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    May 19, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. More poor live in suburbs than in urban areas, research shows

    Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis.
    Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in...

    Tags: Social Issues, University of Chicago, Social Services, Brookings Institution, Poverty

    2. May 20, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Botched robbery leads to N.Y. student's death -- by police

    It wasn't like the movies. Seven of the police officer's bullets hit the robber. An eighth hit a hostage, Andrea Rebello. Both were killed, and a standoff was over. The repercussions, however, had just begun. The death of the 21-year-old Hofstra...

    Tags: Firearms, Government, Health and Safety at School, Shootings, Theft

    3. May 17, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 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: Murder, New York City, Nassau County, Rentals, Teaching and Learning

    4. May 3, 2013 | Allentown Morning Call

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

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    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......
    5. May 3, 2013 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  5. 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, ABC (tv network), Jeopardy!, New York City, Emmaus

    6. May 2, 2013 |Story| SFL

  6. 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: Arts and Culture, Palm Beach Gardens, Miami Dade College, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Murder

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

  7. 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: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IBM, University of California, Los Angeles, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Brooklyn (New York City)

    8. Apr 12, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. 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: Satellite and Cable Service, Television, The Cosby Show (tv program), DePaul University, Science and Technology

    9. Feb 27, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. 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: Havre de Grace, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Notre Dame of Maryland University, United Way , Science and Technology

    10. Feb 17, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant

  10. 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: Laws, Western Connecticut State University, Health and Medical Professionals, New York City, Danbury

    11. Dec 15, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  11. 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: Laws, Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Quinnipiac University, Adam Lanza

    12. Feb 4, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  12. 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: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Science and Technology, Agricultural Research and Technology, Education, Medical Specialization

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