January 2013
January 3rd, 2013
Written by Martha Waggoner... in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue issued pardons Monday to the Wilmington 10, a group wrongly convicted 40 years ago in a notorious Civil Rights-era prosecution that led to accusations that the state was holding political prisoners.
Perdue issued pardons of innocence Monday for the nine black men and one white woman who received prison sentences totaling nearly 300...
January 2nd, 2013
Written by Tim Reynolds -A... in Common Ties That Bind, Latest News with 0 Comments
Diversity is the theme of this season's U.S. women's bobsled roster.
The nine-person team includes an Olympic sprinting gold medalist, an elite hurdler with more than 300,000 Twitter followers four other athletes with extensive track and field backgrounds, a personal trainer, a volleyball player, and a softball shortstop. They come from California to New Jersey, to Georgia, to Illinois.
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January 2nd, 2013
Written by Kristi Eaton - ... in Latest News with 0 Comments
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The country's largest rural, nonprofit hospital system is hiring two traditional Native American healers to train medical staff in the Dakotas and Minnesota in an effort to better serve the American Indian patient population.
Sanford Health is in the process of hiring a Lakota/Dakota and an Ojibwe to serve as consultants as part of a three-year $12 million Center for...
January 2nd, 2013
Written by Emily Wagster P... in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said education dominates his 2013 legislative agenda, from merit pay for teachers to charter schools that will receive public funding but be free of some state regulations.
"Ninety percent of our goal this session is to not only talk about education but get something transformational passed," the Republican said in an interview with The...