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School websites latest target for advertisers

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:47:05 -0400

By MARY NIEDERBERGER - With funding tight, expenses ever increasing and limits set on how high taxes can be raised, school leaders find themselves looking for new ways to raise revenues.

Venezuela: US officials get access to American

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:53:06 -0400

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's government has granted U.S. diplomats access to a California man who is being held while he awaits trial on charges of espionage and fomenting unrest.

Family: No US access to man held in 'nightmare'

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:20:20 -0400

CARACAS, Venezuela - U.S. diplomats have been given no access to a California man held in Venezuela for nearly two weeks in what his family on Monday called a "nightmare" that unfolded after he was accused of being a spy fomenting postelection unrest.

Basu: Conspiracy theories about the Boston bombings

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:24:41 -0400

As you might expect, the parents of the brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombings say their sons were innocent and framed by the U.S. government. - As you might not expect, a Florida communications professor is saying the same thing. So are a host of U.S. websites, which depict the bombings as one big government conspiracy and offer distorted evidence to prove it.

Murdock: U.S.-Mexican border welcomes terrorists

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:37:34 -0400

NEW YORK - By DEROY MURDOCK