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(WIDK By Danny Fisher) – Boston Marathon terror bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been taken into custody.
CBS Boston reports a “flurry of applause” signaled the end of a nearly two hour standoff between police and the second Boston Marathon terror suspect in a Watertown neighborhood. Click to read more…
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(WIDK By Danny Fisher) – New details emerged today about the two suspected bombers of the Boston Marathon.
The two suspects are believed to be brothers from Chechnya - Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19 and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, believed to be in his mid-20′s. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, described as a “very religious” Muslim, is believed to be dead, and his brother Dzhokhar is believed to be on the loose and possibly wearing a suicide vest. Click to read more…
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(WIDK By Alex Dorian) – …What other word should he have used?
Tim McDaniel, a 10th grade science teacher at Dietrich High School in Idaho, is under investigation by the Idaho State Department of Education after he used the word “vagina” in a class designated for sex education.
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(WIDK By AnnaMarie Houlis) - When rape occurs on college campuses, it is not funny; when “seven frat dwarves” rape “the fairest of them all,” does it then become a laughing matter?
Chelsea Diana, a sophomore journalism student at Boston University, and editor of the school’s independent student newspaper resigned on Tuesday after an April Fools’ edition, “The Disney Free Press,” featured a story mocking rape.
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(WIDK By Mike McCurdy) – The City of New York recently banned certain topics on school tests to prevent controversy.
In an attempt to be more politically correct, the New York City school system has placed a ban on 50 different topics featured in standardized tests ranging from dinosaurs, aliens and birthdays to celebrities, video games and even animals.
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(WIDK by Patrick Heywood) - A teacher crossed a racial line with one of her students.
Jordan Shumate, 14, was asked to read a Langston Hughes poem in a “blacker” style by a ninth-grade English teacher identified as Marylin Bart at George C. Marshall High School in Falls Church, Virginia.
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