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The emotionally charged question of whether to reopen the Sandy Hook Elementary School building, where 20 first-graders and six staffers were massacred, could be settled Friday night.A task force of more than two dozen officials is meeting to discuss and possibly vote on two options: raze the existing Newtown, Conn., building and open a new school down the street, or renovate or rebuild on the exi...
A California preschool teacher charged with spiking toddlers' sippy cups with sleeping pills entered a "no contest" plea, prosecutors said on Friday, reducing her original 10 charges down to five.Deborah Gratz, 59, of Hollister is expected to be sentenced on July 5, and faces a jail sentence on five misdemeanor courts. "No contest" is the same as a guilty plea.See original report at NBCBayArea...
The Texas fertilizer plant that exploded two weeks ago, killing 14 people and injuring about 200, was a repeat target of theft by intruders who tampered with tanks and caused the release of toxic chemicals, police records reviewed by Reuters show.Police responded to at least 11 reports of burglaries and five separate ammonia leaks at West Fertilizer Co over the past 12 years, according to 911 disp...
Two teen hikers lost for days in a California forest might have to pay for part or all of the $160,000 search after a small amount of drugs was found in their car, authorities said.Officials initially said Nicolas Cendoya, 19, and Kyndall Jack, 18, wouldn't be responsible for search costs. But Cendoya was charged this week with drug possession because methamphetamine was allegedly found in the...
Bucking a trend that has seen private equity firms buy business to bleed then shut down, United Steelworkers (USW) members at three Wisconsin paper mills and KPS Capital Partners have reached a new four-year collective bargaining agreement that workers ratified today.
