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    May 17, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Hofstra student, captor killed in home invasion near university

    NEW YORK -- A Hofstra University student being held hostage during a home invasion was shot dead and her captor was also killed as police arrived at the scene of the break-in early Friday, just two days before commencement ceremonies at the college on Long Island.
    NEW YORK -- A Hofstra University student being held hostage during a home invasion was shot dead and her captor was also killed as police arrived at the scene of the break-in early Friday, just two days before commencement ceremonies at the college on...

    Tags: Nassau County Police, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Murder, Students

    2. May 3, 2013 | Allentown Morning Call

  2. Nazareth grad wins $10,000 Fox News College Challenge

    TV Watchers
    Nazareth High School graduate Julia Skrobak will appear on "Fox and Friends" at 8:20 a.m. Friday, along with two other students, as winners of the 2013 "Fox News Channel College Challenge." The three women, who currently are all students at......
    3. May 3, 2013 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  3. Emmaus grad competes Monday on 'Jeopardy'

    An Emmaus High School graduate will be one of 15 competitors on "Jeopardy! College Champions," which begins Monday. Laura Rigge, 20, will compete against 14 others for $100,000 and the chance to compete in the "Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions" in the...

    Tags: Financial Aid, Jeopardy!, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Fox News Channel (tv network)

    4. May 2, 2013 |Story| SFL

  4. Crime writer Connelly to talk at Museum of Art

    Michael Connelly's novels about LAPD detective Harry Bosch have made him one of the top contemporary mystery writers, and a staple of the best-sellers list. More than 20 years after Connelly's 1992 award-wining debut "The Black Echo," he is still discovering new layers to this now iconic character. His plots, too, are increasingly complex and believable, as he showed in his latest novel, "The Black Box." Connelly has written 25 novels, 19 of them about Bosch.
    Michael Connelly's novels about LAPD detective Harry Bosch have made him one of the top contemporary mystery writers, and a staple of the best-sellers list. More than 20 years after Connelly's 1992 award-wining debut "The Black Echo," he is still...

    Tags: Michael Connelly, Colleges and Universities, Murder, Broward County, Fort Lauderdale

    5. Apr 30, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel

    Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....

    Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Colleges and Universities, IBM, Queens (New York City), University of Michigan

    6. Apr 12, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. Remember when nostalgia died?

    I cannot be the only one who gets a little jolt anytime he encounters someone waxing nostalgic over the 1980s or even the 1990s. We just lived the '80s and '90s, like, a moment ago, didn't we? They seem so recent that many of us are working harder at...

    Tags: Fiction, Colleges and Universities, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Radio

    7. Feb 27, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  7. Harford Teacher of the Year finalists named

    The top five finalists for the 2013 Harford County Teacher of the Year Award were announced by Harford County Public Schools Monday: Tara N. Buecker, Jarrettsville Elementary School physical education/health teacher; J. Laura Childs, Edgewood High...

    Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Havre de Grace, Justice System

    8. Feb 17, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant

  8. COURANT/FRONTLINE INVESTIGATION: Raising Adam Lanza

    Shortly after her move from New Hampshire to Newtown in 1998, Nancy Lanza had good news about her troubled son.
    The Hartford Courant
    Shortly after her move from New Hampshire to Newtown in 1998, Nancy Lanza had good news about her troubled son. "Adam is doing well here, and seems to be enjoying the new school," Lanza wrote to a friend back in Kingston, N.H., in a Feb. 9, 1999, email....

    Tags: Gaming, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Home Improvement, Lima (Peru), General Electric Company

    9. Dec 15, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  9. Adam Lanza: A 'Quiet, Odd' Loner Living On The Fringes

    He was a loner, a 20-year-old whom Newtown High School classmates remembered as a skinny, shaggy-haired boy "who never really talked at all" and who stayed tight to the corridor walls when he walked, often clutching his laptop.
    The Hartford Courant
    He was a loner, a 20-year-old whom Newtown High School classmates remembered as a skinny, shaggy-haired boy "who never really talked at all" and who stayed tight to the corridor walls when he walked, often clutching his laptop. There was a common...

    Tags: Asperger Syndrome, Lima (Peru), Adam Lanza, Chicago Tribune, Autism

    10. Feb 4, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. College students from Laurel named to dean's list and graduate

    Benjamin Glass, of Laurel, class of 2013, was named to the dean's list for the fall semester at Tufts University, in Medford, Mass. Amanda Morgan, of Laurel, was named to the dean's list for the fall semester at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, N.Y....

    Tags: Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Science, Psychology

    11. Dec 14, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  11. Gunman Kills 26 At Sandy Hook School In Newtown

    Hartford Courant
    A gunman with a mind for destruction turned the idyllic Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown into a scene of horrific chaos and carnage Friday morning, killing 20 children and six adults, including the school's principal, in the worst shooting at a...

    Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Colleges and Universities, Fairfield County

    12. Dec 15, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  12. Newtown Families Grieve As Medical Examiner Works To Identify Victims In Sandy Hook School Shooting

      The victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings each had between three and 11 wounds, Chief State Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver III said Saturday afternoon. "This is a very devastating set of injuries," Carver said at a press...

    Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, ABC (tv network), Executive Branch, Adam Lanza, John Boehner

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