2012-05-16 16:40:53
Franciscan University in Ohio drops student health insurance over contraception coverage
A Roman Catholic university in eastern Ohio says it will drop student health insurance partly because of a new federal health care rule requiring religious-affiliated institu......
2012-05-16 16:25:20
The states of Missouri and Kansas are divided here only by the yellow stripe of State Line Road. It's a single community, but the division is sharp when it comes to the cutthroat business of economic development.
The two states have burned through hundreds of mil......
2012-05-16 16:23:41
No charges will be filed against three white Pittsburgh police officers who were accused of using excessive force in beating a black teenager, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said at a news conference there i......
2012-05-16 16:14:09
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sought Wednesday to raise the profile of agricultural research at universities like Penn State as Congress begins the arduous task of renewing the farm bill.
Penn State leads more than 65 federal research grants totaling mor......
2012-05-16 16:07:14
Cristobal Steffens and his sister Natalie were the first in their family to go to college, and both emerged with good jobs. But they also joined the 500,000 Chileans who have had to take on sometimes-crushing debts. Their father put up the family home as collateral for student loans......
2012-05-16 15:41:25
Gov. Tom Corbett says school districts should be dipping into their reserves to avoid cutting programs next year, although public school advocates say most districts are already using the money.
Corbett told a radio interviewer Wednesday that now's the time to us......
2012-05-16 15:36:53
The Army is replacing the first female commander of its prestigious drill sergeant school, it announced Wednesday, just days after it lifted her unexplained six-month suspension.
Even so, Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa King says she will remain in the service and work ......
2012-05-16 15:16:09
Tulane is suing to overturn the New Orleans City Council's move to explore zoning restrictions that could hinder the university's effort to build an on-campus stadium.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in civil district court asks a judge to rule that the interim zonin......
2012-05-16 13:35:23
A teacher has gone on trial after publicly claiming that she was pressured to help rig Russia's parliamentary election in December to boost the results for Vladimir Putin's party.
Like many teachers and principals in Russia, Tatyana Ivanova was in charge of a pol......
2012-05-16 13:14:22
ATLANTA (AP) -- Police in an Atlanta suburb are escorting school buses and guarding students at bus stops after a man aimed a rifle at a bus with children on board and dropped a notebook that listed bus numbers.
The man fled when witnesses confronted him Monday m......
2012-05-16 12:47:35
Student protesters have stormed a university in Montreal in an effort to disrupt classes as the Quebec government deals with a standoff over rising tuition fees. One-third of Quebec students are on strike.
About 100 protesters marched through the Universite du Qu......
2012-05-16 12:34:18
MIT provost L. Rafael Reif, an internationally recognized electrical engineer who learned to speak English after coming to the U.S. for graduate school from his native Venezuela, was named MIT's 17th president on Wednesday.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technolo......
2012-05-16 11:17:20
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta named a new education minister on Wednesday after his two previous appointments were forced to quit over allegations of plagiarism and incompetence.
Ponta appointed Liviu Pop, a trade union leader, as education minister on We......
2012-05-16 08:56:46
Wyoming men's basketball student-athlete Luke Martinez will speak at two schools on the Wind River Reservation about how Native Americans can succeed in higher education and athletics.
Martinez was invited by the Northern Arapaho Tribal Education Department. ......
2012-05-16 08:35:04
Trenton's Board of Education has chosen a Philadelphia school administrator as its newest school superintendent.
Francisco Duran was approved on a 5-4 vote.
The Times of Trenton reports (_http://bit.ly/K7eOCF) Duran is leaving a job as assista......
2012-05-16 04:02:40
Michigan State University says its museum has received two federal grants to support traditional art forms.
The university says the funding comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, which is giving $24.8 million through 788 artworks grants.
......
2012-05-16 03:11:40
DANIELA BERRETTA,Associated PressDANIELLA CHESLOW,Associated Press
After years of neglect, the Palestinians are going green.
In a society preoccupied with the struggle for independence from Israel, protecting the environment has often been sidelined -- as evidenced by the ubiquitous sight of burning trash and piles of garbage ba......
2012-05-15 21:38:58
Clemson freshman running back Mike Bellamy was ruled academically ineligible and won't return to school next fall.
Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said Tuesday that Bellamy plans to enter a junior college this summer. Bellamy was a Parade All-American and considered co......
2012-05-15 19:03:35
Neither bad weather nor car accident nor even feeling bad could stop Gennesaret Sealy from attending school every single day, nor could they stop her brother before her.
Sealy is set to graduate June 5 from Loveless Academic Magnet Program High School in Montgome......
2012-05-15 18:01:01
The mother of a 9-year-old boy who brought a gun to a Washington state school that discharged and wounded a classmate pleaded guilty on Tuesday to weapons charges under a plea deal with prosecutors, dismaying the victim's family.
Jamie Chaffin pleaded guilty to t......
2012-05-15 17:41:07
'PILING ON' AGAINST JANE ORIE IS CORRECT ON TAXPAYERS' BEHALF
A professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh characterizes it as "piling on," but prosecutors' attempt to force convicted state Sen. Jane Orie to repay more than $1.5 million in legal f......
2012-05-15 17:40:43
A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit can proceed against a large for-profit education company accused of using improper sales tactics to lure unqualified students and the billions of dollars in financial aid they bring.
Judge Terrence McVerry said in a ruling......
2012-05-15 02:31:57
While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before Mother's Day.
The bouquet arrived two days ahead of Sunday's holiday, with a note from the 21-year-old saying she would cele......
2012-05-14 22:15:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Joe Kurjiaka's memory will live on when Manheim Township School District students begin classes in the fall at the district's newest school.
Township residents Ken and Wendy Phillips have donated more than $10,000 worth of stock to the district in honor of Kurjiaka, the longtime business ......
2012-05-14 23:11:50
The president of Florida State University says moving the athletic program from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big 12 has several drawbacks to be considered.
FSU president Eric Barron sent an email to those who have asked him about the possibility of the Se......
2012-05-14 22:10:26
If Brandi Chastain could have cried foul, she would have.
