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WASHINGTON (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Brace for a stream of digital leaks and shenanigans by Election Day. Whether it's newly disclosed Democratic Party emails or someone tampering with voting machines, this year's presidential election could come with hacking intrigue like none before it. Consider messages stolen from the Democrats by suspected Russian-linked hackers and posted online in the summer by the self-described persona Guccifer 2.0. That trove led to so much outrage from fellow Democrats that the party's chairwoman, Debbie W...
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Dealing with an increasingly technology-centric culture and now feeling pressure from the state in the form of a soon-to-be completely online MCAS test, more and more schools across the state are adopting plans to put computers in the hands of every one of their students. But in central Massachusetts, at least, the approaches to that goal vary considerably, as districts weigh the financial burden of buying hundreds of expensive laptops or tablets. Some school systems have abandoned pursuit of a so-c...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Twenty years ago, Ben Liske, a 16-year-old with autism, might not have had a chance for admission at any competitive liberal arts college. But at Trinity College, where Liske is a first-year student, he was not only admitted, but also was welcomed with a $200,000, four-year Presidential Scholarship. Certainly Ben, who is from Nashville, Tennessee, had plenty of qualifications. He had top test scores and grades, as well as recommendations from his high school noting his brilliance in math and m...
LITHIA SPRINGS, Ga. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Five years ago, when Garrick Askew arrived at Lithia Springs High as the new principal, the Douglas County school of 1,500 students was a very different place. "It was one of the lowest-performing Title One schools in the state, in the lowest 5 percent," he said. "Our reduced-lunch population was about 78 percent. The graduation rate was 55 percent. I met with administrators and told them it would take all of us working as a team to make it happen. We gathered in the teachers, and I set a very h...
PHOENIX (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Despite all the rehabilitation, the headaches would not go away. The imbalance, while better, was still there. His speech improved, but vision and hearing issues persisted. Months after the blow that caused his concussion, Rudy Ayala still had significant symptoms. Though he loved playing football, the lingering problems, along with watching a friend suffer a similar injury, led Ayala to make a difficult decision: He walked away from football. "I just realized the damage that can happen to your brain with a...
PHOENIX (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Arizona's attorney general says the state's private elementary, middle and high schools can allow guns on campus. State and federal laws don't prevent someone with an Arizona concealed-carry permit from carrying a concealed gun on private school grounds, according to a recent opinion released by the Arizona Attorney General's Office. Attorney General Mark Brnovich also wrote that the law doesn't prevent schools form having guns secured on campus for use by trained employees who are not police officers, r...
EASTON, Pa. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — A college professor says he has ended a hunger strike he began last week over the denial of his application for tenure. Lafayette College professor Juan Rojo said on his Facebook page that halting the strike was "an agonizing decision, more so than the decision to start." He said he decided to wait until Monday to eat again after informing the college's board and community of his decision. "I wanted to make sure people understood that stopping was a decision consciously made rather than me simply g...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — College applications and high school graduation are the biggest worries for most 17-year-olds. For Gavin Grimm, it's waiting for the nation's highest court to decide whether he can use the boys restroom. Grimm, who was born female but identifies as male, heads back to Gloucester High School for his senior year this week as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to intervene in his case that challenges the county school's policy barring him from using the bathroom of his choice. For now, Grimm will ha...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Sleepy Guyana has long been one of the hemisphere's poorest places, a sparsely populated nation on South America's northern shoulder that relies heavily on exports of sugar, rice and gold. But these days, there's a surge of excitement about an anticipated windfall from major oil-and-gas deposits found in the deep seabed 120 miles (193 kilometers) off the coast — as well as worries about the disruptions and conflicts it might bring. Hopes are high that fuel siphoned in a few years' time from mor...
MOSCOW (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — The world's two largest oil producers, Russia and Saudi Arabia, on Monday agreed to act together to stabilize global oil output, though it's unclear what that might entail. Energy ministers Alexander Novak and Minister Khalid al-Falih met Monday on the sidelines of the Group of 20 nations' summit in China. A joint statement released by Russia said both ministers "recognized the need to restrain an excessive volatility of the oil market" and agreed to act together "in order to stabilize the oil market." N...
HANGZHOU, China (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Mostly unnoticed amid the political brawl over climate change, the United States has undergone a quiet transformation in how and where it gets its energy during Barack Obama's presidency, slicing the nation's output of polluting gases that are warming Earth. As politicians tangled in the U.S. and on the world stage, the U.S. slowly but surely moved away from emissions-spewing coal and toward cleaner fuels like natural gas, nuclear, wind and solar. The shift has put the U.S. closer to achieving the g...
AMESBURY, Mass. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — With local cities and towns putting water bans into place at an alarming rate this month, Ed Tivnan would like everyone to know the state of his garden. "My garden has never been better, it's always watered," Tivnan said. "But the chipmunk is getting at it more than I would like it to be. I have to get up early in the morning to keep the chipmunk away. I've got the only tomatoes around." The chipmunks have been able to gorge on tomatoes in the middle of this summer's severe drought at Tivnan's A...
Shelby Gene Combs and Meghan Elizabeth Davis, both of Woodward, filed for a marriage license (no counseling) ($50). Brandon Wayne Mustard and Rhanda Ranae Long, both of Alva, filed for a marriage license (no counseling) ($50)....
