For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation’s third-largest city.
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A missile strike killed al Qaida’s number two leader in Yemen on Monday. Officials could not confirm if the U.S. was involved.
Construction at the World Trade Center site is still plugging along 11 years after the 9/11 attacks and officials say they are working to open the museum as soon as possible.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Monday said Chicago teachers are turning their backs on thousands of students and that President Barack Obama is rooting for the striking educators.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas branch of the Reform Party is at odds with the national party over who should appear on the state’s ballot as its presidential nominee. Kansas Reform Party officials favor Montana pastor Chuck Baldwin and submitted his name in June. But the party’s national convention last month chose Andre Barnett, a business owner, model and military veteran from New York State. On Monday, the national organization formally objected to a decision by the Kansas secretary of state’s office to list Baldwin as the Reform Party nominee. The State Objections Board expects to decide the issue later…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) An estimated $300,000 worth of high-grade marijuana has been recovered from a home in southeast Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that the seizure happened last month after a real estate agent used a cellphone to photograph the drugs. After seeing the pictures on her real estate agent’s phone, the owner of the home contacted police Aug. 30. Sgt. Bruce Watts said Saturday that the woman told officers that her husband had given a key to the new tenant before the scheduled Sept. 1 move-in date. A search of the home yielded 120 pounds of marijuana that had…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) The district attorney for Kansas’ most populous county says government officials are getting in trouble too often for failing to follow the state’s open meeting and public record laws. That’s why Johnson county District Attorney Steve Howe plans to ask government officials to take a refresher course on the laws. The Kansas City Star reported that Howe found last week that the city of Mission violated the state open meetings law. The problem there was the mayor purchased a building without council approval. The city of Gardner also ran afoul of the open meeting law. Now, Howe…
STOCKTON, Kan. (AP) Two fellow north-central Kansas nursing home residents have turned 100 on the same day. The Hays Daily News reported that Neva Marshall and Grace Turnbull met in the dining room of Solomon Valley Manor in Stockton in March of 2008. They soon learned they shared a birthday, and they marked the occasion Sunday with parties. Before World War I even began, Marshall was born in Rooks County, and Turnbull, in Phillips County. They have lived to see nearly half of the 44 U.S. presidents in office. Marshall was a teacher. All along the way, they have kept…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Museum of History is hosting a new exhibit featuring presidents and presidential elections. “Hail to the Chief” opens Friday and runs until Feb. 24 at the Topeka museum. The Kansas Historical Society says the exhibit marks the 2012 presidential election by looking back at national campaigns throughout history. Items on display include campaign materials, banners and personal items as well as souvenirs of candidates’ visits to Kansas. Prominently featured are Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The U.S. Department of Education has named a half-dozen schools in Kansas as National Blue Ribbon Schools for their efforts to improve student achievement. One elementary school Marshall Elementary in Eureka is among the 2012 honorees. The others are Basehor-Linwood High School; Blue Valley High School in Stilwell; Garden City High School; Goddard High School; and St. Thomas Aquinas High School, a private, Roman Catholic school in Overland Park. Blue Ribbon schools are honored as high-performing schools based on state assessment scores, or as exemplary improving schools that have shown progress in helping disadvantaged students improve on…