FRESNO, Calif. – A Merced school district has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of a former sixth-grade student who was asked to remove an anti-abortion T-shirt.
Attorneys for Tiffany Amador say officials at McSwain Union Elementary School called the shirt disruptive when she wore it in April
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CHICAGO – While many who heard Rod Blagojevich’s wiretapped phone conversations may have expected a tidy result in the former Illinois governor’s corruption trial, the notes sent by jurors this week suggest a far murkier outcome. In a message to Judge James B. Zagel, the jury said they have managed to agree on only two
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ALBANY, N.Y. – New York’s Conservative Party is planning a television ad campaign to pressure a New York City utility to use its power to block a proposed mosque near ground zero. The ad states “patriotic Americans” want “real answers” about the Islamic group planning the cultural center in lower Manhattan in a building partly
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EMIGRANT GAP, Calif. – Authorities say two people are dead after a small plane crashed in California near the Sierra Nevada community of Emigrant Gap. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the single engine Piper Cherokee Arrow crashed Friday, but he did not know what time the plane went down. Gregor says the FAA
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Florida Institute of Oceanography says 27 research projects have been selected to receive a total of about $10 million from BP PLC to study the impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The projects were culled from 233 proposals and announced Thursday in St. Petersburg by the institute, which
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MyFoxNY.com Aug. 9, 2010: Steven Slater, a JetBlue flight attendant, was arrested Monday on charges he got into a fight with a passenger and fled by deploying an emergency exit slide at New York’s JFK Airport. Renegade flight attendant Steven Slater might want his job back at JetBlue Airlines, but the company’s top officials are
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NEW YORK – Stocks appear headed for their fourth straight day of losses as investors wait for the latest readings on consumers and how confident they feel about spending. The Commerce Department will release its report on July retail sales before the market opens. Economists are expecting that sales rose 0.5 percent after dropping in
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FLINT, Mich. – The arrest of a suspect in a three-state stabbing spree that left five people dead and 13 others wounded has eased some but not all fears in Flint, where the attacks have changed the way some residents of one of Michigan’s toughest cities view helping others. The Flint stabbings started in May,
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NEW YORK – The lunar calendar that Muslims follow for religious holidays is creating a potential for misunderstandings or worse in a year when American Muslims are already confronting a spike in assaults on their faith and protests against new mosques. Eid al-Fitr, a joyous holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan,
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NEW ORLEANS — Officials could know by early Friday if BP’s broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been sealed for good.
An analysis of tests on the well done Thursday was scheduled to be completed within 24 hours, letting the federal government and BP PLC know if work last month
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