Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:24:00 GMT
State governors and education official's proposed new national standards for K-12 education today, a step President Obama believes is a key to improving the quality of the nation's schools. The voluntary guidelines, dubbed the "common core state ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:02:00 GMT
The ?most stable economies are those more exposed to manufacturing,? said Steven Cochrane , director of regional economics at Moody ... recession has been the biggest of any economic slump in the post-World War II era. State Payrolls Today?s ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:24:00 GMT
The new owners of the Ukrop's supermarkets are giving the stores a multimillion-dollar makeover. The renovation project also will mean that four of the chain's 25 stores will shut down a week at a time to make the changes. The makeover, which likely ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:24:00 GMT
In fact about 4 million Iraqis have had to leave their homes, and an additional 2 million have left the country entirely ? many taking refuge in regional neighbors such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Amos' new book, Eclipse of the Sunnis, traces the ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:24:00 GMT
3:55 p.m. In an executive directive sent today to all state employees, Gov. Bob McDonnell projected his strongest stance yet on non-discrimination in the workplace, but stopped short of calling for the legislature to add a protection based on sexual ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:24:00 GMT
(AP) ? Here are the pairings for the 2009-10 PIAA Class AAA Wrestling Championships. The tournament will be held Thursday through Saturday at the Giant Center in Hershey. (Wrestler, school, regional finish, class, record; "x'' denotes returning ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:16:00 GMT
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:26:00 GMT
For some time now readers and supporters of ChannelVision have been asking when we were going to extend the magazine and Web site brand into the trade show format,? says Berge Kaprelian, CEO and president of Beka Publishing. ?We are excited and ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:24:00 GMT
PHILADELPHIA - The self-dubbed "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond, all-American profile would help mask her plan to kill a Swedish cartoonist is a rare case of a U.S. woman inciting foreign terrorism and shows the latest evolution of the global ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:24:00 GMT
The Flagler Museum was the site Tuesday evening of an extraordinarily elegant performance by the American String Quartet. The luxurious sound for which the quartet is famous was apparent, as was the careful attention to dynamics and accents, and an ...