Two Kamchatka Volcanoes Erupt Forcing Flight Diversions
Two volcanoes in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula Klyuchevskaya Sopka and Shiveluch erupted creating ash plumes up to 33 000 feet. Flights were diverted and the town of Ust Kamchatsk faced heavy ash with schools and businesses shutting as scientists warned ash could fall for days.
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Moscow
Russia
Kamchatka Peninsula
Klyuchevskaya Sopka
Eurasia
Shiveluch
Russian Emergency Situations Ministry
Kamchatka
Pacific Ocean
Sergei Senyukov
Rossiya 24
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
Kamchatkan Peninsula
Alaskan
FAA
Laura Brown
Tammy Jones
Ust- Kamchatsk
Ust-Kamchatsk
Regs Tighten Oversight of For-Profit Colleges
The Education Department issued rules to regulate for-profit colleges, aiming to curb deceptive recruiting and improve monitoring. The rules require graduation and employment data, debt and income reports, and notice of new programs with a July 2011 effective date. Senator Harkin hailed the move as closing loopholes and protecting students and taxpayers.
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Jordan Steffen
Washington Bureau
Washington
Department of Education
Congress
Education Department
Tom Harkin
Iowa
Senate
Harkin
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
Oklahoma ballot measure seeks to outlaw Islamic law in courts
Oklahoma voters ponder State Question 755 to bar use of Sharia in state courts amid debate over religious law in the judiciary. Supporters claim a legal threat exists. opponents call it a stigmatizing scare tactic aimed at Muslims.
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Oklahoma
Los Angeles Times
Rex Duncan
U.S
Europe
America
Saad Mohammed
Islamic Society of
Greater
Oklahoma City
Act! For America
Guy Rodgers
United States
Rodgers
Duncan
FarmVille rage leads to deadly shake of infant
Alexandra V. Tobias pleaded guilty to second degree murder in Florida for shaking her baby to death after crying interrupted her FarmVille game on Facebook. She admitted shaking the boy, smoking to compose herself, and shaking him again. Sentencing in December could fall within 25 to 50 years.
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Jacksonville, Fla
North Florida
Alexandra V. Tobias
The
Florida Times- Union
Associated Press
Letter Finds Way Home From World War II Mass Grave Site
A U S veteran recalls finding a letter and a drawing on Iwo Jima after the 1945 battle that killed thousands. The artifact traveled from Harvard graduate Hobbs to a Japanese health ministry and back to Matsuji Takekawa’s family, where it now rests on a family altar in Japan.
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Matsuji Takekawa
Hobbs
Japan
Volcanic
United States
U.S
Mount Suribachi
Harvard Business School
Marge
Brookline
Mass
Reiko Wada
Wada
Franklin Hobbs
Iwo Jima
Chie Takekawa
Tokyo
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