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Many driver's ed cars have poor crash ratings
A west suburban school district puts its driver's education students in a fleet of Chevy Cobalts, small cars that earn poor side-crash ratings. A Will County district teaches fledging drivers in cars that are more than a decade old. And some north...Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Manufacturing and Engineering, Automotive Equipment, Illinois Department of Transportation, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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Prosecution: Irvine 11 violated ambassador's right to free speech
SANTA ANA — Ten Muslim college students censored the Israeli ambassador to the United States when he tried to give an address atUC Irvine, a prosecutor argued in closing statements of the so-called Irvine 11 trial on Monday.
Orange County Deputy...Tags: Trials, Demonstration, Freedom of the Press, Lawyers, Prosecution
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Mailbag: Prosecution overzealous in 'Irvine 11' case
Historically, county district attorneys have demurred from pursuing legal action against University of California students in cases of alleged minor crimes and misdemeanors when these incidents occur on university property. Instead, they have...Tags: Trials, Civil Rights, Freedom of the Press, Misdemeanors, Civil Unrest
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Challenge Mountain faces sexual harassment allegations
CHARLEVOIX — The former executive director at one of Charlevoix County’s most beloved nonprofit organizations reported repetitive workplace sexual harassment and a slew of other allegations in a lawsuit filed this year, including an alleged...Tags: Arbitration, Trials, Litigation, Sexual Assault, Minority Groups
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McManus: Technology that protects protesters
Early this year, as street protests began spreading across the Arab world, a young Internet expert from Germany, Katrin Verclas, asked Egyptian democracy activists what kind of technology they needed most. More laptop computers? Better access to the Web?...Tags: Demonstration, Activism, U.S. Department of State, Iran, Egypt
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Keeping track of Chicago lobbyists at City Hall
During his first few months in office, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's tech team has put a lot of city data online.
They’ve made it easier to get at, but not necessarily easier to interpret. The data sets can be downloaded and sorted, but they lack context....Tags: Facebook, Rahm Emanuel, Arts and Culture, Ethics, Values
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Teacher grievance tossed by East Jordan school leaders
EAST JORDAN — Former elementary art teacher Paula Vollbach filed a grievance against her former employer, but school officials shut down her complaint. Vollbach, 50, of East Jordan, lost her job in June in a round of layoffs made by East Jordan...Tags: Justice and Rights, Crimes, Civil Rights, U.S. Postal Service, Lawyers
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Islamic Center Near Ground Zero Opens its Doors
The developer of an Islamic cultural center that opened Wednesday evening near the site of the terrorist attacks that leveled the World Trade Center says the biggest error on the project was not involving the families of 9/11 victims from the start....Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Freedom of the Press, Activism, Judaism, Terrorism
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Kenneth Reiner dies at 95; industrialist built landmark Silvertop home
Kenneth Reiner made a fortune in Los Angeles in the 1940s and '50s designing and manufacturing two ingenious products: self-locking aircraft nuts and spring-loaded ladies' hair clips.
He brought the same inventiveness to a personal project he launched in...Tags: Music Theater, World War II (1939-1945), Joint Ventures, New Products, Architecture
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Gatto's bill would tap roads for renewable energy
A bill by Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Silver Lake) would take the power of the road for renewable energy.
The bill, one of many the Gov. Jerry Brown is wading through in the wake of the legislative recess, would require the California Energy Commission...Tags: Alternative Energy, Science, Physiology, Jerry Brown, Executive Branch
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Muslim Students Found Guilty in "Irvine 11" Case
KTLA NewsSANTA ANA, Calif. -- Ten Muslim students have been found guilty in the so-called Irvine 11 case. The students were convicted of illegally conspiring to disrupt and disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren last year at UC Irvine. Both...Tags: Trials, Students, Teaching and Learning, Lawyers, KTLA
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10 of 'Irvine 11' guilty
SANTA ANA — An Orange County Superior Court jury on Friday convicted 10 of the so-called Irvine 11 on two misdemeanor charges to conspire and then disrupt a February 2010 speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at UC Irvine.
Charges against...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Students, Teaching and Learning, Lawyers, Prosecution
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