Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings has died in a car accident in Los Angeles.
Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings, whose unflinching reporting ended the career of a top American army general, died early Tuesday in a car accident in Los Angeles, his employer and family said.
Tuesday, June 18 2013 11:48 PM EDT2013-06-19 03:48:04 GMT
The Illinois State Police say both officers involved in a crash with a semi on I-57 have been treated and released from the hospital.
The Illinois State Police say both officers involved in a crash with a semi on I-57 have been treated and released from the hospital.
WEST FRANKFORT, IL (KFVS) -
Mrs. Kerley, a seventh grade science teacher, begins each class period with a question for her students at West Frankfort.
Questions are taken from the ISAT practice test to better prepare them for when that exam hits their desk.
"They'll tell me, Mrs. Kerley, I remember seeing that question, we did that on the question of the day," says Kerley.
But for her students, those questions may get a little trickier to solve.
As the state raises the standards for ISATS, they'll align better with common core state standards, which will in turn give teachers an earlier indicator of where a student might need a little extra help.
This puts a little more stress on educators.
"It causes some confusion for professionals as to which direction we should go in preparation for that," says Kerley.
Teachers say the higher expectations of the new scores will cause a downward shift in the number of students who meet or exceed standards.
But according to principal Charley Cass, the change will better prepare students for the future.
"There is going to be some transition, some gap there that will have to addressed, if you want to test well when the ISATS come around," says Cass.
Tuesday, June 18 2013 4:20 PM EDT2013-06-18 20:20:32 GMT
An 11 year old Columbus girl wanted to do something special to support our troops fighting overseas, so she wrote a letter to a soldier in Afghanistan.
An 11 year old Columbus girl wanted to do something special to support our troops fighting overseas, so she wrote a letter to a soldier in Afghanistan. On Father's Day, she found out just how much that simple gesture meant to the sergeant who received it.
Tuesday, June 18 2013 9:23 AM EDT2013-06-18 13:23:30 GMT
A 5-year-old girl set up a lemonade stand across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church compound, and now the group is targeting her. Jayden Sink raised nearly $200 on Friday while she sold lemonade
A 5-year-old girl set up a lemonade stand across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church compound, and now the group is targeting her.
Tuesday, June 18 2013 8:22 PM EDT2013-06-19 00:22:22 GMT
Police have identified two men accused of stealing thousands of pounds of watermelons from local grocery stores. Beaverton police were called out to the WinCo Foods store on Cedar Hills Boulevard the
Police have identified two men accused of stealing thousands of pounds of watermelons from local WinCo Foods stores.
A mentally disabled woman and her young child were enslaved for more than a year, denied food and threatened with a pet python and pit bills, and the woman was beaten and forced to get pain medication for her...
A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people "had been mean to her" - then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along...
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