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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) State Schools Superintendent Nancy Grasmick says half of the $250 million Maryland received in federal "Race to the Top" funds remain with the state board to help local school systems reach reform goals. Grasmick briefed members of the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee today about how the program is going.
BALTIMORE (AP) The state of Maryland has filed a $4 million lawsuit against the federal government over the 2008 crash of a state police helicopter that killed four people. The state claims in the lawsuit that two air traffic controllers failed to respond adequately to the pilot's distress and contributed to the crash.
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) Police have issued a citation to a school bus driver with careless driving after an accident in November in which a bus overturned, injuring dozens of students. Fifty-nine-year-old Arnold Johnson of Wilmington was charged today.
BALTIMORE (AP) Wayne Rooney's younger brother John has been selected by the New York Red Bulls on the second round of the Major League Soccer draft. Having already signed with MLS, the younger Rooney worked out for scouts last week in Florida and was taken by the Red Bulls today.
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Decades Later And Across An Ocean, A Novel Gets Its Due
John Williams' Stoner sold just 2,000 copies when it was originally published in 1965. It's now acknowledged as a classic work, is a best-seller across Europe and the No. 1 novel in the Netherlands.Giant Renaissance Food People Descend Upon New York
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century artist who liked to play with his food, transforming it into the building blocks of many of his fantastical portraits. Artist Philip Haas has taken those portraits out of museums, reinterpreting them as colossal statues that interact with the natural environment.Political Takeaways: Headaches For The White House
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College students and recent graduates crammed the top floor of a tech hub in Nairobi for a competition built around the theme "Solutions for the Next Billion Mobile Users." Africa has more than 600 million mobile phone users (approximately 11 percent of the global total) – and the number is growing.Leave a Comment
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