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(AP) — The Walton Family Foundation plans to support the development of a private school in Bentonville that will serve students at the middle and high school levels. Other details about the school, including its name and opening date, have not been decided, said Luis Gonzalez, a senior communications officer for the foundation. President and CEO Dana Davis of the Bentonville and Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce said the quality and variety of educational options in an area affect its quality of life.

With the model year fading away, Hyundai is offering qualified buyers incentives that include $269 lease payments on a 36-month lease, zero percent financing or cash back on the 2015 Santa Fe. The GLS and Limited share the same powertrain: a 3.3-liter direct-injection DOHC V6 rated at 290 horsepower and a six-speed automatic transmission. The Santa Fe GLS comes with plenty of content, including an eight-way power driver's seat with four-way power lumbar and heated front seats, projector headlights with LED accents... Читать дальше...

Singer Kelly Price. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images) R&B star Kelly Price is heading for divorce after 23 years of marriage. The singer, 42, reveals she and her manager husband Jeffrey Rolle simply “grew apart” and mutually decided to split. A statement released by Price to AlywaysAList.com reads: “After the untimely death of my sister last year, it weighed on me heavily that this was something we needed to do. I ultimately made the decision to live the best life I can. I ended things because... Читать дальше...

Amazon shares surged almost 10 percent on Friday after the e-commerce powerhouse reported a surprise second-quarter profit and a better-than-expected 20 percent jump in revenue. The sharp increase in shares brought Amazon's market value to $247.77 billion, more than its biggest rival, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., signaling a sea change in retailing. A company's market value is calculated by multiplying the number of shares of stock it has in circulation by the current price of one share. "When it is good... Читать дальше...

IRBIL, Iraq — Defense Secretary Ash Carter held talks Friday with Iraqi Kurdish leaders in their regional capital of Irbil, seeking insights to their military successes against the Islamic State. Afterward he told U.S. and coalition troops that the Kurdish armed forces, known as the peshmerga, are “the model of what we are trying to achieve” with a strategy of enabling capable and motivated local forces in northern and western Iraq to take the ground combat lead. Carter arrived on a military flight from Amman... Читать дальше...

If Congress rejects the deal, he said Iranian hardliners would speed ahead with their nuclear program and the international sanctions regime would collapse. Kerry has been front and center in the Obama administration’s campaign to sell the deal to skeptical lawmakers. Congress has started a 60-day review of the agreement, which lifts economic sanctions against Iran if it curbs its nuclear program’s capacity to build a nuclear weapon. At a Senate hearing on Thursday, Kerry said it is “fantasy,... Читать дальше...

The Democratic presidential frontrunner said she would seek to change the tax structure by raising capital gains taxes while also reviewing executive compensation rules and addressing shareholder activism that often encourages companies to focus on short-term profits. The centerpiece would be her plan to raise capital gains taxes for wealthy investors — couples earning more than $465,000 a year — through the creation of a six-year sliding scale. Under her plan, the capital gains rate for the top... Читать дальше...

Gil was referring to Trump's visit Thursday to Laredo, Texas, a small city on the U.S.-Mexico border where the Republican presidential candidate spent less than an hour touring the border, bragged to reporters about the danger he faced, proclaimed Hispanics love him, and stopped traffic with a presidential-sized motorcade. Yet beyond the spectacle The Donald seems to create wherever he goes, the billionaire businessman's visit exposed evidence of a divided community whose overwhelmingly Hispanic... Читать дальше...

Most of the seating is outside at this newly open taco stand that serves satisfying, inexpensive fare, such as a shrimp taco ($3.75), ground chorizo with pico de gallo ($2.50) and grilled pork with green salsa ($2.50) — all on house-made tortillas. Many locals swear by this sushi restaurant, which opened in early 2014 in Pismo Beach. Best bet is to order the premium omakase menu featuring the chef’s choice of eight pieces of premium nigiri for $32, which includes raw shrimp on barely warm rice accompanied by its fried head. Читать дальше...

A memo signed this week by the inspector general of the intelligence community to members of Congress said the IG’s office had identified “potentially hundreds of classified e-mails” among the 30,000 that Clinton had provided and that are now being processed for public release. None of the e-mails were marked as classified at the time they were sent or received, but some should have been handled as such and sent on a secure computer network, according to the letter to congressional oversight committees from I. Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — A woman accused of making verbal threats at the Wayne County Community College District campus in downtown Detroit has been arrested. The county sheriff's department says administration officials called campus security officers Friday after hearing the woman use an expletive for the school and say she would "blow" it "up."

