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In Philly schools, most students get a free lunch
For students at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, there IS such a thing as a free lunch - and a free breakfast, too. With no strings attached. (Updated: 07/05/09 3:01 PM )
Harvard pres.: School has tough choices in decline
Drew Gilpin Faust started as Harvard's president when the university's prosperity seemed limitless. With its ballooning wealth, Harvard planned almost frenzied growth, from a building boom into Boston to vast increases in student financial aid. (Updated: 07/05/09 3:50 PM )
Field-to-plate: VT college students try farming
Devin Lyons typically starts his days this summer cooking fresh eggs for breakfast from the farm's chicken coop. Then, depending on the weather, he and a dozen other college students might cut hay in the field using a team of oxen, turn compost or weed vegetable beds. (Updated: 07/05/09 1:10 PM )
More Vermont diocese properties face liens
A judge has put liens on four church-owned rest homes and part of the Vermont Roman Catholic diocese's investments in order to cover jury awards in two priest sex abuse cases. (Updated: 07/05/09 1:00 PM )
Honduran military told to turn back Zelaya's jet
Honduras' exiled president took off for home in a Venezuelan jet in a high-stakes attempt to return to power, even as the interim government told its military to turn away the plane. (Updated: 07/05/09 3:56 PM )
Holiday fireworks accidents kill 4 workers
Four people working on Independence Day fireworks shows were killed by explosions, three of them by a single blast that rocked this remote village on the Outer Banks islands. (Updated: 07/05/09 3:36 PM )
Mohawks v. Canada: Bridge shutdown hurts business
Melinda Walk needs her Canadian customers back - so much so that she's willing to give them full value for their currency at her convenience store-gas station just over the U.S.-Canadian border, even at a loss of 12 cents on the dollar. (Updated: 07/05/09 12:55 PM )
Missed revenue forecasts pose more woes for states
With its IOUs and plans to close state offices three days a month, California gets all the attention as lawmakers fight to write a budget set off balance by a $26.3 billion deficit. (Updated: 07/05/09 12:50 PM )
States digging deep to monitor water
About a quarter mile into dense woods, geologists watch as a drilling rig twists a shaft deep into the granite bedrock of southeastern New Hampshire. They are searching for water - not to drink - but to watch. (Updated: 07/05/09 1:30 PM )
Tucson rainwater harvesting law drawing interest
Long dependent on wellwater and supplies sent hundreds of miles by canal from the Colorado River, this desert city will soon harvest some of its 12 inches of annual rainfall to help bolster its water resources. (Updated: 07/05/09 11:55 AM )
Texas teen says father wrapped chain around him
Authorities in Texas have accused a man of wrapping a 20-foot chain around his teenage son's neck and spraying him in the face with Mace. (Updated: 07/05/09 11:15 AM )
Bus tips over in Adirondacks, killing 1, hurting 9
A bus rolled onto its side and plowed into a rock ledge early Sunday on a highway in the Adirondacks in northeastern New York, killing a woman pinned underneath and hurting nine others, authorities said. (Updated: 07/05/09 11:15 AM )
Walt Disney World monorail crash kills employee
Two monorail trains crashed early Sunday morning in the Magic Kingdom section of Walt Disney World, killing one train's operator, emergency officials said. (Updated: 07/05/09 3:21 PM )
Former D.C. Mayor Barry charged with stalking
Police say former Washington Mayor Marion Barry has been arrested and charged with stalking a woman. (Updated: 07/05/09 8:55 AM )
Post publisher apologizes for paid dinner plan
The Washington Post's publisher apologized to readers Sunday for a plan to charge business leaders and lobbyists for intimate dinner discussions with government officials and the newspaper's journalists. (Updated: 07/05/09 7:06 AM )
