The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define — for better or worse — Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office. Updated 59 minutes ago
The incoming mayor of Los Angeles was able to defeat a fellow Democrat by depicting her as a pawn of utility union bosses in a city long friendly to labor, an outcome expected to echo beyond California as unions nationwide face threats to their clout.
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In a brutal daylight attack which raised fears that terrorism had returned to London, two men with butcher knives hacked another man to death near a military barracks Wednesday before police wounded them in a shootout.
An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived.
Updated May. 17, 2013
St. Paul Fire Marshal Steve Zaccard said students from two fourth grade classes at Peter Hobart Elementary School in St. Louis Park were on a field trip in Lilydale Regional Park hunting fossils when the hillside gave way, sending the children tumbling about 30 feet.
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Nicknamed `The Wall,' 8-year-old Kyle Davis loved soccer and going to Monster Truck exhibitions at the fairgrounds with his grandfather. JaNae Hornsby, 9, loved to draw, sing, and be a big sister and cousin to her younger relatives.
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