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Kings edge Coyotes 4-3 in overtime to win West
A great road playoff run has the Los Angeles Kings in a place they haven't been since the Great One was skating in Southern California. Dustin Penner scored 17:42 into overtime and the Kings beat the Phoenix Coyotes 4-3 in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals Tuesday night to ...
Voters to decide school board term limits
Voters across Louisiana will be asked this fall if they want to enact term limits on their local school boards. A proposal by Ponchatoula Rep. Steve Pugh requiring the term limit question to appear on the Nov. 6 ballot received final legislative passage Tuesday with a 20-16 Senate vote. If ...
Survey shows support for more open government
There's strong support among Nevada political candidates to require regular reporting by lobbyists of how much they spend wining, dining and schmoozing state lawmakers, according to a new survey released Wednesday. The survey conducted by the Nevada Policy Research Institute and the Nevada Press Association also found that many favor ...
Plastic bag ban up for LA City Council vote
The Los Angeles City Council is set to vote on whether to ban plastic bags at grocery stores. Councilman Jose Huizar (HWEE'-zahr) says the ban, if adopted Wednesday, would go a long way in keeping single-use plastic bags out of landfills rivers and oceans. The city's program would be modeled ...
Memorial Day start for WWII show at Gratiot museum
Memorial Day marks the opening of a World War II exhibition at the Gratiot County Historical Museum. The museum is located in Ithaca in the central Lower Peninsula, about 40 miles north of Lansing. It's operated by the Gratiot County Historical & Genealogical Society. The Morning Sun of Mount Pleasant ...
NC Senate head to push plan for education changes
A top North Carolina politician is taking a personal role in a Republican education package to change public schools. Senate leader Phil Berger is expected to explain the legislation Wednesday to the first legislative committee taking it up. The Rockingham County Republican's bill would eliminate teacher employment protections based on ...
South Carolina AG promotes Children's Advocacy Day
South Carolina's top prosecutor is holding an event which he hopes will promote the prevention of child abuse. Attorney General Alan Wilson is giving the keynote address on Wednesday at the first ever "Children's Advocacy Day" at the Statehouse. The day also includes presentations from several state lawmakers and Veronica ...
Indian state OKs shooting tiger poachers on sight
A western Indian state has declared war on animal poaching by sanctioning its forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks against tigers, elephants and other wildlife. The government in Maharashtra says injuring or killing suspected poachers while policing animal reserves will not be ...
APNewsBreak: Franciscan files tell abuse story
Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out. More than a ...
Susie Wheldon heads to Indy 500 to honor husband
Some days are better than others for Susie Wheldon, and there's rarely any warning what will trigger the emotional roller coaster she's been on since husband Dan Wheldon's fatal crash in last year's IndyCar finale. A familiar coffee shop brings back a flood of memories; a song can make her ...
Tales of lunar rocks through the years
The saga of lunar rock traveling from the first moon landing in 1969 to the Las Vegas Strip in 1987 and back to NASA in 2012 recalls other moon rock stories. Here are a few: — CASINO MAGNATE: If they are authentic, four tiny chips of moon rock given by ...
Turkmen deal boosts Afghan pipeline project
Turkmenistan signed a natural gas deal with Pakistan and India on Wednesday, in a significant boost to the proposed construction of a 1,800-kilometer (1,100-mile) pipeline across Afghanistan. Representatives from India's state-owned Gail Ltd. and Pakistan's privately run Pakistan's Inter State Gas System traveled to Turkmenistan to formalize the deal, which ...
Football star Donald Driver is new 'Dancing' champ
He already has a Super Bowl ring, and now football star Donald Driver can add the "Dancing With the Stars" mirrorball trophy to his awards collection. The Green Bay Packers receiver won the ABC dance show Tuesday after wowing audiences and judges with his kickin' country-themed freestyle routine. He and ...
Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
It's been a long, strange trip for what appears to be several tiny chips of lunar rock that found their way into a casino mogul's hands after being collected by the first men on the moon. If they're real, they were plucked from the lunar surface by Neil Armstrong and ...
List of 25 sounds saved by Library of Congress
Here's a listing of the 2011 inductees to the National Recording Registry in chronological order: 1. Edison Talking Doll cylinder (1888) 2. "Come Down Ma Evenin' Star," Lillian Russell (1912) 3. "Ten Cents a Dance," Ruth Etting (1930) 4. "Voices from the Days of Slavery," Various speakers (1932-1941 interviews; 2002 ...
Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry
From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summer and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry. Summer's 1977 hit "I Feel Love" is joining the Grateful Dead's famous 1977 Barton Hall concert as sounds ...
Free life skills program available to educators
A life skills program is now available for free to school districts across Tennessee. "The Overcoming Obstacles Life Skills Program" is designed to help educators teach communication, decision making and goal setting skills for middle and high school students. It was developed and administered by the nonprofit Community for Education ...
APNewsBreak: Franciscan files tell abuse story
Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out. More than a ...
Australia: No deal was made in Indonesia drug case
Australia denied Wednesday that it had agreed to treat young Indonesian people smugglers more leniently in return for Indonesia reducing the prison sentence of a high-profile Australian drug trafficker. But Foreign Minister Bob Carr conceded that Indonesians saw a link between the treatment of Australian Schapelle Corby and young Indonesians ...
Sheriff: Suspect linked by DNA to missing CA teen
Police are intensifying their search for a Northern California teen missing for more than two months after arresting a man on suspicion of her murder and kidnapping. Since 15-year-old Sierra LaMar disappeared on March 16, volunteers and authorities have searched fields, open spaces and reservoirs near Morgan Hill, a semi-rural ...
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