Archive for January, 2011
Finding Minnesota: Alexandria Aces Bring Fans To Their Feet
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (WCCO) — While many kids spend hours practicing for sports, music or drama teams, one young Minnesota group has a different assignment. They need to practice spinning a ball on their finger, while doing somersaults — or riding a skateboard. The Alexandria Aces are grade school-aged kids who bring crowds of basketball fans [...]
1 Killed In Head-On Accident In Windom
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Minnesota State Patrol said one person died in a head-on accident with a semi truck following a police chase in Windom, Minn. Police said just after 8 p.m. Monday, they were pursuing a driver in a 2011 Sentra who was heading west on Highway 62. While fleeing, the driver hit a [...]
Fears over teacher shortages following training slump
Fewer students are applying to train as secondary school teachers, figures show. Applications to teach some subjects have slumped by almost 40 per cent this year, it was disclosed, prompting claims of looming staff shortages. Experts blamed anxiety over public sector cuts combined with uncertainty over the future of teacher training courses. It is also [...]
California Parole May Be Broken, But Federal Courts Cannot Fix It
By some curious coincidence, at about the same time that Jonathan Simon was explaining in his Barrock Lecture yesterday that parole has effectively become unavailable in California in homicide cases, the United States Supreme Court was overturning a pair of Ninth Circuit decisions that would have established a basis for federal-court review of parole denials. The [...]