Posts Tagged Social issues

Official: 2nd teacher pulled from S. Calif. school

In this undated police booking photo released by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department shows former Los Angeles teacher Mark Berndt, 61, who was arrested for felony molestation of 23 kids after photos surfaced.  Berndt been charged with committing lewd acts with 23 boys and girls ages 7 to 10.  AP Photo/ Los Angeles Sheriff's Department)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A second teacher at an inner-city elementary school where a teacher is accused of committing lewd acts on 23 children was arrested Friday on suspicion of fondling two girls in his classroom.

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Deported Texas teen maintains alias in jail calls

In this Jan. 6, 2012 file photo, Jakadrien Turner, 15, arrives at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport in Grapevine, Texas. Turner was mistakenly deported to Colombia after Immigration and Customs Enforcement say she claimed to be Colombian woman named Tika Lanay Cortez, 21, when she was arrested in April for theft by Houston Police. More than two dozen recorded telephone calls reviewed by The Associated Press show Turner expected to be deported to Colombia yet did not complain of having no ties to the country. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes, File)

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas teenager who was deported to South America under a false name never expressed concern during jailhouse phone calls that she was being misidentified as an illegal immigrant from Colombia.

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Activists say 23 dead in Syria violence

In this citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and released Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, an anti-Syrian regime protester, holds a poster in Arabic that reads, "to the Syrian freedom soldiers, our hearts are bases for you," as he walks during a demonstration in Idlib Province, north Syria. Russia's deputy defense minister says Moscow will not stop arms sales to Syria. Russian state news agencies quoted Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov on Thursday as saying Russia is not violating any international obligations. (AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria)  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO

BEIRUT (AP) — In a barrage of shelling, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds early Saturday in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said.

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Unemployment falls sharply in US, rises in Europe

America’s job market is starting to heal just as other major economies contend with rising unemployment and the threat of recession.

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Unemployment falls sharply in US, rises in Europe

America’s job market is starting to heal just as other major economies contend with rising unemployment and the threat of recession.

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