Revised Chicago school budget approved, $111 million gap remains
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday approved a revised budget that incorporates unpaid furlough days and other cost-cutting measures to save $104 million to help address a $215 million pension funding shortfall.
College Board tightens SAT exam security, but key risk remains
BOSTON/LONDON (Reuters) – The owner of the SAT college-entrance exam, which has been plagued by a raft of cheating incidents overseas, outlined new security measures but stopped short of remedying the test’s biggest vulnerability.
Judge bars investors from collecting on $300 million clerical error
(Reuters) – A judge has crushed the hopes of a group of investors in Ultra Petroleum Inc, a bankrupt natural gas company, who had sought to collect a $300 million windfall because a clerk entered a court order on the wrong date.
Dylann Roof stopped at second church after 2015 massacre -prosecutors
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Dylann Roof drove to another African-American church after killing nine black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina, a sign he intended to carry out more racially-motivated attacks, U.S. prosecutors said in newly unsea…
ACLU sues Milwaukee, widening challenge to police stop-and-frisk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union sued on Wednesday to halt Milwaukee’s stop-and-frisk policy, a nationally controversial policing practice that critics say unfairly targets people of color and has been endorsed by President Don…
Rejecting ‘noxious’ prejudice, U.S. top court backs black death row inmate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court gave a Texas death row inmate a chance to avoid execution on Wednesday, with Chief Justice John Roberts denouncing the “noxious strain of racial prejudice” that infected the case when a defense witness test…
U.S. appeals court upholds Maryland’s ban on assault rifles
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Maryland’s ban on assault rifles, ruling gun owners are not protected under the U.S. Constitution to possess “weapons of war,” court documents showed.
Michigan city to allow mosque, settle lawsuits alleging bias
(Reuters) – The Sterling Heights City Council in eastern Michigan has approved a stalled proposal to build a mosque, a necessary step to settle discrimination lawsuits from Muslim residents and the U.S. Department of Justice.
Flooding forces hundreds from homes in San Jose, California
(Reuters) – Murky, waist-high floodwaters swamped neighborhoods along a rain-swollen creek in the northern California city of San Jose on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue evacuation orders or advisories for more than 1,000 homes, city officials …
GE, Intel, AT&T team up to put cameras, mics in San Diego
SEATTLE (Reuters) – General Electric will put cameras, microphones and sensors on 3,200 street lights in San Diego this year, marking the first large-scale use of “smart city” tools GE says can help monitor traffic and pinpoint crime, but raising poten…
