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CHICAGO (AP) — As the new school year swings into gear, some students carry heavier worries than keeping up with homework: Demand has been growing steadily for children's books that address traumatic events such as school shootings. Sales of books for young readers on violence, grief and emotions have increased for nine straight years, with [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Hollywood sign is getting a makeover befitting its status as a Tinseltown icon. After a pressure-wash and some rust removal, workers this week began using 250 gallons of primer and white paint to spruce up the sign ahead of its centennial next year. The entire renovation effort is expected to [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In California's capital, massive tent encampments have risen along the American River and highway overpasses have become havens for homeless people, whose numbers have jumped a staggering nearly 70 percent over two years. Among the 9,300 without a home is Eric Santos, who lost his job at a brewery and was [...]
In her second-grade classroom outside Seattle, Fatima Nuñez Ardon often tells her students stories about everyday people realizing their dreams. One day, for example, she talked about Salvadoran American NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio and his journey to the International Space Station. Another day, she told them her own life story — how she, an El [...]
Daniel Kelly and his wife bought a 1977 doublewide mobile home in May for about $83,000 at Tropicana Sands, a community for people 55 and older in Fort Myers, Fla., but he ran into roadblocks when he tried to insure it. Managers at Tropicana Sands told him he likely wouldn't be able to find a [...]
Those who have an in-home clothes washer and dryer often take it for granted. However, even in larger homes, we haven't had the convenience all that long. Indoor plumbing and power made electric washers and tumble dryers possible, and by 1937 they appeared on the market. Most people plopped these appliances in rooms that already [...]
The phone call from her son's school was alarming. The assistant principal told her to come to the school immediately, but when Lisa Manwell arrived at Pioneer Middle School in Plymouth, Mich., her son wasn't sick or injured. He was sitting calmly in the principal's office. John, who has ADHD and finds it soothing to [...]
KIRTLAND, N.M. (AP) — The clamor of second graders breaking away from lessons to form lunch lines has gotten quieter in a rural New Mexico community, where families losing coal jobs have been forced to pack up and leave in search of work. At Judy Nelson Elementary, 1 in 4 students have left in an [...]
ATLANTA, Ill. — This Thanksgiving, your pumpkin pie might have a lower carbon footprint. On the central Illinois farms that supply most of the world's canned pumpkin, farmers are adopting regenerative techniques designed to reduce emissions, attract natural pollinators such as bees and butterflies and improve the health of the soil. The effort is backed [...]
The value of an internship is unmistakable. It teaches marketable skills, builds professional networks and helps students test-drive careers, but the benefits are not available to all. Close to half of all internships are unpaid, putting them out of reach for students who need wages to keep up with their bills, even if the work [...]