The world-famous U.S. women's soccer player was in Sacramento on Monday with her Brazilian counterpart Sissi to be honored by the California Assembly as it recognized the 40th anniversary of Title IX. ......
2012-05-14 21:17:44
The NCAA has penalized Grambling State's men's basketball program for its academic performance, but it didn't restrict the program's membership.
Grambling didn't meet the Academic Progress Rate's minimum requirements in the most recent year, and the program was a......
2012-05-14 21:13:28
While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before Mother's Day.
The bouquet arrived two days ahead of Sunday's holiday, with a note from the 21-year-old saying she would cele......
2012-05-14 21:02:13
The email, obtained by the AP, sent by Florida State President Eric Barron to those who have asked him about the possibility of the school leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference for the Big 12.
I want to assure you that any decision made about ......
2012-05-14 20:34:56
A prosecutor and university police have asked the State Bureau of Investigation to look into a program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in which a school review already has found academic fraud.
Orange-Chatham District Attorney Jim Woodall said ......
2012-05-14 19:46:14
University of California police raided a four-week Occupy encampment at a college-owned farm used for agriculture research early Monday, arresting nine people after protesters ignored yet another weekend deadline to leave.
About 100 officers clad in riot gear arr......
2012-05-14 19:30:26
Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposes $8.3 billion in spending cuts for the fiscal year that begins July 1, as well as tax revenue he hopes to generate from his proposed temporary increases in the sales tax and income taxes on the wealthy. The cuts Brown proposed include:
......
2012-05-14 18:55:14
Florida A&M University's prestigious marching band, scarred by the hazing death of one of its drum majors, won't be taking the field for at least another year.
At a school where people attend football games just for the Marching 100 halftime show, where stude......
2012-05-14 18:25:30
While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before Mother's Day.
The bouquet arrived two days ahead of Sunday's holiday, with a note from the 21-year-old saying she would cele......
2012-05-14 17:14:34
Bill O'Brien has quickly put to rest any notion that he plans to stick around as long as the last Penn State football coach.
Don't expect his tenure in Happy Valley to last 46 years.
"I can tell you that 46 years from now, I'll be 88 year......
2012-05-14 16:21:55
In a Sept. 25 story about efforts by American colleges and universities to ensure that students studying abroad truly experience life in a foreign land, The Associated Press erroneously reported where Spanish Professor Sonja Bontrager teaches. The correct school is Newman University......
2012-05-14 10:32:08
Many prominent people have seen their careers founder after inaccuracies were revealed in their academic or professional biographies, including two leaders of Yahoo Inc. departing Sunday.
They are:
-- Scott Thompson, CEO -- Leaves the company ......
2012-05-14 02:05:51
The New Zealand university hosting U.S. students who were involved in a deadly weekend minivan crash said that they discourage international students from driving and will ratchet up those warnings in the future.
The cause of Saturday's crash, which killed three ......
2012-05-13 20:34:31
Many prominent people have seen their careers founder after inaccuracies were revealed in their academic or professional biographies, including two leaders of Yahoo Inc. departing Sunday.
They are:
-- Scott Thompson, CEO -- Leaves the company ......
2012-05-13 17:15:24
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has told University of North Carolina graduates that last week's gay marriage vote shows there is still a lot of work to be done for civil rights in this country.
Bloomberg spoke Sunday to thousands of graduates at Kenan Memo......
2012-05-13 15:25:28
For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University.
A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school. But Sunday was payback time: The 52-year-old janitor donned a cap and gown......
2012-05-13 12:12:27
On the second floor of the Mildred and Louis Lasch Football Building, there is a little-known bust of Louis -- "Pop Pop" to his grandchildren -- that some workers within the building on the Penn State University campus don't even know exists.
Many also ......
2012-05-13 09:09:47
The class of 2012 is leaving college with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession have lacked: jobs.
To the relief of graduating seniors -- and their anxious parents -- the outlook is brighter than it has been in four years. Campus jo......
2012-05-13 05:54:00
KASIE HUNT,Associated PressRACHEL ZOLL,Associated Press
Mitt Romney's Mormon faith has shaped his life, but he barely mentioned it as he spoke to graduates at an evangelical university Saturday.
And he hardly touched on hot-button social issues like abortion and gay marriage, instead offering a broad-based defense of ......
2012-05-13 02:14:06
With graduation approaching, a time for celebration turned somber at Boston University on Saturday as students who were packing up at the end of the school year learned that three classmates studying in New Zealand were killed when their minivan crashed during a weekend trip.
......
2012-05-12 20:29:58
NFL linebacker Andra Davis is among some 3,000 students who received undergraduate degrees Saturday at UNLV.
UNLV athletic officials say the 33-year-old linebacker took part in commencement ceremonies after earning his bachelor's degree in social science studies ......
2012-05-12 19:46:26
Two residents of a Tennessee assisted living center plan to marry on Sunday, more than 60 years after they first met.
The State Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/IYjAFw) that Peggy Schuster and the Rev. Henry Freund were college sweethearts in the early 1950s. ......
2012-05-12 19:26:50
KASIE HUNT,Associated PressRACHEL ZOLL,Associated Press
Mitt Romney's Mormon faith has shaped his life, but he barely mentioned it as he spoke to graduates at an evangelical university Saturday.
And he hardly touched on hot-button social issues like abortion and gay marriage, instead offering a broad-based defense of ......
2012-05-12 17:19:56
The largest independent college of contemporary music in the world has awarded honorary degrees to the Eagles and Grammy Award-winning country singer Alison Krauss at a ceremony in Boston.
The city's Berklee College of Music also has honored influential Ethiopian......
2012-05-12 16:42:16
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- In a country where the news is typically bad, if not catastrophic, many people in Haiti look at the past year under a musician-turned-president with guarded surprise.
Yes, parliament and President Michel Martelly were in a standoff t......
2012-05-12 16:40:11
The historic action that four North Carolina college students took that led to desegregation at lunch counters more than half a century ago shows what young people can do to change their world for the better, first lady Michelle Obama said during a commencement speech Saturday. ......
