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(AP) — The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has voted to revoke the certificate of a former Destrehan High School teacher who had sex with a 16-year-old student. If she fails to complete the mental health program by the end of August, she must report to the St. Charles Parish jail Sept. 1 to serve the remainder of her time.

Former president Jimmy Carter announced Wednesday that he has cancer and will be undergoing treatment at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta.Carter, 90, said the disease was discovered during recent liver surgery to remove "a small mass" and that the cancer "is now in other parts of my body."Read full article >>

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources' board has expanded the list of projects that don't require an environmental analysis.

Championship side Preston progress to the second round of the League Cup with victory at League One Crewe.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance says property values statewide have risen for a second year.

Courteney Cox heads into Craig’s restaurant for dinner on Monday night (August 10) in West Hollywood, Calif. The 51-year-old actress was seen out and about over the weekend to attend a Snow Patrol concert with her fiance Johnny McDaid. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Courteney Cox Johnny wrote a tweet about his excitement [...]

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After Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election, Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus commissioned an autopsy to determine what had gone wrong. High on the list: a yawning gender gap. Romney won the votes of most men but lost among female voters by 11 percentage points; among single women,...

Former President Jimmy Carter announced he has been diagnosed with cancer in a brief statement issued Wednesday.

As millions of students head back to school in coming weeks, they’ll be toting more than just a few notebooks and a backpack. Increasingly, public schools are leaning on families to outfit entire classrooms, asking them to supply items as varied as cardstock, copier paper, hand sanitizer and Band-Aids.Read full article >>

Vox Media landed a $200 million strategic investment from the entertainment group NBCUniversal, NYT reports.

A rocky jetty punctured the hull of the 19-year-old's Jet Ski, leaving him in the ocean overnight, according to his mother.

Taking advantage of par-fives and bunker play could prove key at this year’s PGA Championship. A look at the top contenders.

WASHINGTON — North Korea is expanding its capacity to mine and mill uranium ore, which could supply its nuclear weapons program or fuel nuclear reactors, according to new U.S. research. Lewis writes that recent commercial satellite imagery, the latest from this May, shows that over the past year, North Korea has been modernizing a key facility next to its main uranium mine at the southern site of Pyongsan, not far from the frontier with rival South Korea. A uranium mill is where uranium ore is turned into yellowcake... Читать дальше...

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — The PGA of America has no plans to take two golf tournaments away from courses Donald Trump owns over the next seven years.

LaMarcus was not the guy for them right now anyway.

Kelly Rutherford. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for alice + olivia) Kelly Rutherford has taken aim at the New York judge who ordered the actress to send her two children back to Monaco to be with their father, calling the ruling “shocking, illegal and abusive” to her kids. The former “Gossip Girl” star was summoned to appear in court on Tuesday after disobeying a French custody order that required her to return 8-year-old Hermes and 6-year-old Helena to their Monaco-based father, German businessman Daniel Giersch... Читать дальше...

Why Jaromir Jagr is crucial for the box office.

(ATTN: ADDS background) SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Yonhap) -- President Park Geun-hye plans to visit Washington in October for talks with U.S. President Barack Obama, a trip rescheduled after an earlier visit was postponed due to the MERS outbreak in South Korea

Former President Jimmy Carter says he has cancer

The track defect that caused last week’s Metro derailment was detected more than a month ago, but it was not repaired, the agency’s top executive said Wednesday.In addition, the flaw’s detection should have triggered the immediate shutdown of the section of rail involved, but the agency continued to run trains through it until the derailment.Read full article >>

The regents gave SDSU the green light Tuesday to start developing plans for an undergraduate degree in precision agriculture. University officials say the program would prepare students for careers involving diverse work in agronomy, agricultural machinery management and data sciences.

An Iowa voter explains why she's supporting The Donald this time.