School chiefs agree handcuffs ban in Jackson, Mississippi

Source: BreakingNews.ie

26/05/2012 - 11:24:04 US public schools in Jackson, Mississippi, will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline. Mississippi’ ...
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Friday’s Three Stars: Devils head to Final; Brodeur, Kovalchuk the difference in Game 6

Source: Yahoo! Sports

Explore news, videos, and much more based on what your friends are reading and watching. Publish your own activity and retain full control. To get started, firstLogin with Facebook This time last year, Kovalchuk ...
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Mississippi school district agrees to not handcuff students to objects

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - The Jackson, Mississippi, school district has agreed to stop shackling students to fixed objects, after it was sued for handcuffing pupils to railings and poles at a school for troubled children, officials said on Friday. The S ...
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Attraction's a site for saur eyes

Source: Daily Express

A new family attraction featuring more than 30 animatronic dinosaurs opens this weekend on 20 acres of woods and grass in northern New Jersey. Field Station: Dinosaurs in Secaucus includes a base camp and four learning stations along ...
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Desoto County Aims to Stop Drunk Driving

Source: My Fox Memphis

Local listings from all over 80,000 websites. Desoto County, Ms - It happened in Jackson, Mississippi this month. Desoto County Sheriff Bill Rasco, Deputies Joel White, Shane Foster, Jessica Everest and Johnathan Bigham, were ...
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$200 million in funding for ultra high-speed Internet up for grabs

Source: BGR

The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project (Gig.U) and Gigabit Squared this week announced funding of $200 million for the nation’s first multi-community broadband gigabit deployment project. The funding will s ...
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The Desegregation of Airports in the American South

Source: AirSpace: Air and Space Museum

The fact that transportation was a segregated business in the American South for many decades of the twentieth century is well known. Many older African Americans who grew up in the South painfully remember the time when black passengers had to ...
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One Year In: Chef/Owner Wally Joe on Acre's First Year in Memphis

Source: Eater

What caused the delay? Well, we were very certain of the area that we wanted to be in and we looked at properties on this particular street. But it wasn't zoned for commercial restaurant use. So we had to go before the city and ...
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Daily Word: Do Your Life’s Work!! (R.I.P., Black Radio Pioneer Hal Jackson)

Source: All HipHop

Happy Thursday, my destined and determined! Welcome to the day that you finally stop playing around and do what you were put on this earth to do!! First and foremost, a moment of silence for New York Radio pioneer, Hal Jackson, who passe ...
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