2012-05-12 16:39:56
State education officials will no longer use a standardized test question that asked third-graders to reveal a secret and write about why it was difficult to keep.
The question appeared on the writing portion of some versions of the New Jersey Assessment of Skill......
2012-05-12 12:41:12
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- In a country where the news is typically bad, if not catastrophic, many people in Haiti look at the past year under a musician-turned-president with guarded surprise.
Yes, parliament and President Michel Martelly were in a standoff t......
2012-05-12 10:20:18
Just down the hall from the reference desk at Emory University's law library in a room housing antique legal texts is Stanley the golden retriever puppy, barking his head off.
Stanley rolls around on the floor and chews on a squeaky toy while zombie-like law stud......
2012-05-12 09:39:41
Wanda Ramey stood on the University of Colorado campus, cane in one hand, "Close The Pay Gap" sign in the other. The rally for equal pay among women in the workplace was the 65-year-old spitfire's second stop in a day of meetings and protests.
A registe......
2012-05-11 22:50:00
DIANE BITTING
They're called miniTHONS, these 12-hour dance marathons held by high schools to raise money to help pediatric cancer patients through the Four Diamonds Fund.
But there is nothing small about the effort it takes to put on one of these events.
Just ask Hannah E. Herman, a Hempfield ......
2012-05-11 22:39:00
ENELLY BETANCOURT
Nearly 1,500 people gathered Friday afternoon on the campus of Lancaster Bible College to commemorate the achievements of 211 graduating students.
LBC's commencement ceremony was held in the Good Shepherd Chapel.
Donning their graduation robes and caps, the largest graduating clas......
2012-05-11 22:03:01
An Indian appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a U.S. teenager who had been accused of killing his mother while on vacation in western India.
The Rajasthan High Court ordered Joncarlo Patton's immediate release from a juvenile detention facility, ......
2012-05-11 21:01:14
When Mitt Romney was a good-looking teen in the buttoned-up '60s, corporal punishment was the norm and bullying had a different, more acceptable name: hijinks.
Yet in today's zero-tolerance world when it comes to, well, just about everything, things haven't chang......
2012-05-11 20:07:40
An Indian appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a U.S. teenager who had been accused of killing his mother while on vacation in western India.
The Rajasthan High Court ordered Joncarlo Patton's immediate release from a juvenile detention facility, ......
2012-05-11 17:30:00
MIAH SHEPPERSON, 16, Freestyle
Many high school graduates will be attending college next fall, but Hempfield High School senior Kyle Manley doesn't believe he ever will attend a university. Instead, he has chosen a career with the U.S. Army.
"I wanted to be a part of something bigger than myself, so I chose the Army," ......
2012-05-11 17:27:35
Authorities are trying to determine what caused the death of a man whose body was found on the steps of a suburban Philadelphia library.
Police say the body was fully clothed when it was found by security personnel early Friday outside the Montgomery County-Norri......
2012-05-11 17:25:43
A plan to restructure statewide library services for the blind and disabled is being criticized by librarians and patrons who say the ill-conceived overhaul will limit book availability and hinder service for thousands of patrons in eastern Pennsylvania.
State of......
2012-05-11 16:58:05
The presidential candidates tried to put aside politically risky talk of gay rights Friday and return to Americans' top worry, the economy, in two states critical to the hopes of President Barack Obama and his rival Mitt Romney.
Obama discussed how to help homeow......
2012-05-11 16:54:05
Joshua Ledet has not won "American Idol" -- not yet anyway -- but he'll get a hero-like reception when he returns to his home state of Louisiana this weekend.
The 20-year-old top-three finalist on Fox's TV singing competition is scheduled to ride in a n......
2012-05-11 16:39:29
The University of Minnesota's Board of Regents has approved an agreement with the Minnesota Vikings that allows the use of TCF Bank Stadium during the NFL team's construction of its new stadium.
The board unanimously approved the letter of intent on Friday. It is......
2012-05-11 16:39:10
A Catholic bishop and a group that promotes equal rights for gays and lesbians have agreed to present a college scholarship to a gay student during an award ceremony.
Bishop Martin Amos in Davenport and the Eychaner Foundation announced the agreement Friday to pr......
2012-05-11 16:24:34
Some New Jersey parents are steamed about a question on a statewide standardized test this week that asked some third-graders to write about a secret and why it was hard to keep.
Richard Goldberg, a Marlboro dentist, was appalled when he asked his twin 9-year-old......
2012-05-11 16:08:12
Whether she was hiking in the woods, growing organic vegetables or working on her master's degree in psychology, Aimee Copeland embraced her passions with determination and a constant smile that made friends wonder if she ever had bad days.
Now the 24-year-old Ge......
2012-05-11 15:19:26
George Mason is staying in the Colonial Athletic Association.
The school in Fairfax, one of three league basketball powers that acknowledged considering a change in conference affiliation, announced Friday that staying put is in its best interests.
......
2012-05-11 14:00:44
The widow of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy will be giving a spring commencement speech at a Roman Catholic college in Massachusetts after all.
Boston College Law School announced Friday that Victoria Kennedy will give the keynote address at its May 25 commencement....
2012-05-11 12:10:43
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) -- A gay high school student in northeastern Pennsylvania said he was humiliated after a teacher showed her class a video of him dancing at the prom with his transgender date.
Jared Swank, 18, said the teacher was a chaperone at last week's......
2012-05-11 09:09:00
A paper reports that California University of Pennsylvania may be stuck with a $59 million convocation center that is far too big and costly for its needs.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (http://bit.ly/JF71Ps ) reports Friday that in 2005 a consultant found that an ......
2012-05-11 05:23:11
The panicked voice came into Ambition's air traffic control room -- one of the aircraft carrier's young pilots was in trouble.
"Dude, my nose is down," the pilot shouted as he struggled to regain control over his X12 experimental Triad aircraft.
......
2012-05-11 03:12:10
The U.S. Navy may hurt more dolphins and whales by using sonar and explosives in Hawaii and California under a more thorough analysis that reflects new research and covers naval activities in a wider area than previous studies.
The Navy estimates its use of explo......
