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Entire staff to be replaced at school where 2 teachers arrested

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:43pm MST

The Los Angeles Unified School District is replacing the entire staff of Miramonte Elementary School following the arrest of two teachers on lewd conduct charges last week, Superintendent John Deasy told parents at a meeting Monday night.
Chicago cabbie pleads guilty in terror case

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:19pm MST

A Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver who prosecutors say could be heard on FBI wiretaps discussing a plan to bomb a stadium pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to send money to a Pakistani-based terrorist with alleged ties to al-Qaida.
Sex-ed less effective in red states, study says

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:47pm MST

By Christopher WanjekLiveScience Sex education is failing to reduce adolescent birthrates in conservative states, according to a new study. Perhaps paradoxically, states with a majority conservative population and higher degree of religiosity tend to have higher teen birthrates.
At Yale, True Love Week hopes to challenge Sex Week

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:16pm MST

As Sex Week 2012 unfolds on the Yale University campus boasting about 50 workshops on topics ranging from contraception and sexual harassment to pornography and online dating, a smaller series of events is branding itself as the alternative.
Officials: Powell children had head and neck wounds

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:07pm MST

The two boys of a Utah man suspected in his wife's disappearance, and then of killing himself and his sons in an intentional fire, suffered from head and neck injuries, officials say.
Tucson shooting suspect to remain at Mo. facility

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:41pm MST

A judge ruled Monday that the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that wounded former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will spend four more months at a facility where officials are forcibly medicating him.
Serious potty talk gets boy a dream toilet

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:34pm MST

Some kids ask for Legos, others a train. But Dustin Kruse, 4, of New Berlin, Wis., wanted something extra special this Christmas -- a toilet.
Dog-poop DNA testing raises stench with renters

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:33pm MST

It's a smelly job, but someone has to do it -- DNA-testing dog waste, that is. Pet owners who fail to use the pooper-scooper at five apartment complexes in Sioux Falls, S.D., will no longer be able to make a clean getaway.
Serious potty talk gets boy a dream toilet

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:50pm MST

Some kids ask for Legos, others a train. But Dustin Kruse, 4, of New Berlin, Wis., wanted something extra special this Christmas -- a toilet.
Retirement home bands together to bring WWII stories to life

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:24pm MST

More than 70 years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, many residents of a retirement community in picturesque Hanover, N.H., still remember exactly where they were. They’ll sit down with you, and if you have a minute to spare, they’ll even show you their black and white pictures.
Are SeaWorld's killer whales slaves? Judge weighs case

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:35pm MST

The stars of SeaWorld were the main attraction in federal court as a judge weighed PETA's claim that they are being treated like slaves.
Mo. teen describes killing as amazing, enjoyable

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:27pm MST

A teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl wrote in her journal on the night of the killing that it was an "ahmazing" and "pretty enjoyable" experience.
Junior 'high': Student sells pot brownies to classmates

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:23pm MST

Students at a New York City middle school are facing discipline after an eighth grader allegedly sold marijuana-laced brownies to about 20 fellow pupils. The incident happened at Intermediate School 208 in Bellerose, a suburban section of Queens.
Parents protest at school where 2 teachers arrested

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:58am MST

Frustrated parents gathered early Monday outside Miramonte Elementary School to express their concerns about the cases of two former teacher accused of molesting students at the South LA school.
Could Wash. have done more to protect Powell boys?

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:00am MST

State authorities can expect tough questions about whether more might have been done to protect a missing Utah woman's two children.
Former White House intern Mimi Alford reveals details of Kennedy affair

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:55am MST

Mimi Alford claims she had an 18-month-long affair with President John F. Kennedy when she was a White House intern.
Huge number of dolphin beachings along Cape Cod

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:08am MST

Nearly 130 dolphins have beached themselves on Cape Cod in the last three weeks, with 92 dying in what's become "the single largest stranding" in at least two decades in the Northeast.
School where 2 teachers arrested closing for 2 days

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:03am MST

The superintendent of schools is meeting with worried parents and classes are canceled for two days at a California school where two teachers are suspected of lewd acts with young students.
Ga. court overturns assisted suicide restrictions

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:34am MST

Georgia's top court struck down a state law that restricted assisted suicides, siding on Monday with four members of a suicide group who said the law violated their free speech rights.
Attorney: Powell boys said mom was 'in the trunk'

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:07am MST

The two boys of a Utah man suspected in his wife's disappearance and then of killing himself and his sons in an intentional fire were starting to talk about what happened the night their mother vanished, an attorney said.
Man gets stuck in elevators twice in one day

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:21am MST

Firefighters rescued a man who got stuck twice on elevators in a downtown building in Chicago on Sunday night.
Police: Man shoots self in leg at gun show

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:11am MST

Authorities say a Georgia man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the leg at a Savannah gun show.
Missing mom's slain sons: She was put 'in the trunk'

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:43am MST

The husband of missing Utah woman Susan Powell intentionally set his home on fire Sunday, killing him and his two young sons, authorities say
College student uncovers lost Malcolm X tape

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:31am MST

The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy-Leaguer fated to become one of America's top diplomats.