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(AP) — In the quest to save money in the public sector amid dwindling financial support from the state government, Marshall University officials are pulling the plug on one of the oldest buildings on campus. Laidley Hall, a three-story coed residence hall, will be decommissioned at the end of the current academic year as a part of the university's ongoing effort to identify campus space that has been underutilized, Marshall's Senior Vice President of Operations Brandi Jacobs-Jones said during the Marshall Board of Governors meeting on Oct. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as President Barack Obama tries to make a hard case for overhauling sentences, rehabilitating prisoners and confronting racial bias in policing, he has been less clear about the death penalty. A shortage of lethal injection drugs has meant de facto freezes in several states and at the federal level. Spurred in part by encouragement from Supreme Court justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, advocates are debating whether the time is right to push the court to take... Читать дальше...

[...] the macaroni and cheese, sweet potato gratin and Yukon Gold mashed potatoes Earlier Thursday, Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address to appeal again for acceptance of Syrian refugees, saying "so much of our greatness comes from our generosity." Obama's plan to receive thousands of additional Syrian refugees has come under heavy criticism in Congress and by Republican presidential contenders in the aftermath of the Paris attacks Nov. 13.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An advocacy group is offering Donald Trump sensitivity training after he appeared to mock a reporter with a disability in a South Carolina speech. Trump has made unsubstantiated claims that thousands of Muslims in New Jersey were seen celebrating the attacks. The story did not suggest "thousands" were celebrating, as Trump claimed, and a story then by The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, said the reports of such celebrations by Muslims proved unfounded.

Many who grew up in the largely rural state are comfortable with the idea, while others say allowing a bunch of people to roam freely among the student body with guns will be an absolute disaster. For a public agency to ban guns in a particular building, it must provide adequate security measures — such as metal detectors, metal detector wands or similar devices — to make sure no weapons are permitted inside. [...] a committee comprised of student body presidents from all state universities has... Читать дальше...

Larry Boivin earned a Purple Heart in Iraq in 2004, but he didn't survive a Union Pacific freight train that slammed into the flat-bed trailer he and other veterans were riding on during a 2012 parade in Midland, Texas. The dispute, according to a review of court documents, is over another part of the same federal regulation that also says a railroad "shall" maintain the warning system as designed. The driver of the truck pulling the Midland float said in a deposition that if there had been nine more seconds of warning ... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO (AP) — A black teenager shot 16 times by a white Chicago police officer was a ward of the state when he died, having spent years being shuttled between different relatives' homes and foster care from the time he was 3. School officials and the McDonald family lawyer say there were signs Laquan was trying to get his life in order, though prosecutors say he had drugs in his system and was burglarizing cars on Oct. 20, 2014 — the night a squad-car video captured officer Jason Van Dyke shooting him. Читать дальше...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Supporters of a measure that would exempt some small-time farmers and ranchers from food safety rules are pointing to a small Utah farm blocked by state regulators from selling turkeys this Thanksgiving as an example of regulations they see as burdensome. [...] McDowell Family Farm stopped selling their chickens and turkeys this year after state regulators said the farm and their open-air slaughtering violated state poultry laws and their products weren't properly labeled or inspected. Читать дальше...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Austin school board has voted to change a policy that would allow schools named after Confederate figures to proceed with name changes. The shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina last summer, when nine African-Americans were killed, sparked a national debate about Confederate symbols.

(AP) — Four people have met for the first time since a pair of kidney swaps at a Connecticut hospital. The Hartford Courant reports (http://cour.at/1QJcXdv ) the family of 3-year-old Jeremy Orellana, as well as Fred Ferris, Beth Mix, and Julissa Canales, had an emotional meeting for the first time on Wednesday following the Nov. 10 surgeries.

A Warrington, P.A., family claims their daughter's brain tumor shrank after she was kissed by Pope Francis.

(AP) — Three decades ago, a University of Nevada researcher who obtained one of the first U.S. Energy Department grants to study the potential to turn plants into biofuels became convinced that a roadside weed — curly top gumweed — was growing along the road to the future. [...] scientists who've been cultivating gumweed on the Reno campus think they are on the verge of producing diesel fuel, and perhaps someday jet fuel, from the sticky cousin of the sunflower that grows across much of Nevada's... Читать дальше...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Some 90 percent of seafood consumed by Americans is imported — a fact that the Obama administration vowed to start turning around by expanding fish and shellfish farms into federal waters. A draft of NOAA's five-year strategic plan calls for marine aquaculture production to jump 50 percent by 2020, and expanding into federal waters is key. Critics fear it will open the doors to massive fish farms like those in other countries that have polluted waters from the accumulation of feces... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is making a hard case for overhauling the U.S. criminal justice system, but where he stands on the death penalty is unclear. A shortage of lethal injection drugs has meant de facto freezes in several states and at the federal level. Spurred in part by encouragement from Supreme Court justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, advocates are debating whether the time is right to push the court to take a fresh look at whether the death penalty is constitutional. Читать дальше...

HELSINKI (AP) — Consumer electronics company Bang & Olufsen says it's in talks over a potential takeover bid, sending its shares surging more than 30 percent.

Covington, whose name will be on a new center for Native American students at Eastern Washington University, rose from a reluctant candidate for the Colville Tribal Business Council to a nationally recognized leader for Indian rights and sovereignty and an advocate who had the ear of powerful congressmen. Among those young leaders was Tonasket himself, who tried to decline when Covington asked him to run for tribal council, saying he was no politician and had even been too shy to speak up in class as a boy. Читать дальше...

CHICAGO (AP) — Officials of Chicago Public Schools say they're preparing for the fallout resulting from the video showing a police officer shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. The CPS says the kit is a teaching tool, but teachers union official Jesse Sharkey criticizes it for not including a "lesson about the lack of political courage" and "political corruption."

BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama's pardoning of a turkey named "Abe" this Thanksgiving has led some Chinese to gloat at the Japanese prime minister's expense. Many Chinese harbor animosity toward Japan because of its brutal occupation of much of China during World War II, and they specifically scorn Abe because of his visits to a war shrine that is seen as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.

Online court records say 62-year-old Allen Twait, of Forest City, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to assault causing injury or mental illness. A criminal complaint alleges Twait fondled a child under 14 last February, but that the incident was not alleged to have occurred at the school where Twait worked.

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Obama's plan to receive thousands of additional Syrian refugees has come under heavy criticism in Congress and has become a key part of the 2016 presidential campaign rhetoric in the wake of a series of attacks Nov. 13 on Paris. Some on Capitol Hill, voicing concerns about homeland security, are pressing for legislation further tightening the conditions under which refugees can be admitted.

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The Chicago Tribune reports (http://trib.in/1Nu6piz) that on Wednesday, district officials said an unspecified "flawed funding formula" and an appeals process led it to not only restore some of its earlier cuts, but add positions. When the cuts were announced, advocates, parents and principals questioned whether the school district could adhere to legal regulations governing funding and services for special education students.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Terre Haute's only Catholic high school has closed its doors after running out of funding. John Paul II Catholic High School's board of governors voted to close it this week. The school opened in 2000. Board President David Fuson says the school lost a key donor earlier this year and enrollment fell by half to just seven students. Fuson says the school didn't have enough support to keep going. He says students will either transfer to other schools, be home schooled, or their families will examine other options.