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Huge Oklahoma tornado, on ground 40 minutes, smashes schools, homes
This post has been updated, as indicated below.A mile-wide tornado slammed into Oklahoma on Monday afternoon, leveling neighborhoods, starting fires and causing, as one storm chaser put it, "total destruction." [Update, 5:29 p.m. May 20: Oklahoma authorities said at least 37 people were killed in...Tags: Tornadoes, Natural Disasters, National Weather Service, Briarwood
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Are you ready to lead?
I had an opportunity last week to join more than 600 business and community leaders from our region for the 2013 Chick-fil-A Leadercast. Our local group joined more than 120,000 worldwide participants at more than 750 locations for the daylong program...
Tags: Mike Krzyzewski, Condoleezza Rice, Business, Sanya Richards-Ross
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CPS approves largest school closure in Chicago's history
Tribune reportersMonths of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings....Tags: Garfield Park, University of Chicago, Ameya Pawar, Jesse Owens, Family
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BC-AP Limited Digest
Member Choice Limited For editorial or technical questions concerning AP Member Choice Limited, contact customersupport(at)ap.org or call 877-836-9477. TOP STORIES OBAMA-NATIONAL SECURITY WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama moves to reduce the...Tags: Loans, Assault, Crime, Law and Justice, David Cameron, Social Issues
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AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
With warnings about continued threats to US, Obama seeks to open secretive terror policies WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid lingering concerns about his national security policies, President Barack Obama is outlining measures to clarify the deadly use of...Tags: Francois Hollande, David Cameron, Gays and Lesbians, Boy Scouts of America, Religion and Belief
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Letters to the Editor for May 23
Supports prayer at graduation As the graduation of the Lincoln County High School Class of 2013 draws near, I would like to say that I support having prayer at the exercise. I have heard a great deal concerning the controversy. I don't think that...
Tags: Teachers, Freedom of the Press, Substance Abuse, Education, Politics
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Hearing set in lawsuits over Chicago Public Schools closings
Tribune reporterA day after the controversial Chicago Board of Education vote to shut down 50 schools, a federal judge today scheduled a four-day hearing in July to decide whether to halt the closures. The hearing before U.S. District Judge John Lee is likely to include...Tags: Trials, Chicago Public Schools, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Court Preliminary
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Garcetti elected mayor of Los Angeles after calling opponent a pawn of labor bosses
AP Political WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) — The incoming mayor of Los Angeles was able to defeat a fellow Democrat by depicting her as a pawn of utility union bosses in a city long friendly to labor, an outcome expected to echo beyond California as unions nationwide face...Tags: Judaism, Antonio Villaraigosa, Local Elections, Voting, Local Government
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Mandating birth-control benefits unlawful, appeals court told
Tribune reporterLawyers for two Roman Catholic-owned companies in Illinois and Indiana argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday that a law forcing them to include birth control in their employees' benefits would violate their First Amendment rights....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Lobbying, Civil Rights, Religion and Belief, Punishment
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New Pew study finds rise in Muslim and Hindu immigrants to the U.S.
A new Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life study of immigration data found a rise in the numbers of Muslims and Hindus coming to the United States legally, while undocumented immigrants are overwhelmingly Christian: The study...
Tags: Islam, Hinduism, Migration, Immigration, Politics
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Geza Vermes dies at 88; scholar wrote about Dead Sea Scrolls
Geza Vermes was a graduate student in Belgium in the late 1940s when he was captivated by news sweeping the globe about a remarkable discovery in the desert east of Jerusalem. He quickly switched gears, penning his doctoral thesis on the Dead Sea Scrolls,...
Tags: Anglicanism, Christianity, Judaism, Arts and Culture, Canterbury
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CPS documents raise questions about closings
Making the case to close Ericson Academy on the West Side, Chicago Public Schools officials stressed that it would cost $9.6 million to fix the 51-year-old building. What they didn't point out in materials provided to parents was that they planned to...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, Students, Budgets and Budgeting, Wicker Park
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