2012-05-11 02:19:51
Florida A&M University's famed marching band - tarnished by the beating death of one of its drum majors - appears unlikely to take the field once again anytime soon.
A new set of revelations this week that more than 100 band members weren't even FAMU students......
2012-05-11 00:42:34
The U.S. Navy says its training and testing using sonar and explosives could potentially hurt more dolphins and whales in Hawaii and California waters than previously thought.
The new research and more thorough analysis are part of a draft environmental impact st......
2012-05-10 22:54:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Taxes will be going up next year for all Manheim Township School District property owners, but those whose children participate in sports and other extracurricular activities will face an additional tax burden.
At least that's how Bob Geisenberger sees it.
Geisenberger, of Suffolk......
2012-05-10 20:54:09
Records show that the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts identified her race as "white" on an employment record at the University of Texas and declined to apply for admission to Rutgers Law School under a program for minority students.
......
2012-05-10 20:04:38
Louis H. Pollak, a federal judge who as a young lawyer helped work on the pivotal school-desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, and later served as dean of two Ivy League law schools, has died. He was 89.
Pollak, a U.S. district judge, died Tuesday at hi......
2012-05-10 19:59:30
Tulane football player Lawrence Burl has been indefinitely suspended following his May 3 arrest on drug and weapons charges, the university said Thursday.
"We have high expectations for our student-athletes at Tulane and we will make no exceptions for any in......
2012-05-10 18:16:53
Western Kentucky has introduced Todd Stewart as the school's new director of athletics after he'd served in the role on an interim basis since March 22.
Stewart spent the last two years as senior associate athletic director before taking over as interim athletic ......
2012-05-10 16:36:40
Instead of playing in a championship baseball game, Paige Sultzbach and her team won't even make it to the dugout.
A Phoenix school that was scheduled to play the 15-year-old Mesa girl and her male teammates forfeited the game rather than face a female player....
2012-05-10 16:25:49
Florida's top state university official is asking Florida A&M University to keep its famed band off the field.
Eleven FAMU band members have been charged with felony hazing in connection to the death of drum major Robert Champion in November.
......
2012-05-10 15:39:41
A new government report indicates that only about a third of Pennsylvania's eighth-graders are proficient in science.
Results from the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress were released Thursday. The study also shows the state's science scores have dr......
2012-05-10 15:16:00
BY KATHLEEN DAMINGER
Music Goes 'Beyond' ... Saturday
The music that concert-goers enjoy at Neffsville Mennonite Church Saturday night will resound much farther than the walls of the venue. Beyond Ourselves and the Lancaster-based choral group Voices of Cecilia will join forces in a Reaching Out Through Music......
2012-05-10 14:08:10
Hoping to secure some stability at the top of its athletic department, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hired former Ohio State athletic director Andy Geiger on Thursday.
Geiger, who oversaw winning programs and major construction projects but also weathered......
2012-05-10 12:12:04
Educators exasperated by the need for greater parent involvement have persuaded Tennessee lawmakers to sign off on a novel bit of arm-twisting: Asking parents to grade themselves on report cards.
Another Tennessee measure signed into law recently will create pare......
2012-05-10 10:39:10
Eighth-graders in the U.S. are doing better in science than they were two years ago, but seven out of 10 still are not considered proficient, the federal government said Thursday.
What's more, just 2 percent have the advanced skills that could lead to careers in ......
2012-05-10 09:38:34
A Florida high school science teacher faces dismissal amid allegations that she used a "cone of shame" dog collar to discipline students.
Pasco County schools superintendent Heather Fiorentino has recommended firing 47-year-old Laurie Bailey-Cutkomp for......
2012-05-10 08:48:25
The principal of a western Pennsylvania high school has settled a discrimination lawsuit with the school district.
The Washington Observer-Reporter (http://bit.ly/JfRjfJ ) reports Thursday that David Helinski will get legal fees, sick days, $22,000, and a pay rai......
2012-05-10 05:12:42
Students at Uniondale High School are set to get a visit from a famous graduate.
Sheryl Lee Ralph, a member of the original cast of the Broadway show Dreamgirls, is returning to her alma mater Thursday morning.
She is expected to talk about he......
2012-05-09 22:02:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Most of the clerical positions slated to be cut in next year's School District of Lancaster budget apparently will be spared.
So will the vocational education programs and positions that were threatened with elimination as part of the 2012-13 spending plan.
The SDL board Tuesday a......
2012-05-09 20:23:18
An emotional Gov. John Hickenlooper said Wednesday that he's pulling Colorado lawmakers back to work to resolve a debate over civil unions that ended abruptly without a House vote a day earlier.
Hickenlooper's announcement on the final day of the 2012 regular leg......
2012-05-09 17:43:34
Penn State athletes answered questions about how they're dealing with the fallout from the crisis that enveloped the school with statements on the field or in the gym.
This spring alone, the embattled athletic program won a second straight NCAA wrestling title; a......
2012-05-09 17:28:47
The judge in Jerry Sandusky's criminal case Wednesday did not immediately resolve remaining disputes over what information the defense is entitled to from schools, child services agencies and others, but he said he wanted to swiftly resolve the disagreements and push the case toward......
2012-05-09 16:34:37
Public libraries in several states are pulling the racy romance trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey" from shelves or deciding not to order the best-seller at all, saying it's too steamy or too poorly written.
Even in the age of e-books and tablets, banning a ......
2012-05-09 16:34:11
ALTOONA, HARRISBURG, BOTH ARE BUSTED; IS DuBOIS NEXT?
DuBois isn't anywhere near bankruptcy, as far as we know.
Neither are Brockway, Reynoldsville, Sykesville, Brookville, Ridgway, St. Marys or Clearfield, unless someone is keeping something ......
2012-05-09 13:34:23
A controversial practice that has allowed tens of thousands of young ultra-Orthodox men to avoid compulsory military service has emerged as a looming test for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new coalition government -- and one that could create major mayhem in the Jewish state....
2012-05-08 22:57:00
TOM KNAPP
Hempfield School District has found a better deal elsewhere.
