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Feds propose overhaul for child care centers
Federal health officials proposed Thursday to overhaul 500,000 child care centers across the country, beefing up safety standards including background and fingerprint checks for employees and requiring states to better monitor the facilities. Roughly 1.6 million U.S. children attend child care centers on subsidies — paid in the form of ...
Dubuque students may miss planned trip to New York
Dozens of students, parents and staff from a Dubuque high school are unsure what to do after a Cedar Rapids travel agency closed without making arrangements for a planned trip to New York despite about $30,000 in advance payments. The Telegraph Herald reported Thursday (http://bit.ly/10StwKM ) that an attorney representing ...
2nd-grader calls 911 after waking in empty school
A central Indiana school district is reviewing how a sleeping second-grader could have been left alone in a room for hours after school had let out. Joyce Larry said her 8-year-old son, Damarion, was left alone in a room Tuesday afternoon at Valley Grove Elementary School in Anderson after he ...
Julianne Moore: 'bad Mom' role is her antithesis
Julianne Moore sometimes identifies with the characters she plays but when it came to playing a bad mother in "What Maisie Knew," she couldn't relate. In the recently released film, Moore portrays a rock-star mom going through a bitter divorce who's having trouble connecting to her 6-year-old daughter, Maisie. The ...
W.Va. child abuse cases rising after brief decline
West Virginia child-welfare officials say the number of active abuse and neglect cases has been climbing in the past two years, but they're still handling fewer than they were five years ago. The state Department of Health and Human Resources says its workers took action in 1,569 cases in March ...
Cops: Pa. pupil caught cheating threatened harm
Police say a sixth-grader has been suspended from his suburban Pittsburgh Catholic school for the rest of the year after he allegedly threatened to shoot himself and his classmates after he was caught cheating on a test. But McCandless Township police tell WPXI-TV (http://bit.ly/17vUIlh) they're not happy that officials at ...
Stax's past influences future musicians in Memphis
One by one the teenage singers practice the opening lines to "Boogie Wonderland," a disco-funk hit from an era before they were born, as dancers work on hip-swinging moves that require perfect choreography. In another room, young musicians play the same song over and over on guitar, piano and drums, ...
NC lawmakers nearing 'crossover' deadline
The North Carolina General Assembly worked Wednesday through dozens of bills — both commonplace and contentious legislation — before a self-imposed cutoff designed to whittle down the topics they can consider through 2014. The House worked until just after 11:30 p.m. as lawmakers worked toward what's called the crossover deadline. ...
Religion news in brief
Scottish cardinal to atone for sexual misconduct VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has ordered a disgraced Scottish cardinal to leave Scotland for several months to pray and atone for sexual misconduct, issuing a rare public sanction against a "prince of the church" and the first such punishment meted out ...
Body of missing Calif. 9-year-old found
Authorities found the body on Wednesday of an autistic Northern California 9-year-old who went missing from her family's vacation home, ending an exhaustive, emotional search for the girl. A dive team found Mikaela Lynch in a muddy creek near the home in Clearlake, Clearlake Police Chief Craig Clausen said. He ...
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