Vermont high school cancels homecoming dance citing raunchy moves, drug use at previous one

Vt. school cancels dance over raunchy moves, drugs

Legal challenges to NCAA threaten to redefine the definition of ‘amateur’ athlete

Lawsuits seek to compensate college athletes

Teens flock to camps based on TV series ‘Glee,’ say show has made choirs cool for school year

Teens mimic ‘Glee’ at summer camp and into fall

Billionaire Broad chooses downtown LA site for art museum after getting committee approval

Billionaire picks downtown LA site for art museum

For some college freshmen, essays on summer reading assignments pay off with prizes, tuition

Colleges award prizes, tuition for summer reading

In polyglot Lebanon, some fear Arabic language is losing ground

Lebanon tries to retain Arabic in polyglot culture

Final chapter? Under budget cuts, library system in poor New Jersey city prepares to shut down

Camden, NJ, preparing to close all its libraries

NCAA adds ‘First 4′ to March Madness, 4 games will have lowest seeds, last 4 at-large choices

March Madness will include 4 first-round games

High school students make Broadway debut; 5 win college scholarships at music theater awards

HS students make B’way debut; 5 win scholarships

High school students make Broadway debut, compete in NYC for music theater awards

HS students compete for top music theater awards

Professor Kagan, a tough questioner, now faces questions herself in seeking high court seat

US President Barack Obama

Tennessee man spells “keratomileusis” to win AARP senior spelling bee in Cheyenne, Wyo.

AARP’s senior spelling title goes to Tennessee man

Colorado ski areas finish season with 11.86M skier visits, up slightly from last season

Colorado skier visits up slightly this season

Conn. senator says Machu Picchu artifacts held by Yale belong to people of Peru

Senator: Artifacts held by Yale belong to Peru

700,000 genealogy tourists a year hit Salt Lake City library in search of family tree

Looking for family tree? Head to Salt Lake City

Streak continues: Indian-American speller from Ohio claims bee victory; 8th in 12 years

Spelling bee winner part of Indian-American streak

Cleveland wins! 14-year-old ends Ohio drought, spells ’stromuhr’ to win National Spelling Bee

Teen breaks Cleveland drought, wins Spelling Bee

Ohio teen spells ’stromuhr’ to win National Spelling Bee, 3rd straight Indian-American champ

Ohio teen wins National Spelling Bee

WASHINGTON — No theatrical flourishes for Anamika Veeramani. She kept her hands behind her back and rattled off the letters of every word she was given — until she was crowned the spelling bee champion.

8 finalists, Shaq and a controversial decision supply lots of drama at National Spelling Bee

Finalists compete for National Spelling Bee crown

Shaq and a controversy: Plenty of drama as 10 advance to prime-time at National Spelling Bee

Shaq and controversy on final day of Spelling Bee

Shaq and a controversy: All in a day’s excitement as finals approach at National Spelling Bee

Shaq and controversy on finals day at Spelling Bee

10 advance to finals of National Spelling Bee; champion to be crowned Friday night

10 advance to finals of National Spelling Bee

Spelling bee favorite knocked out in semifinals; champion to be crowned Friday night

Spelling bee favorite knocked out in semifinals

Spelling bee favorite who was runner-up last year is eliminated, stumped by ‘fustanella’

Spelling bee favorite knocked out in semifinal

Bell tolls for the misspellers as Spelling Bee narrows the field ahead of Friday’s finals

Spelling bee favorite knocked out in semifinal

Time to ring the bell: Spelling Bee moves to semifinals, champion to be crowned Friday night

Ding! National Spelling Bee moves to semifinals

Nothing ‘facetious’ about it: 48 advance to National Spelling Bee semis; winner crowned Friday

48 advance to semifinals of National Spelling Bee

‘Enuf is enuf’: Protesters in bee suits outside Spelling Bee want to make English simpler

In DC, even the Spelling Bee draws protesters

With ’serendipity,’ Alabama girls kicks off 83rd National Spelling Bee; champ crowned Friday

‘Serendipity’ kicks off 83rd National Spelling Bee

Voice of spelling bee and former national champion avoids the limelight; focuses on the words

Former top speller is voice of national bee

1 speller for all of Canada: Recession takes toll on this year’s National Spelling Bee

Recession hits Canada at National Spelling Bee

1 competitor, 1 spelling bee _ but 20,000 note cards for Va. teen to study before the event

1 competitor, 1 spelling bee _ 20,000 note cards

Ex-Justice O’Connor: No Child Left Behind leaves civics education behind

O’Connor, in NY, gives schools poor civics marks

South Korea moves to curb ‘Internet addiction’ with some 2 million people hooked on the web

SKorea targets Internet addicts; 2 million hooked

Canadian teachers whose mock lap dance was captured on video now out of work

Lap dance teachers now out of work

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A pair of Canadian high school teachers whose enthusiasm at a pep rally morphed into a mock lap dance that became an Internet sensation are now out of jobs.

NYC to stop having teachers accused of misconduct spend their days in ‘rubber rooms’

NYC to stop paying teachers to do nothing

NEW YORK — The city will end the practice of paying teachers to play Scrabble, read or surf the Internet in reassignment centers nicknamed “rubber rooms” as they await disciplinary hearings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers union announced Thursday.

Clemson hires Wright State’s Brad Brownell as basketball coach to succeed Oliver Purnell

Clemson selects Brad Brownell as basketball coach

New research: urban tutoring program benefits elderly volunteers as well their students

It’s win-win for elderly tutors, grade-school kids

More Americans hit the river banks instead of the money banks to have free time fun

Gone fishing? More Americans did in ‘09

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — At a time when the economy has shaken big-time sports from the PGA to the NFL, the low-key pastime of fishing has enjoyed a quiet resurgence.

NCAA: Maryland beats Houston 89-77; 8 teams with double-digit seeds advance to second round

NCAA: Chalk-filled Day 2 ends with Maryland win

NCAA: Gary Williams has Maryland close to advancing to second round for second straight year

NCAA: Maryland leading Houston in final minutes

NCAA: California beats Pitino’s Louisville 77-62, advances to play No. 1 seed Duke

NCAA: California defeats Louisville 77-62

Quite the three-headed monster that sent Cal to a 77-62 victory over Louisville and into a second-round game against top-seeded Duke on Sunday. Theo Robertson scored 21 points, Jerome Randle had 19 and Patrick Christopher had 17 points and nine rebounds for the Bears.

NCAA: Houston looking tired; Cougars played 4 games in 4 days in conference tourney

NCAA: Houston looking tired in final minutes

NCAA: Ohio State defeats UC-Santa Barbara, plays Georgia Tech next; Syracuse routs Vermont

NCAA: Ohio State defeats UC-Santa Barbara 68-51

Scalpel, stethoscope, Tolstoy: Doctors embrace literature as tool to connect with patients

Book clubs for doctors show human side of medicine

Zeglinski helps Virginia snap monthlong skid, beat Boston College 68-62 in ACC 1st round

Virginia beats Boston College 68-62 in ACCs

Peru withdraws fraud, conspiracy claims against Yale in lawsuit over Machu Picchu artifacts

Peru lifts some Machu Picchu claims against Yale

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum expands reach with archive, library building

Music museum expands reach with archive, library

Brazilian woman, expelled from school for short miniskirt, emerges as Rio Carnival star

Disgraced in skirt scandal, woman is Carnival star

Brazilian woman expelled from school for short miniskirt transforms into Rio Carnival star

Woman in miniskirt scandal turns Rio Carnival star