The Hempfield school board on Tuesday approved a measure to withdraw from the Lancaster-Lebanon Public Schools joint purchasing agreement, which allows school districts to pool their resources and get lower prices on bulk suppli......
2012-05-08 20:57:45
University of California students could face significantly higher tuition if the state doesn't increase funding and voters reject the governor's tax initiative, school administrators said Tuesday.
Under one scenario, the 10-campus system would raise tuition by 6 ......
2012-05-08 20:14:19
Football players at North Carolina made up more than a third of enrollments in suspect classes within a department the school investigated for academic fraud.
The school said Tuesday football players represented 246 of 686 enrollments (36 percent) in the 54 cours......
2012-05-08 19:55:25
Virginia Tech says Dorian Finney-Smith, an All-Atlantic Coast Conference freshman last season, has asked for his release from the school.
Associate athletic director Tom Gabbard says new coach James Johnson met with Finney-Smith and his mother last Friday. During......
2012-05-08 19:08:30
Football players at North Carolina made up more than a third of enrollments in suspect classes within a department the school investigated for academic fraud.
The school said Tuesday football players represented 246 of 686 enrollments (36 percent) in the 54 cours......
2012-05-08 18:47:34
A principal says his suburban high school outside Las Vegas is great, but probably shouldn't win the title of 13th best in the nation.
Principal Jeff Horn is questioning the data that landed Henderson's Green Valley High School in the company of elite prep school......
2012-05-08 18:37:55
Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill Tuesday to preserve low interest rates for millions of college students' loans, as the two parties engaged in election-year choreography aimed at showing each is the better protector of families in today's rugged economy.
......
2012-05-08 18:21:42
Philadelphia University has received a $15 million gift -- the largest donation in its history -- to name a college and support the school's vision for transdisciplinary learning, President Stephen Spinelli announced Tuesday.
The university's College of Design, E......
2012-05-08 18:19:28
Pennsylvania's state-supported universities, struggling public schools, equine industry, hospitals, nursing homes and people who depend on county-run social services all would benefit from a state Senate Republican budget plan that divvies up about $900 million in newly anticipated ......
2012-05-08 17:31:50
Pennsylvania college students are urging federal lawmakers to strike a deal to avert a spike in student loan interest rates, saying higher education is already expensive enough.
Without a compromise, rates on subsidized Stafford loans will double from 3.4 percent......
2012-05-08 16:42:15
The governor of Puerto Rico is trying to do what more than a century of American citizenship has failed to accomplish: make Puerto Ricans fluent in English.
Gov. Luis Fortuno, who has been mentioned as a possible Republican vice-presidential candidate, has propos......
2012-05-08 11:39:23
Police say two western Pennsylvania elementary school students appear to be fine after a school van being driven by their grandmother struck a tree and overturned.
Southwest Regional Police say the woman driving the van was taken to hospital in Pittsburgh followi......
2012-05-08 11:18:28
Employees of a southwest Oregon school district are on strike and classes have been canceled as contract negotiations continue.
The strike at Eagle Point began at 6 a.m. Tuesday. The district near Medford has 328 employees, including 186 teachers.
......
2012-05-08 11:01:13
University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann will spend the next several years at the helm of the Ivy League school.
Trustees announced Tuesday that Gutmann is getting a five-year contract extension.
Officials cited increased alumni engage......
2012-05-08 07:08:58
A Nigerian police official says that three time bombs were found in different sections of a university in the city of Kano.
Police spokesman Magaji Musa Majiya said Tuesday that the university personnel alerted the police after finding the bombs in the science an......
2012-05-08 06:30:08
The former principal of a southeastern Pennsylvania Christian school faces sex assault charges for allegedly carrying on a physical relationship with a student.
Former Berks Christian School principal Franklin Love surrendered to police on Monday and was arraigne......
2012-05-07 22:26:00
BRIAN WALLACE
For years, memorabilia from McCaskey High School's sports past have been buried in boxes stashed in a basement boiler room.
Countless athletic trophies — many of them broken — have been languishing in storage, along with a painting of Olympian and McCaskey alumnus Barney Ewell......
2012-05-07 23:28:48
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is sorry for allowing an inaccuracy about his education to appear in his official bio, but not remorseful enough to heed calls for him to resign.
Thompson apologized for the uproar caused by the misinformation in a memo sent Monday to the......
2012-05-07 21:12:00
BRIAN WALLACE
School District of Lancaster is considering "outsourcing" the management of its custodial and maintenance services to save more than $200,000 over the next three years.
The move would mean eliminating three district administrative jobs in 2012-13.
Members of the SDL board's financ......
2012-05-07 19:43:37
Republicans who control the Pennsylvania Senate advanced a plan Monday to increase Gov. Tom Corbett's 2012-13 spending proposal by more than a half-billion dollars, saying improved tax collections will make more money available for education, social services and other programs targe......
2012-05-07 19:12:37
Connecticut Athletic Director Warde Manuel said Monday he has no plans to name Kevin Ollie or anyone else as a coach-in-waiting for the men's basketball program.
Coach Jim Calhoun, who turns 70 this month, is expected to return next season, but has not made his f......
2012-05-07 18:52:31
Americans swiped their credit cards more often in March and took out more loans to attend school. That drove the biggest one-month increase in U.S. consumer borrowing in a decade.
Consumer debt rose by $21.4 billion in March from February, the Federal Reserve sai......
2012-05-07 18:24:10
Overruling school officials, a Catholic bishop in Iowa said Monday he would not let a group that promotes equal rights for gays and lesbians present a college scholarship to an openly gay student during an upcoming award ceremony.
Bishop Martin Amos in Davenport ......
2012-05-07 18:07:40
Wary of tax increases, weary of layoffs and determined to avoid bankruptcy, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras had only to gaze up at his city's Ivy League campus to see a way out of the morass.
On College Hill sits Brown University, with a $2.5 billion endowment and......
2012-05-07 17:32:34
The White House pressed Republicans Monday to back Democratic legislation preventing interest rates on federal student loans from doubling in July as the two parties remained deadlocked over how to pay for the move.
"As the economy continues to recover, and ......
