Florida congressman Cliff Stearns asks Nancy Pelosi for football break - Yahoo News

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Thursday's championship football game between No. 2 Florida and No. 1 Oklahoma is obviously a big game, but big enough to shut down Congress? Rep. Cliff Stearns hopes so. Stearns, a Republican from Ocala, wrote to U.S. House ...

Former Home-School chief held for trial - Philadelphia Daily News

Down on his luck, Greg Wade turned to a quick source of cash, authorities allege - money set aside to improve the lives of Philadelphia's public-school children. Wade, now the disgraced former Home and School Council president, yesterday was ordered ...

Shooting Drug-Related, Police Say; School Lockout Lifted - Tampa Bay Online

ST. PETERSBURG - Police believe the morning shooting that left a man injured when three suspects tried to steal his car and a subsequent police standoff was drug-related. The shooting and attempted car theft at about 7 a.m. behind a house at 4340 ...

School Bus Stop Moved Away From Sexual Predator - Denver Channel

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A school bus stop is going to be moved because it is near the home of a sexually violent predator, according to KRDO-TV , in Colorado Springs. The superintendent of Falcon School District 49 met with the mother of two ...

Students marvel at Oakland's new School for the Arts - Inside Bay Area

FORGET the sound-proof recording studio, the black box theater, and the large classroom windows overlooking the city's Uptown area. When 16-year-old Kwame Grant saw the inside of his new school for the first time Tuesday, he was captivated by the ...