07-02-2024  12:03 am   •   PDX and SEA Weather

USA News

Program will use tax dollars to send children to private and parochial schools

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A Baton Rouge judge refused Tuesday to prevent the start of a statewide voucher program that will use tax dollars to send children to private and parochial schools.


READ MORE

Many plots were handled by informants, lacked credibility or were not pursued beyond discussion

The NYPD is regularly held up as one of the most sophisticated and significant counterterrorism operations in the country. As evidence of the NYPD's excellence, the department, its allies and the media have repeatedly said the department has thwarted or helped thwart 14 terrorist plots against New York since Sept 11.


READ MORE

For homeowners seeking compensation, it's crucial how the servicer messed up

Can you put a price on the damage caused by a wrongful foreclosure? Banking regulators have. And it's $125,000. Or $60,000. Or $15,000. Or… it's unclear.


READ MORE

FBI, Justice Department Reviewing Forensic Evidence in Thousands of Cases Department did not estimate how long it will take or how many cases will be reviewed

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI and Justice Department are undertaking a broad review of thousands of criminal cases to see if any defendants were wrongly convicted based on faulty forensics, the department said Wednesday.


READ MORE

Boomers spend $2.5 trillion per year and there is not enough to serve them or their elderly parents

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Everyone hears about the huge baby boom generation—78 million of them in the United States with the oldest of the group now on Social Security.


READ MORE

Many classrooms in Highland Park lack books and other supplies

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan's governor, education chief and the emergency manager for the financially troubled Highland Park school district were named in a civil lawsuit Thursday that claims students in the small, urban district near Detroit have been denied proper reading skills.

READ MORE

Mayor Bloomberg had publicly considered ending the tradition of reading victims' names

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Politicians will be barred from speaking at this year's commemoration ceremony on the anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks, according to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.


READ MORE

DOJ says Black and Hispanic borrowers got more costly subprime loans and higher fees

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $175 million to settle allegations that it discriminated against minority borrowers, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

READ MORE

E-mails between Zimmerman and ousted Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee will be released as well

(CNN) -- Florida's state attorney released FBI reports Thursday that may shed light on whether race played a role the night George Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed teen.


READ MORE

President appeared in pre-taped video before Vice President Joe Biden spoke

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign insisted a "scheduling conflict" is behind the president's decision to skip this year's NAACP convention.


READ MORE

Recently Published by The Skanner News

  • Default
  • Title
  • Date
  • Random