2012-05-07 16:43:01
A 6-year-old boy is back at his suburban Denver school after being suspended for three days for reciting a racy line from a popular song.
D'Avonte Meadows, a first-grader at Sable Elementary School in Aurora, returned to class Monday after serving out his suspens......
2012-05-07 14:47:51
A new Penn State University employee says he was surprised at all the media attention over his job, a position created in the wake of child sex abuse allegations being lodged against retired assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Gabriel Gates was hired to trai......
2012-05-07 14:47:32
The parents of a New Jersey college student whose body was found in a Pennsylvania landfill six years ago have settled a wrongful death lawsuit they filed against their son's school and the state.
The Times of Trenton (http://bit.ly/J8ZH0l) reports John and Susan......
2012-05-07 14:42:55
A rare book almost 270 years old has been found in the vault of the oldest library in the South, but after all this time the library won't be able to keep it.
The 1743 tome, "Dissertation Upon Parties" by Henry St. John Lord Bolingbroke, was one of 800 ......
2012-05-07 12:20:50
Sallie Mae will offer fixed-rate, private loans for students and families for the first time to help finance the cost of college, the lender said Monday.
The new fixed interest rates, available to college undergrads and graduate students as of May 21, will range ......
2012-05-07 11:14:06
He's too good, and that's too bad.
A 13-year-old New York boy who played field hockey growing up in Ireland has been told that after two years as a member of the Southampton High School girls' team, he is now too skilled to qualify for an exemption allowing him t......
2012-05-07 10:17:53
JOHN L. MICEK,The Morning CallSTEVE ESACK,The Morning Call
Thorough and efficient.
Those three words can be found in Section 14 of the Pennsylvania Constitution: "The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public education to serve the needs of the Common......
2012-05-07 08:18:05
U.S. consumers likely increased their borrowing in March for a seventh consecutive month, with gains expected in auto loans.
Economists were looking for consumer borrowing to rise by $10 billion in March, according to a survey by FactSet. The Federal Reserve is s......
2012-05-06 15:53:09
Some international students at the University of Missouri got a crash course in American football, courtesy of some Tiger team members.
The Columbia Missourian recently reported that 150 students attended the Missouri football team's first International Students ......
2012-05-06 15:45:41
Andrew Luck already has a blueprint for his month away from the Colts.
Indy's new quarterback plans to keep his head in the playbook, review film of this weekend's rookie minicamp and work out with as many of his new teammates -- whenever and wherever -- as he ca......
2012-05-06 14:22:58
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has graduated from Miami University in southwest Ohio, about nine years after leaving for the NFL.
The university says the 30-year-old Roethlisberger (RAWTH'-lihs-bur-gur) received his bachelor's degree in educat......
2012-05-06 01:34:07
Not long ago, Advanced Placement exams were mostly for top students looking to challenge themselves and get a head start on college credit. Not anymore.
In the next two weeks, 2 million students will take 3.7 million end-of-year AP exams -- figures well over doub......
2012-05-06 00:08:00
MICHAEL LONG
Anyone who has set up an account with a major online entity such as Apple or Yahoo has had to select and answer a few security questions. These questions tend to be tied to memorable life experiences: What was the name of your first pet? What was the make and model of your first car? And,......
2012-05-05 21:58:58
Arizona State's Trent Lockett, the team's leading scorer last season, says he will transfer to Marquette for his senior season to be closer to his mother, who has been diagnosed with cancer.
Lockett, whose mother lives in Minnesota, already has earned a bachelor'......
2012-05-05 19:22:27
Former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal is a doctor now.
O'Neal received his doctoral degree in education from Barry University alongside 1,100 other students during commencement ceremonies Saturday.
The Miami Herald (http://bit.ly/KCwbej ) reports t......
2012-05-05 17:43:17
George Martin has resigned from the NFL Alumni Association and the NFL Alumni Foundation.
He was executive director of the association and CEO of the foundation for nearly three years.
The boards of directors appointed Joe Pisarcik as interim ......
2012-05-05 15:37:49
George Martin has resigned from the NFL Alumni Association and the NFL Alumni Foundation.
He was executive director of the association and CEO of the foundation for nearly three years. During that time, he helped secure a long-term health care plan for former pro......
2012-05-05 15:37:33
George Martin has resigned from the NFL Alumni Association and the NFL Alumni Foundation.
He was executive director of the association and CEO of the foundation for nearly three years. During that time, he helped secure a long-term health care plan for former pro......
2012-05-05 15:20:18
Wearing a crisp, dark blue academic gown, Danielle Einhorn checked her phone a couple times and looked around anxiously as she waited outside the Jordan Center on Saturday before her graduation from Penn State.
The end of a trying year for Einhorn and fellow stud......
2012-05-05 14:35:35
An Israeli military official says an officer who was punished for hitting a pro-Palestinian activist last month has been reassigned to a training school.
The official said Saturday that Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner is being investigated by military police and can still......
2012-05-05 11:31:59
Los Angeles Unified teacher Mike Newman sighed when he saw the now familiar certified letter in his mailbox last month -- a pink slip, for the fourth year in a row.
"Here we go again," said Newman, a 14-year classroom veteran who's had his previous thre......
2012-05-05 11:02:25
Los Angeles Unified teacher Mike Newman sighed when he saw the now familiar certified letter in his mailbox last month -- a pink slip, for the fourth year in a row.
A new term is being bandied about in California schools -- "the RIFing season," which re......
2012-05-05 03:16:39
An Ohio State recruit has told the Buckeyes he will not attend the university, according to several published reports, amid concern that a convicted sex offender had interactions with players and recruits associated with the program.
Alex Anzalone, one of the nat......
2012-05-04 22:56:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Lancaster County residents hoping for relief from the financial strain of rising property taxes won't get much help from slot machine revenue next year.
The state plans to send about $18.7 million to Lancaster County school districts in property tax relief for 2012-13, according to estima......
2012-05-04 20:39:21
Penn State alumni elected three new members to the university board of trustees, including a well-known former football player who recovered from a spinal cord injury and a businessman who has criticized the board's actions after Jerry Sandusky's arrest in a child sex-abuse scandal.......
