WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Mayor Vincent Gray is forming a panel of teachers, students and community members to help select the city’s next schools chancellor. At a news conference Feb. 8, Gray said he expects the panel to be named by the end of the week. He says it will include representatives of the Washington […]
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Arbitrator Reinstates 75 D.C. Teachers Fired by Rhee
WASHINGTON (AP) — An arbitrator has ruled that former Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee improperly fired 75 new District of Columbia teachers in 2008 and is ordering them reinstated with two years of back pay. Arbitrator Charles Feigenbaum found that the school system never told the teachers why they were being fired and gave them no […]
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Sudan Divides, a New Nation is Born
Election officials say the final results from last month’s vote in Southern Sudan show that more than 98 percent of the ballots were cast for independence. The results mean that Southern Sudan will become the world’s newest country in July. Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir said Monday he accepts the outcome of the vote. President Barack […]
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Suspects in Shooting at Omega Psi Phi Frat House to Face Murder Charges
Two men suspected of injuring 11 people and killing one at an Omega Psi Phi Fraternity house in Youngstown, Ohio, will face murder charges, according to Reuters. They have been denied bail. Braylon L. Rogers, 19, and Columbus E. Jones Jr., 22, will face aggravated murder, assault and felony charges for unloading a barrage of […]
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Slavery Museum Property in Jeopardy
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder could be on the verge of losing the 38-acre property in Fredericksburg where he had planned to build a slavery museum. According to the city treasurer’s office, the 38-acre property would be eligible for a tax sale Dec. 31, which would allow the city to collect […]
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Louisiana Purged Dems from Vote Rolls– 2/3rds Black
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Blacks made up nearly two-thirds of the Democrats removed from Louisiana’s voter rolls because they hadn’t voted in at least two years. State election officials tell The Advocate it’s a result of Hurricane Katrina’s displacement of people from heavily Democratic and Black New Orleans. After the hurricane in 2005, the […]
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More than 2,000 Dead of Cholera in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian officials say more than 2,000 people have died of cholera since late October. According to the official count, more than 91,700 people have been sickened by the disease. Cholera had never been seen before in Haiti before the outbreak began along the rural Artibonite River. Due to dire sanitation and […]
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Polish Parliament gets its 1st African Lawmaker
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament is getting its first ever African lawmaker, a teacher and Christian pastor from Nigeria who has lived in Poland for 17 years and proven himself a popular local leader. John Abraham Godson is a councilman in the central city of Lodz. The 40-year-old will fill a seat in the […]
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D.C. Not Ready for Internet Voting
WASHINGTON (AP) — A University of Michigan professor who hacked a prototype D.C. elections voting website with his students and had it play the school’s fight says that it will be decades, if ever, before voting can be done safely over the Internet. Computer science professor Alex Halderman spoke last Friday at a meeting to […]
