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(AP) — Interim Jackson State University President Rod Paige says his main priority is to get the university's finances in order, which includes hiring a chief financial officer. Paige, speaking to The Clarion-Ledger Editorial Board (http://on.thec-l.com/2kdS159), said he is trying to get his hands wrapped around issues at his alma mater, but the main financial issue is expenses currently exceed income at the approximately 9,000-student university. No decision has been made yet on reducing expenditures... Читать дальше...

(AP) — State education officials have planned a pair of meetings to address the implementation of federal education law and smoothing the path to college. The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has scheduled a special meeting in Malden on Monday to discuss a proposed accountability plan and timeline for the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

(AP) — University of Wyoming President Laurie Nichols says a strategic planning initiative that began about four months ago is moving along as scheduled. The Laramie Boomerang reports (http://bit.ly/2jMo8s3 ) that Nichols addressed the UW Board of Trustees this past week about the plan's progress.

(AP) — Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine will talk about the importance of public service, U.S. policy priorities and America's role in the world during a visit to Tufts University. The U.S. senator from Virginia will visit Tufts in Medford, Massachusetts, on Monday to participate in a conversation with Alan Solomont, dean of Jonathan M. Tisch College for Civic Life and former U.S. ambassador to Spain and Andorra.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump accuses media of lying about inauguration crowds, wrongly says crowd reached Washington monument.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump tells CIA and intelligence officials, 'I am so behind you'

The Sundance Film Festival’s box office has been victim of a cyber attack, the festival said Saturday. Screenings will go on as planned, the Sundance Institute tweeted, though it’s unclear how they’ll account for ticket and pass holders. Within forty minutes, the festival was able to bring its Salt Lake City box office back online, as well as enable servers for future ticketing.

Inside and backstage the best industry bashes at the Sundance Film Festival with The Party Report’s Mikey Glazer Mirroring the massive turnout around the country, the turnout has swamped Park City in a united sea of activism.   On a special #DeltaFestivalShuttle from LAX, the Apatows were amongst a group of industry traveling together in “a members only club of creatives in the sky,” as Delta slugged the Thursday morning flight. The women from hot title “Ingrid Goes West” cuddled up before the film’s Friday night premiere at the Library. Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, continued to improve Saturday as they recover from illnesses at Houston Methodist Hospital, a family spokesman said. "President Bush is breathing well without any mechanical assistance, his spirits are high, and he is looking forward to getting back to a regular schedule," spokesman Jim McGrath said.

In a short skit played to a melancholy piano rendition of “Hail to the Chief,” “The Late Show” showed people replacing Obama portraits with some very interesting images of Trump. Like, a picture a judge put up on his bookshelf showed Trump advertising his failed Trump Steaks, while another photo put up by an EMT was Trump’s infamous Cinco De Mayo picture of him with a taco bowl.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man authorities say shot and killed a woman he'd been romantically involved with and a police officer who had tried to help her has died, hours after shooting himself in the chest during a standoff with authorities on a New Orleans bridge. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said during talks with authorities on the bridge Holt admitted shooting Westwego Police Officer Michael Louviere, 26, and Simone Veal, 32, the woman Holt had been romantically involved with. "Witnesses... Читать дальше...

At least that’s the way she told it on Saturday at the Women’s March on Main Street, a demonstration at the Sundance Film Festival that’s a sister to the Women’s March on Washington. The crowd went wild at the mention of Streep’s Cecil B. DeMille acceptance speech earlier in January, in a video captured by TheWrap at the rally. Actresses, executives and residents of the resort town turned out in pink, white and purple hats — many of them crafted to resemble female anatomy.

Massive crowds gathered across the Bay Area on Saturday morning a day after President Trump’s inauguration to declare that they will oppose the new president’s agenda wherever they see it opposing them. The five Women’s March events planned around the region Saturday echoed the main Women’s March held simultaneously in Washington, D.C. — advocating for the rights of women, minorities, immigrants and the poor. In Oakland, thousands of women, men, and children of all ages gathered, wearing pink hats... Читать дальше...

Bedenbaugh says firefighters used only 250 gallons of water on the blaze to save as much of the mail as they could. Bedenbaugh says setting fire to the post office is a federal offense.

WASHINGTON (AP) — AP source: Crowd packs entire route of Women's March, preventing organizers from leading formal march toward White House.

DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were: 2-9-4-7 (two, nine, four, seven)

DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were: 5-0-0 (five, zero, zero)

Clearly indebted to the memory of “Brokeback Mountain” and its cautious handling of gay male love amidst sheep and lonely landscape, Francis Lee’s debut feature “God’s Own Country” is set on a Yorkshire farm much like the one he himself grew up on, and the camerawork seems in thrall to nature here above all else. The editing and pacing in this first section of “God’s Own Country” is promisingly fast and intuitive, and the sex scene between Johnny and the blond boy has a very erotic furtive feeling. Читать дальше...

[...] it demonstrates the uncomfortable reality Trump faces if he is serious about his promises to "drain the swamp" of those who use their ties to public officials to make "a fortune." The Trump campaign was far smaller and newer to politics than most, meaning those who have not gone into the administration are in hot demand by companies and industry groups hoping to make inroads with the new president. Scott Mason, who was Trump's chief liaison to the House through the campaign and transition... Читать дальше...

Deputies charged 24-year-old Zapporah Sutton with unlawful neglect of a child, saying she told family members if she wasn't arrested, she would kill the baby and her two other children. Sutton's family says they think she is suffering from postpartum depression and needs mental help.

Growing up in Park Ridge, New Jersey, eldest sister Maggie formed a duo with middle sister Terre, and while touring, they caught the attention of Paul Simon, who brought them in as backup singers for his hit 1973 album, "There Goes Rhymin' Simon." The voices of this threesome blended majestically, with Maggie's rich contralto balanced by Terre's soprano and Suzzy filling in the mid-range. With "We," the first song of that debut album, they charmingly introduced themselves, with acoustic guitar backup... Читать дальше...

MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Two people are dead at a home in Ingham County. Meridian Township police say the bodies were found around 1 a.m. Saturday, north of Lansing. Investigators are considering it a double homicide. Anyone with information can call (517) 853-4800.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Less than a year after taking leadership of the 17-campus University of North Carolina system, Margaret Spellings has a plan for making the state's public colleges more welcoming to rural and minority students, more affordable and more involved in their communities. The budget and policy priorities seek "a more productive, data-driven, and accountable system of higher education," according to the spending outline approved by the university system's Board of Governors this month. Читать дальше...

Boartfield says he will run on a platform of criminal justice reform, a decision he said was fueled by a recent profile of Gretna and its Police Department in the online publication Fusion. Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown's fatal shooting by police in 2014 prompted protests, riots and national scrutiny of the local Police Department and its dependence on fees and fines, took in $2.46 million in municipal court fines and fees, or about $117 for every resident. Deputy Police Chief Anthony... Читать дальше...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man has been charged after Ankeny Wal-Mart employees say he threatened to kill them with a knife he had stolen from the store. Employees say the man tried to leave the store with the knife, clothing and beer and that when they stopped him, he threatened to kill them.