Knightstown ‘Children’s Home’ to close - Rushville Republican

INDIANAPOLIS — The state of Indiana will close a 143-year-old home for troubled children in May, disappointing alumni who had found refuge there and the veterans groups that supported it. The Indiana State Department of Health said it would close ...

Bush doesn't know how many toilets there are in the White House! - New Kerala

Washington, Jan 9 : Even after being in the White House for eight years, President George W. Bush still can't tell how many toilets are there. The American President was stumped when one of the second graders, during his visit to the Kearny School in ...

Stanford women hand Huskies worst Pac-10 loss ever - KING-5

STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford is thinking about a return trip to the Final Four and what it will take to get there. Productive games from start to finish on both ends like this one are what the Cardinal want every night. Jayne Appel had 21 points ...

Screenwriter floors it with 'Gran Torino' - Baton Rouge Advocate

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Working at a liquor store or a construction site, Nick Schenk developed an ear for realistic dialogue. Eventually he wrote a script on scrap paper while sitting at a blue-collar bar in northeast Minneapolis. That script was ...

As Home Schooling Surges, the Evangelical Share Drops - US News and World Report

Long the heart of the home-schooling movement, conservative evangelicals are cheering a new Department of Education report that shows the number of home-schooled students has surged by 74 percent over the past eight years, to 1.5 million. "As a ...