Tag: Higher Education

An examination of how the economic stimulus plan will affect Americans.Taxes:The recovery package has tax breaks for families that send a child to college, purchase a new car, buy a ...

Since last October, a drama has been unfolding in southwest Washington state that could and should serve as a warning for public employees nationwide. It concerns nontraditional college degree programs, ...

Sleepy judges answering last-minute appeals by phone. Bleary-eyed family members shuffling into witness rooms. Protesters' faces illuminated by candles outside prison fences.These images of midnight executions, ingrained though they are ...

A new large study challenges the idea that mental illness alone is a leading cause of violence.Researchers instead blame a combination of factors, specifically substance abuse and a history of ...

VENTURA, Calif. -- A federal jury in Los Angeles recently largely rejected a landmark, cutting edge cyberbullying prosecution against a woman charged in the suicide of a teenager she had ...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Prosecutors have DNA tests and hair samples. They have testimony about "the smell of death" in the trunk of the suspect's car.What they do not have is ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- On a chain around his neck, one San Antonio cop wears a bullet, one that pierced him on a January day more than five years ago. ...

It happens every day all across America: You receive a radio call about an armed robbery suspect leaving the scene of a crime. En route to the call, you observe ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A gun-control activist who championed the cause for more than a decade and served on the boards of two anti-violence groups is suspected of working as a paid ...

LANSING, Mich. -- Mary Babb was in her SUV last year when her estranged husband slammed into her with his pickup truck. The crash overturned Babb's vehicle and left her ...