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Pasadena students seek to halt district spending on companies that sell, make guns
A student club at Pasadena High School has started a petition calling on school district officials to halt public spending on products from companies that manufacture or sell guns. Tenth-graders Roxana Honowitz and Mia Hepner, leaders of the school&...Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation, Students, Personal Weapon Control
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In Theory: Finding peace after a difficult year
Q: Many consider this to be the season of peace and hope. Reflecting on 2012, what has given you peace? What are your hopes for the coming year? Peace and hope are rather difficult concepts to ponder in light of this past week's horrific events at the...Tags: Gun Control, Human Interest, Values, Interior Policy, Tra Thomas
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Loyola's Crane, Towson High's Skinner named Unsung Hero Award winners
The One Love Foundation announced Thursday that North Carolina’s Zoe Skinner (Towson High) and Loyola’s Jason Crane (Chesapeake-Anne Arundel) have been selected as the 2013 Yeardley Reynolds Love Unsung Hero Award winners. Now in its third...
Tags: Students, Hospitals and Clinics, North Carolina Tar Heels, College Sports, Loyola Greyhounds
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Can Fort Lauderdale compel background checks at gun show?
A showdown is brewing between Fort Lauderdale and the Ohio-based company that has long held gun shows at the city-owned War Memorial Auditorium. The city has clamped down on the arms-bazaar excesses of the show, and a lawyer for Suncoast Gun Shows say...Tags: Public Officials, National Rifle Association of America, Father's Day, Fort Lauderdale, Government
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Letters to the editor: Oklahoma tornado, public school chiefs, and assault rifles
Once again, teachers protected their students. It happened at Sandy Hook Elementary in December, and it happened in Monroe, Okla., this week. Stories are being reported of teachers placing their bodies over their students, and as one child said, "Our...Tags: Students, Salt, NAACP, Firearms, Health Insurance Cost
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Somerset Borough police welcomed in area schools
Staff writer, @DA_AmberRA police officer is now monitoring the halls of the Somerset Area School District. Somerset Borough police Chief Randy Cox told council members during Monday’s meeting that the officer-in-school program is being implemented successfully. The... -
Sandy Hook parents help Illinois high-capacity magazine ban
— Grieving parents of children killed at a Connecticut elementary school gave haunting testimony about their lost sons Monday as they tried to persuade the Illinois Senate to approve a ban on the sale of high-capacity gun magazines in Illinois....
Tags: Gun Control, National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Tom Cross
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Coats defends his vote on guns
Although polls nationwide and in Indiana show overwhelming support for tightening background checks for gun purchases,Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana's Republican senior senator, voted "no." He says most constituents who contacted him wanted him to do just that....
Tags: Gun Control, Joe Manchin III, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy
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Turmoil at Florida Atlantic
FAU has received attention for several recent controversies, including: January: James Tracy, an associate communications professor, questions in his private blog whether the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in Connecticut happened as reported, or...Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights, Sports
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More guns used in suicides than homicides
When people think of gun violence, they typically think of a masked robber or a disturbed young man with an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. In truth, the most common victim of fatal gun violence is a distraught man who, alone in a...
Tags: Gun Control, Vehicles, Interior Policy, Firearms, Weaponry
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School taxes likely going up 2.35 percent in Quakertown
The Quakertown Community School Board adopted a proposed final budget for 2013-14 that raises taxes 2.35 percent. Under the $95.6 million spending plan, the average taxpayer would pay $87 more. Directors Paul Stepanoff and Zane Stauffer voted no. "We...Tags: Science and Technology, Budgets and Budgeting, High Schools, Schools, Elections
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Album review: George Strait's reflective 'Love Is Everything'
Last fall, George Strait revealed that he plans to retire from the road following his so-called Cowboy Rides Away Tour, which concludes its 2013 leg with a sold-out gig June 1 at San Antonio's 72,000-capacity Alamodome. (The Texas native is to resume...Tags: CBS Corp., Entertainment, Music, New York City
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