested for setting off fireworks on his school bus. The Baxter County sheriff says just before 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, the juvenile lit and threw the firecracker along U.S. Highway 62 East, near Oels Road.
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A 15-year-old boy has been charged with burglary and stealing a truck after police caught him driving the stolen vehicle Tuesday. The burglary occurred at a home on School Road on the north side where someone is believed to have broken into the house through a window Tuesday morning. Tuesday afternoon, a Madison Police officer spotted the Toyota truck taken in the burglary driving west on Regent ...
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15-year-old accused of breaking into home, stealing truck (The Capital Times)
So, we have a new book out, The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present , published by the Simon & Schuster imprint Fireside Books. It explores our 500 favorite songs from 1977-2006-- interspersed with sidebars on the most vital subgenres from electro to grime to riot grrrl-- to construct an alternate history of the past three decades of popular music. In ...
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The Pitchfork 500: Sinéad O'Connor: "Nothing Compares 2 U" [Stream] (Pitchfork)
Lincoln County, GA—The storied home of the Lincoln County Red Devils will always be home, even when the school moves here. The land is cleared, and construction will soon begin on the new high school that’ll cover about forty-eight acres next to the Board of Education.
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A 15-year-old Mountain Home Public School student was arrested Tuesday afternoon after allegedly throwing a lit firecracker inside a school bus, according to a Baxter County Sheriff’s Office news release.
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Juvenile charged with throwing lit firecracker in school bus (Baxter Bulletin)
In most American text books, Samuel de Champlain serves as a sort of historical speed bump between Christopher Columbus and Lewis and Clark.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author pens Champlain bio (AP via Yahoo! News)