2012-05-04 20:26:52
Colorado State University expelled three football players on Friday who were charged with disorderly conduct following an off-campus brawl in Fort Collins in April.
A fourth student also was expelled.
Junior defensive ends Colton Paulhus and N......
2012-05-04 20:21:42
The 21-year-old driver of a U-Haul truck that struck and killed a woman in a tailgating area at the Yale-Harvard football game in 2011 was arrested Friday, charged with negligent homicide with a motor vehicle and reckless driving.
Brendan D. Ross of O'Fallon, Mo.......
2012-05-04 19:20:14
An internal review at North Carolina has found academic fraud and poor oversight within an academic department linked to an NCAA investigation of the football program.
The report released Friday cites 52 courses in the Department of African and Afro-American Stud......
2012-05-04 18:39:25
Scott Thompson's reign as Yahoo's CEO is in jeopardy after just four months on the job because he allowed an inaccuracy about his academic credentials to recur for years.
A major Yahoo shareholder who exposed the fabrication is now leading the charge to oust Thom......
2012-05-04 18:32:33
Penn State will cover the legal expenses of eight employees who received subpoenas from the state attorneys prosecuting the child sex abuse case against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
University general counsel Cynthia Baldwin told school trustee......
2012-05-04 17:17:52
The State Department announced major changes Friday to one of its premier cultural-exchange programs following an investigation by The Associated Press that found widespread abuses.
The agency issued new rules for the J-1 Summer Work and Travel Program, which bri......
2012-05-04 16:49:48
Brazil's top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across this nation, which has more blacks than any country outside Africa yet where a severe gap in education equality between races persists.
The Supreme Cour......
2012-05-04 16:42:53
A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his suburban Denver school for three days after school officials said he told a girl "I'm sexy and I know it," a line from a popular song.
D'Avonte Meadows, a first-grader at Sable Elementary School in Aurora, is accu......
2012-05-04 15:32:01
A Penn State trustee says that two plaintiffs who filed civil lawsuits related to child sexual abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky are not alleged victims in the criminal case against the retired assistant coach.
Trustee Ira Lubert said Friday at a board mee......
2012-05-04 13:52:48
A bear that became famous after it was tranquilized and fell from a tree at the University of Colorado died when it was hit by two cars after returning to town, likely looking for food.
A photograph captured an image of the 280-pound black bear in midair, its arm......
2012-05-04 13:30:04
A teen from Pakistan with a once-bright future in the U.S. pleaded guilty Friday to terrorism charges for helping an American woman dubbed "Jihad Jane" support an Irish terror cell planning to wage a Muslim holy war in Europe.
Mohammad Hassan Khalid had......
2012-05-04 12:23:17
President Barack Obama says college students shouldn't have to pay higher interest rates on their loans just because Congress can't get its act together.
Obama is speaking to students and parents at a high school in Virginia, a general election battleground state......
2012-05-04 12:18:43
State police say a mechanical failure, not suspected vandalism, caused a western Pennsylvania school bus to lose a pair of rear wheels with about 25 elementary school students on board during a field trip.
State troopers initially thought someone may have loosene......
2012-05-04 11:54:18
The State Department announced major changes Friday to its premier student-exchange program following an investigation by The Associated Press that found widespread abuses,
The agency issued new rules for the J-1 Summer Work and Travel Program, which brings more ......
2012-05-04 10:40:54
Nebraska football strength coach James Dobson is being named Master Strength and Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association.
Dobson and 14 other strength coaches will be honored at the association's national conference next......
2012-05-04 05:05:00
Syrian opposition groups planned mass protests Friday, a day after a raid by security forces on dormitories at Aleppo University killed four students and forced the closure of the state-run school.
The dormitory raid was an unusually violent incident for the nort......
2012-05-04 02:02:54
Chinese Foreign Ministry says blind dissident can apply to study abroad.......
2012-05-03 23:03:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Manheim Township School District is considering a slightly smaller tax increase in next year's budget than board members agreed to last month.
But that reduction, from 4.1 percent to 3.96 percent, would be more than offset for many residents by a proposed increase in activity fees for stu......
2012-05-03 22:07:00
STAFF REPORT
The James Hale Steinman Memorial Scholarship Fund awarded three $20,000 scholarships to three seniors who have achieved academic and community service honors while attending high school.
Peggy Steinman presented a check to each senior Thursday at the 49th annual awards dinner. The scholar......
2012-05-03 18:41:35
The Illinois Senate agreed Thursday to stop letting lawmakers hand out free college education to certain constituents, removing the final roadblock to ending a century-old practice plagued by allegations of corruption and political favoritism.
Legislators and gov......
2012-05-03 18:20:53
The president of the University of California said Thursday he has chosen Carnegie Mellon University's engineering school dean to be the next chancellor of UC San Diego.
UC President Mark Yudof said Pradeep Khosla is his choice to serve as the San Diego campus' e......
2012-05-03 17:09:31
State police are trying to determine whether someone loosened the lug nuts on a school bus that lost a pair of driver's side rear wheels with about 25 elementary school students on board during a field trip.
Officials from the Johnsonburg Area School District say......
2012-05-03 15:52:24
Traces of blood and fragments of muscle, tendon, skin and hair found on 2,000-year-old stone knives have given researchers the first conclusive evidence that the obsidian blades were used for human sacrifice so long ago in Mexico.
Researchers had long seen cut ma......
2012-05-03 14:46:14
The stage seemed set for a showdown: G-8 and NATO leaders planned to hold back-to-back summits in Chicago that activists predicted could draw tens of thousands of people protesting everything from war and poverty to unemployment and education cuts.
But at the las......
2012-05-03 14:03:08
Imagine if retirement were financed by scholarships, grants and loans.
You could qualify for a substantial aid package to pay for your senior years. Your stellar job "grades" and career achievements would be rewarded with significant merit aid.
......
2012-05-03 13:05:44
The Illinois Senate has agreed to end the practice of letting lawmakers hand out free college educations to constituents.
