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Push for action to curtail restraining students

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tens of thousands of students, most of them disabled, are strapped down or physically restrained in school, and disability advocates hope that a new Education Department report detailing the practice of "seclusion and restraint" will spur federal action to end it....
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Push for action to curtail restraining students

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tens of thousands of students, most of them disabled, are strapped down or physically restrained in school, and disability advocates hope that a new Education Department report detailing the practice of "seclusion and restraint" will spur federal action to end it....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Push for action to curtail restraining students

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tens of thousands of students, most of them disabled, are strapped down or physically restrained in school, and disability advocates hope that a new Education Department report detailing the practice of "seclusion and restraint" will spur federal action to end it....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Cops in Pa. shooting had trained for campus gunman

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A gunman who shot to death a worker and wounded six others at psychiatric hospital at the University of Pittsburgh this week was himself killed by campus police who had trained for a Virginia Tech-style shooting, authorities said....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Murkowski regrets voting with GOP on birth control

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she saw it coming, even before the public scolding last weekend at Alaska's Iditarod dog sled race. Siding with Republican leaders on a contentious contraceptives vote was a mistake....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Union leaders seek to mend divisions over pipeline

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unions may be united in working to re-elect President Barack Obama, but their leaders also are trying to repair bitter divisions over his rejection of an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Union leaders seek to mend divisions over pipeline

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unions may be united in working to re-elect President Barack Obama, but their leaders also are trying to repair bitter divisions over his rejection of an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Artist Heizer's big rock rolls to Calif. museum

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A big rock that has been lumbering across Southern California for the past week and a half arrived at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art before dawn Saturday, cheered on by what has become an audience of tens of thousands....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Artist Heizer's big rock rolls to Calif. museum

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A big rock that has been lumbering across Southern California for the past week and a half arrived at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art before dawn Saturday, cheered on by what has become an audience of tens of thousands....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Activists seek to curtail restraining students

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tens of thousands of students, most of them disabled, are strapped down or physically restrained in school, and disability advocates hope that a new Education Department report detailing the practice of "seclusion and restraint" will spur federal action to end it....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

US preparing to restart military aid to Yemen

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon is planning to restart programs that would fund military training and equipment in Yemen, nearly a year after they were shut down because of escalating chaos in the embattled country....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

US officials: Syrian regime holding under fire

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top U.S. officials all the way up to President Barack Obama are predicting the Syrian regime's days are numbered, but recent U.S. intelligence reports suggest that the Syrian leader commands a formidable army that is unlikely to turn on him, an inner circle that has stayed loyal and a Syrian elite that still supports his rule....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Missing for weeks, hiker found alive in NM forest

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Snuggling in a blue sleeping bag, Margaret Page and her cat survived 3 1/2 weeks in a rugged New Mexico national forest, even though temperatures dropped below freezing nearly every night....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Missing for weeks, hiker found alive in NM forest

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Snuggling in a blue sleeping bag, Margaret Page and her cat survived 3 1/2 weeks in a rugged New Mexico national forest, even though temperatures dropped below freezing nearly every night....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama pushes Congress to help states hire teachers

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama wants Congress to help states rehire teachers and act on a key part of last year's jobs bill. He says the last thing the U.S. needs is to have fewer teachers in our schools....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama honors veterans during Memorial Day weekend

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is paying tribute to veterans during Memorial Day weekend, honoring those willing to sacrifice their lives for their country....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Pa. woman loses 2 children to fatal shootings

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mary Schaab's only daughter was fatally shot 17 months ago, so she understood the horror and pain of losing a child, even before a Pennsylvania state trooper knocked at her door late Thursday to tell her the same thing had happened again - this time to her son....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Pa. woman loses 2 children to fatal shootings

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mary Schaab's only daughter was fatally shot 17 months ago, so she understood the horror and pain of losing a child, even before a Pennsylvania state trooper knocked at her door late Thursday to tell her the same thing had happened again - this time to her son....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Pa. woman loses 2 children to fatal shootings

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mary Schaab's only daughter was fatally shot 17 months ago, so she understood the horror and pain of losing a child, even before a Pennsylvania state trooper knocked at her door late Thursday to tell her the same thing had happened again - this time to her son....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Pa. woman loses 2 children to fatal shootings

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:40
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mary Schaab's only daughter was fatally shot 17 months ago, so she understood the horror and pain of losing a child, even before a Pennsylvania state trooper knocked at her door late Thursday to tell her the same thing had happened again - this time to her son....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US