Surviving the cut: researchers posit how big-money sports could mean smaller athletic programs

Economic woes could mean fewer college teams

Sallie Mae posts 1st-qtr profit, reversing year-ago loss; as bad loans ease, new lending rises

President Barack Obama

7-year-old boy fractures skull in New Mexico school bus fight with another student

NM boy fractures skull in fight on school bus

Hovnanian shares rise; homebuilder agrees to pay $1 million to resolve pollution allegations

Hovnanian hits high after agreeing to penalty

Lawsuits settled over alleged misuse of Ariz. Indian tribe’s blood samples given for research

Lawsuits settled over Arizona tribe blood samples

Mo. education officials back Gov. Nixon’s plan to curtail tax credits; House leaders oppose it

Education leaders back limits on Mo. tax credits

Lesbian student in Miss. who sued over ban on same-sex prom dates seeks damages in new lawsuit

Lesbian student seeks damages for Miss. prom flap

School kids made to walk on embers, glass in Gujarat

SURAT - Some in tears and most in obvious agony. Students, only 10 to 14 years old, of a school in Gujarat’s Surat town were made to walk barefoot on a bed of burning coal and glass shards as an exercise in enhancing determination while parents and elders watched mutely, an eyewitness said.

School bus fight between first-graders leaves 1 with brain injury in New Mexico

NM boy hospitalized after fight on school bus

Officials find nothing suspicious after Colo. high school cancels classes over online threat

Nothing found after threat closes Colorado school

NJ voters reject nearly 60 percent of school budgets; most defeats in at least 34 years

NJ voters reject 59 percent of school budgets

Colo. high school cancels classes over online threat day after Columbine shooting anniversary

Colorado high school cancels classes after threat

Post-graduate law degree may become one-year course

NEW DELHI - A post-graduate degree in law may become a one-year course instead of the current duration of two years, Minister of State for Human Resource Development D. Purandeswari said Wednesday.

Lawsuits settled over alleged misuse of Arizona Indian tribe’s blood samples

Lawsuits over Arizona tribe blood samples settled

US varsity sets up Jain Studies professorship

WASHINGTON - The Florida International University (FIU) has established the Bhagwan Mahavir Professorship of Jain Studies, the first of its kind in the western world, with a $600,000-donation from the Jain Education and Research Foundation.

IGNOU awards certificates to 308 army personnel

NEW DELHI - A total of 308 personnel below officers rank (PBOR) of the Indian army were awarded degrees, diplomas and certificates by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Wednesday in different courses of telecommunication and computers.

Tech worker in Pa. webcam spying case says student had no expectation of privacy

School worker: Pa. teen had no privacy expectation

Bill ready to bar tainted lawyers from becoming judges: Moily

NEW DELHI - The Judges’ Standards and Accountability Bill envisages creation of a data bank of legal professionals to ensure that no professional with dubious antecedent is appointed as a judge in higher judiciary, said Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily Wednesday.

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