The Senate has for years been the last roadblock in efforts to end the program. Thursday's vote makes it likely the Illinois House and govern......
2012-05-03 12:59:15
A court order to stop Israel's longtime practice of exempting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from military service has become a central issue in upcoming elections and could reshape the face of the society. If they are forced to serve, their rabbis fear, they could also enter the work fo......
2012-05-03 12:09:48
Google Inc. has urged a judge to toss The Authors Guild out of litigation over the future of the world's largest digital library.
A lawyer for Google told a Manhattan judge Thursday that authors cannot be represented as a group because their interests are too var......
2012-05-03 10:19:56
A man who resigned as the Heinz Field public address announcer for the Pittsburgh Steelers last month now wants to retire as athletic director of a nearby school district where officials are conducting an internal review of finances.
Randy Cosgrove has not respon......
2012-05-03 09:48:14
A coroner says a western Pennsylvania man behind bars for a notorious 1966 murder has committed suicide in his state prison cell in Greene County.
Seventy-four-year-old Jon Yount took his own life just days before the 46-year anniversary of the rape and murder of......
2012-05-03 09:41:37
Syrian security forces stormed dormitories at Aleppo University to break up anti-government protests, killing at least four students and wounding several others in an hourslong rampage that ended Thursday morning and left part of the campus in flames, activists and opposition groups......
2012-05-03 09:10:21
The American Civil Liberties Union and a southwestern Pennsylvania school district have signed an agreement settling a lawsuit brought by a girl who claimed she was disciplined for refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance.
The Herald-Standard of Uniontow......
2012-05-03 07:15:25
Syrian security forces stormed dorms at a northwestern university to break up anti-government protests there, killing at least four students and wounding several others with tear gas and live ammunition, activists and opposition groups said Thursday.
Around 1,500......
2012-05-02 23:04:00
TOM KNAPP
Residents of Hempfield School District are looking at a 2 percent increase in school taxes in the 2012-13 academic year.
Hempfield school board Tuesday unanimously approved the proposed $103 million budget, up from $98 million in 2011-12.
The tax hike would raise the tax millage r......
2012-05-02 22:59:00
TOM KNAPP
Legislation paving the way for a new style of schooling got a boost Tuesday in Harrisburg.
Senate Bill 1492, which amends the Pennsylvania school code to provide for an open-campus initiative in the works by three Lancaster County school districts, "passed unanimously out of committee, an......
2012-05-02 22:38:00
TOM KNAPP
Hempfield students next year will find it a little harder to claim their report cards were lost in the mail.
Hempfield is going paperless. The suburban school district's goal — possibly as soon as 2013 — is to take student records and correspondence completely online.
......
2012-05-02 20:56:51
Thirteen people were charged Wednesday in one of the biggest college hazing cases ever prosecuted in the U.S., accused in the death of a Florida A&M University drum major who authorities say was mercilessly pummeled by fellow members of the marching band.
The......
2012-05-02 19:42:42
A 19-year-old with Down syndrome took his case for high school sports eligibility to state lawmakers Wednesday, arguing that Michigan should join a growing number of states that consider age-limit exemptions for student athletes whose playing careers are delayed because of disabilit......
2012-05-02 18:04:47
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree: It would be a mistake to let interest rates on student loans double in July. Especially if they're going to be blamed for it in an election year.
Student loans have become a political football in recent weeks, with Demo......
2012-05-02 18:01:54
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said Wednesday she listed herself as having Native American heritage in law school directories because she hoped to meet people with similar roots.
Warren, a Harvard Law School professor, said she never tried to u......
2012-05-02 17:20:17
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam plans to veto a measure that tried to force Vanderbilt University to exempt student religious groups from its nondiscrimination policy. It would be his first veto since taking office in 2010.
The university's so-called "all-comers&......
2012-05-02 17:11:04
A judge announced Wednesday he will hear arguments by two school districts and a charity to throw out defense subpoenas in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case.
Lawyers for the Mifflin County School District and the Keystone Central School District have asked ......
2012-05-02 16:38:37
A Pennsylvania judge will hear arguments next week from two school districts and a charity seeking to have defense subpoenas thrown out in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case.
Lawyers for the Mifflin County School District and the Keystone Central School Dist......
2012-05-02 16:36:08
SILENCE IS PROTECTED FREE SPEECH, TOO
Everyone going into teaching in public schools should have to pass a course outlining the commercial, nonbinding origins of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Maybe if teachers and administrators knew the history o......
2012-05-02 15:56:24
Seeking to make amends for the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, the university said it has given more than $1.1 million in football bowl revenues to its new center for child abuse research and treatment.
The Center for the Protection of Children, started in th......
2012-05-02 15:54:30
A 17-year-old charged in a school shooting is mentally competent to stand trial in juvenile court in the deaths of three students, a judge ruled Wednesday after considering evidence that the boy suffers from hallucinations, psychosis and fantasies.
None of the sy......
2012-05-02 15:32:48
An academic year that no Penn State senior was prepared for comes to a close this week when the university holds graduation ceremonies.
Nearly 13,000 diplomas will be awarded this weekend across the Penn State system. In State College, more than 8,500 undergradua......
2012-05-02 14:58:59
Thirteen people were charged Wednesday for their roles in the hazing death of Florida A&M university drum major who was severely beaten during a ritual, a prosecutor said.
The charges were announced more than five months after 26-year-old Robert Champion died......
2012-05-02 14:54:22
You never can go home.
That cliché might apply to many people, but not to former University of Wyoming basketball standout Chris Engler.
After Laramie and UW, an 11-year pro journey that included NBA stops in San Francisco, Milwau......
2012-05-02 10:21:00
CHAD UMBLE
A year after trimming the equivalent of 1.8 full-time music teachers, Elizabethtown Area School District officials are considering a plan that would drop another music teacher by not replacing one who is retiring. The proposal, which was presented by the district administration during......
2012-05-02 09:44:59
The parents of a New Hampshire teenager who was tattooed against his will have sued the school district.
Michael and Tammy Austin are saying Concord School District officials could have prevented what happened to their son.
Their son was a 14-......
