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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 2010
Page
2
The 2010 Iowa ACT report shows spring high school seniors averaged a composite score of 21.0, down from 21.1 the previous year and the lowest in five years. Yet 24 percent of ACT-tested students met all four college readiness benchmarks, up from 23 percent last year and 21 percent in 2006.
The Obama administration weighs loosening Cuba travel limits while keeping the embargo. Officials say the move would boost student educator and researcher visits after Havana freed political prisoners, with a decision possible before next week but potentially delayed by political concerns before the midterm elections.
Investigators say Shaquan Daley killed her two sons, aged 2 years and 18 months, by suffocating them with her hands and strapped their bodies into car seats before driving into the North Edisto River to cover up the crime. Orangeburg County officials describe the motive as the mother wanting to be free after a life of hardship. Coroner notes bruising on the older child suggesting a struggle.
A Virginia judge dismissed piracy charges against six Somali men accused of attacking the USS Ashland off Africa, ruling the government failed to prove acts on the high seas met the law of nations piracy definition. The order leaves seven other counts intact. a piracy conviction would have carried life.
Researchers from the University of South Florida report microscopic oil traces in a Florida Panhandle canyon and toxic plant plankton at depths of 900 to 3,300 feet. The findings suggest more oil remains in the Gulf than federal officials claim, with implications for the food web and lawsuits against BP.
Jurors deadlocked on all but one charge against former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, convicting him only of lying to federal agents. Prosecutors plan to retry on the remaining counts. Blagojevich showed no emotion as the verdict was read and vowed to appeal.
The CIA recovered two videotapes and one audiotape showing Ramzi Binalshibh's 2002 interrogation at a Moroccan run facility near Rabat. The tapes may illuminate foreign cooperation in detentions, U.S. interrogation practices, and potential obstacles to prosecutions, though they reportedly do not depict harsh treatment.
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