Natalie Portman as Queen Amidala in “Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace” with Jar Jar Binks. (Lucasfilm Ltd.) “Star Wars” creator George Lucas reportedly shot down Michael Jackson’s dreams of playing space alien Jar Jar Binks in the sci-fi prequels, according to actor Ahmed Best. The King of Pop reportedly wanted to don a full suit of prosthetics and heavy make-up to achieve the look of the giant fictional Gungan species, but director Lucas was not interested. Best eventually landed the role as the voice of Jar Jar Binks... Читать дальше...

All those sources of delight are on offer in the Merola Opera Program’s wondrous production of Puccini’s one-act opera “Gianni Schicchi,” which opened an all-too-brief two-performance run Thursday night at the Cowell Theater in Fort Mason Center as part of a double bill. By the time the piece has run its hour-long course, the audience has been wowed by the vocal and dramatic talents of a large ensemble of young singing actors, had its collective funny bone tickled in a hundred ways by director Peter Kazaras’ imaginative staging... Читать дальше...

Angelina Jolie (Getty) Angelina Jolie is adding to her director credentials by taking charge of a hard-hitting new Netflix project. The filmmaker will be behind the camera for “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.” The movie is based on Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung’s tale of surviving the notorious Khmer Rouge regime. Jolie, a United Nations ambassador, will also produce the film, which will be released on movie streaming site Netflix in late 2016. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Clarke County schools officials say hundreds of former students have qualified to get their high school diplomas because of a state law that retroactively dropped a required graduation test. Clarke County School District records management specialist Marshal Akers told the Athens Banner-Herald Thursday (http://bit.ly/1MK6OIQ ) that students from graduating classes as far back as 1992 have applied for and been approved to receive diplomas from Clarke Central, Cedar Shoals and Classic City High School.

The AT&T deal did not trigger the same fears from consumer advocates because the company wouldn't contain an entertainment division like Comcast's NBCUniversal and wouldn't gain Internet customers, considered the future of the industry, by buying DirecTV. Among these are that AT&T has to expand a fiber network that can handle fast Internet speeds to 12.5 million possible customers, which it says compensates for the loss of a video option in markets where AT&T's U-verse cable service had competed with DirecTV's satellite TV service.

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is within $5,000 of successfully completing its first Kickstarter, a crowdfunding campaign to preserve and digitize Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit. The “Reboot the Suit” campaign is raising money to take the suit, which Armstrong wore on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, and create a 3D digital model before

A state commission released its report on legalizing marijuana in California this week with 58 recommendations for Californians to consider before the matter lands on the 2016 ballot. The commission took a wide view of possible legalization of recreational marijuana but public health and safety topped the list of concerns. What is your view? Take

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According to district documents, Frey was a substitute teacher in Pendleton schools for 102 days between Feb. 24, 2014, and March 13, 2015. The charges state that Frey started having sex with a 17-year-old female student on the last day of his tenure, and the relationship continued for several weeks.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Southern Utah University police say a video they posted online helped them nab an 18-year-old suspected of starting a fire on campus. The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reported Thursday (http://bit.ly/1g9uE6R) that police got an anonymous tip after posting surveillance footage on Facebook that led them to Marshall Todd Young.

A photo posted by King Kylie (@kyliejenner) on Jul 23, 2015 at 8:24pm PDT Kim Kardashian’s half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner celebrated their graduation on Thursday with a lavish party. Kylie finished her home schooling last week and her mother Kris Jenner organized a surprise bash at their California mansion for the 17 year old and her sister Kendall, who completed her studies the previous year. I love my mom for doing this. Thank you for making this experience as normal as possible for me.... Читать дальше...

Every summer when temperatures spike, the news is rife with stories of babies and young children who are left in hot cars and die. Last year, 31 children died. So far 10 have died this year. On average, 37 children die in hot cars a year. These deaths can happen fast as a child’s body temperature rises

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Educators and the school board in Rapid City have reached a tentative agreement for a new contract for teachers in the upcoming school year. The Rapid City Board of Education says the agreement reached Thursday night will divert funding intended for construction projects to boost teacher pay in the district.