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Chicago school board votes to close 49 elementary schools
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:39amCHICAGO — After hearing from aldermen, angry parents and community members in a meeting interrupted several times by protesters, the Chicago Board of Education Wednesday approved a plan to close...
Abrupt climate shifts spurred Stone Age innovation in Africa
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:38amLOS ANGELES — A rapid shift in climate that brought wetter and warmer conditions in southern Africa during the Middle Stone Age helped propel innovation and cultural advances in early man, a study...
Deaths 5/23
Obituaries Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:38amFrank Hart
Frank Hart, a lifelong resident of Aberdeen, died at Grays Harbor Community Hospital, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. He was 90.
He was a 1940 graduate of...
City drops funding for Rain or Shine festival
Local Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:38amReacting to budget limitations and declining attendance, City Council voted Wednesday night not to fund the decades old Rain or Shine Jazz Festival in favor of adding money to the Independence Day...
Immigration cases make up 40 percent of federal prosecutions, study says
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:38amLOS ANGELES — Immigration-related offenses are now the leading type of federal prosecution, constituting more than 40 percent of cases compared with 22 percent for drug crimes, according to...
Spokane man indicted in ricin threat
Northwest Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:38amA 38-year-old janitor was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in connection with mailing two ricin-laced letters in Spokane.
Matthew R. Buquet is accused on one count of mailing...
Hearts open for young victims of Oklahoma tornado
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:38amMOORE, Okla. — With this storm, it’s the kids who keep coming to mind.
Third-graders, fifth-graders, the young boys and girls who were trapped and even died in the twisted mountain of metal...
Dear Abby 5/23
Lifestyle Columnist Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:30amDear Abby: I was surprised to see you equate a concerned grandmother’s creative solution to smoking with bribery in your Feb. 14 column. The word “bribe” has a negative connotation. What the...
World Gone By 5/23
Living Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:30am75 years ago, May 23, 1938
• Organization of the Order of Better Americans, a group pledged to combat fascism, communism, naziism and all other unamerican tendencies that may arise of Grays...
Eminem’s song publisher sues Facebook over copyright
Entertainment Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:30amDETROIT — Eminem’s song publisher is suing Facebook and its ad agency, claiming they infringed the rapper’s copyright.
In the 12-page complaint, filed Monday evening in Detroit federal court...
