Education
After 1st vocab test, Spelling Bee gets a champion
A spelling bee week that began with curiosity and angst over a new vocabulary test neared an end the familiar way Thursday night, with bright kids spelling difficult words under the bright lights of prime-time television. The 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee inched toward a conclusion with 11 finalists being ...
Winfrey to Harvard grads: Learn from your failures
The invitation from Harvard University caught Oprah Winfrey at a low point. Her new TV network was struggling, branded a flop in the media, when Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust called last year to ask Winfrey to address 2013 graduates. The request came "in the very moment when I had ...
Billy Joel surprises New York high school
Billy Joel was back in high school. The singer surprised an assembly full of students at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in the borough of Queens on Thursday, appearing with Tony Bennett, who opened the school in 2001 through his Exploring the Arts program. Joel performed songs on ...
Huntington Library receives $32M Munger gift
The Huntington Library has received a $32 million gift from investor and philanthropist Charles T. Munger to help build a new education and visitor center at the San Marino, Calif., institution. The library said Thursday that the contribution is the lead gift toward the $60 million project, which will have ...
Barbara weakens to tropical storm, kills 2 people
Hurricane Barbara drenched a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's southern Pacific coast with rain Wednesday after making the second-earliest landfall since reliable record-keeping began in 1966. It quickly lost strength over land but not before killing at least two people, including a man identified by local officials as a U.S. ...
Univ. of Illinois to insure student sex changes
Starting this fall, the student health insurance plan at the University of Illinois-Chicago will cover sex-change surgery. University trustees agreed to allow the coverage at their regular meeting Wednesday in Chicago, but only after a relatively unusual discussion about whether the procedure could lead to taxpayer funding being used for ...
Kids read to shelter dogs in after-school program
Gavin Vineyard gave up a good game of dodge ball for a chance to read. The young Grantsdale School sports enthusiast didn't even bat an eye when he made his choice on a recent Wednesday afternoon. He did it for the dogs. Vineyard was one of a group of Keystone ...
Activist crawls to protest planned school closing
An activist is crawling about 30 miles in an eye-catching, bright red jumpsuit to protest a Michigan school district's plans to stop offering high school education to students. The Battle Creek Enquirer reports (http://bcene.ws/14632l5 ) Bobby Holley began the crawl Tuesday morning in Battle Creek and hopes to arrive at ...
Judge limits texts, photos in Trayvon Martin case
Attorneys won't be able to mention Trayvon Martin's drug use, suspension from school and past fighting during opening statements at the trial of a former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot the teen, a judge ruled Tuesday. However, Circuit Judge Debra Nelson left open the possibility that the defense could ...
Is Newtown ready to laugh? Comedy benefit hopes so
In comedy, timing is everything. Less than six months after a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, Treehouse Comedy Productions plans to put on a show at the Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, Conn., to benefit those affected by the massacre. The event, "Stand ...
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