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CHICAGO (AP) — The application system is scheduled to reopen next week for Illinois families wanting to apply for the state’s new private school scholarship program. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Empower Illinois, one of the organizations overseeing the Tax Credit Scholarship program, says the application system will reopen Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. The […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana legislative committee is dropping a proposal that would require parents to “opt in” for their children to take sex education classes in public schools. Changes made Tuesday by the Indiana House Education Committee would keep in place current practice of allowing parents to withdraw their children from such classes. The […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — One person is dead after a fire broke out at a suburban Kansas City apartment building. WDAF-TV reports that firefighters found a body around 6 a.m. Tuesday inside a burning apartment building in Liberty. The victim has not yet been identified. The body was found in a basement apartment, one […]

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Bates College has been named the top producer of Fulbright students among the nation’s small liberal arts colleges. The Chronicle of Higher Education says the Lewiston school, with about 1,800 undergraduates, had 23 Fulbright students this academic year. In the publication’s 2017-18 rankings, only six larger research institutions surpassed that total. […]

AKUTAN, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say a seafood plant in Akutan failed to report a fire on the property that could have endangered a nearby village. Village Public Safety Officer for Akutan Island Monte Chitty tells KTUU-TV that he was initially unaware of the fire that broke out at the Trident Seafoods plant on Sunday […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The winner of the 2011 Iditarod race says he will not return to trail to compete in the 2018 competition. Former champion John Baker tells KTVA-TV he is tied up with various projects that his company Remote Solutions is working on. Baker’s company helps rural communities and the Department of Transportation […]

LONDON (AP) — Chicken is still as scarce as hen’s teeth at KFC’s British outlets. KFC says about 470 of the fried chicken chain’s 900 U.K. restaurants remained closed Tuesday because of a chicken shortage. The company says the disruption started last week, when it changed its delivery provider to DHL. Open branches are operating […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say a 15-year-old boy was killed and a 19-year-old woman was injured in a shooting in a neighborhood on the city’s South Side. Police say the two were walking in Chatham about 5:20 p.m. Monday when someone approached them and fired shots. Police and the Cook County medical examiner identified […]

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A "more significant storm" is heading into the region on Friday. And if the cold temps persist, we could see more lowland snow, according to the National Weather Service.

The first treatment to help prevent serious allergic reactions to peanuts may be on the way. A company said Tuesday that its daily capsules of peanut flour helped sensitize children to nuts in a major study. Millions of children have peanut allergies, and some may have life-threatening reactions if accidentally exposed to them. Doctors have […]

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — William & Mary has named a woman to lead the university for the first time in its 325-year history. The school in Williamsburg, Virginia, said in a statement Tuesday that Smith College provost Katherine Rowe will become its 28th president. She will replace W. Taylor Reveley III, who is retiring this […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A food workers union and the owner of a distributor in Maine say they will meet to try to avert a strike that was authorized by union members. More than 200 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1445 who work at the Hannaford Distribution Center in South Portland announced […]

UTICA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say four people have died in a collision between a pickup truck and a semitrailer on Interstate 80 in eastern Nebraska. The crash was reported around 7:15 a.m. Tuesday between the Waco and Utica exits, hampering westbound traffic. York County Sheriff Dale Radcliff says three of those killed were male […]

DALLAS (AP) — Investigators are offering a $50,000 reward as they search for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Postal Service worker who was found dead in his mail truck in Dallas. Federal investigators announced Tuesday they were offering the reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction following the death […]

U.S. stocks were mostly lower in the early going Tuesday as trading reopened after a long holiday weekend. Disappointing earnings from Walmart weighed on the market, which was coming off a six-day winning streak. Losses in consumer-focused stocks and other sectors outweighed gains in energy companies and banks. KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor’s 500 […]

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A regional official in Poland wants two fragments of the wall that isolated the Warsaw Ghetto put on a list of historical monuments. The proposal published on Tuesday says the red brick wall at 53 Sienna Street should be protected as a witness to history and preserved for future generations. It […]

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Religious, community and business leaders in Pennsylvania’s third-largest city are taking the witness stand in defense of the embattled mayor in his federal corruption trial. Two pastors, a teacher and a business owner are among the character witnesses telling a jury Tuesday that Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski is honest, trustworthy and […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska group has begun collecting the nearly 85,000 petition signatures needed to get a $1.1 billion property tax relief measure on the November ballot. The Yes to Property Tax Relief group has until July 5 to collect the signatures. The proposal would give Nebraska property owners equal to 50 percent […]

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two former Greek government ministers have filed criminal lawsuits against witnesses who allegedly implicated them and other former officials in a pharmaceuticals scandal. Evangelos Venizelos, Greece’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister in 2013-2015, and Adonis Georgiadis, the country’s health minister in 2013-2014, filed the complaints Tuesday against the secret witnesses […]

BUHERA, Zimbabwe (AP) — Thousands of people in Zimbabwe on Tuesday gathered for the burial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, whose death from cancer exacerbated divisions within a movement preparing for elections this year. A hearse carrying Tsvangirai’s body in a white casket drove slowly through crowds to a school ground near his rural home […]

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 10 years’ probation after pleading guilty to using racial slurs and threatening a woman in a road rage incident in Pennsylvania last year. Fifty-eight-year-old Roger Chenault (SHEN’-oh) pleaded guilty last week to felony ethnic intimidation, terroristic threats, simple assault and reckless driving. Prosecutors in Lancaster […]

From the creation of Tofurky to the birth of the organic brown-rice industry, Jonathan Kauffman’s new book looks into an American food revolution.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t take up the case of a blogger convicted of criminally impersonating his father’s academic rivals on the subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The court on Tuesday declined to take the case of Raphael Golb, the son of University of Chicago professor Norman Golb. The younger Golb was […]