by Emily Hoerner | Jul 27, 2015 | Health
WASHINGTON — A growing number of Texans are seeking treatment for methamphetamine addiction, reversing a downward trend in abuse in the state since a 2006 federal law banned over-the-counter sales of medicine containing the synthetic drug pseudoephedrine. Last year...
by Emily Hoerner | Jul 21, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — Literary deserts, places where children and parents lack access to quality books, are prevalent in low-income urban neighborhoods across the United States. And these book-dry neighborhoods and homes can negatively impact children’s literacy....
by Emily Hoerner | Jul 15, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON – Teachers’ union leaders in upstate New York say they hope the U.S. Senate’s No Child Left Behind reauthorization will send a message to the state legislature about measuring standardized testing. The Senate bill, renamed the Every Child Achieves Act,...
by Emily Hoerner | Jul 7, 2015 | National Security
ARLINGTON, Va. – A missing U.S. soldier from the Korean War, whose remains were identified in December, was buried 64 years after his death with full military honors at Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery Monday. Army Sgt. Joseph Snock, of Apollo,...
by Emily Hoerner | Jul 6, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — When the time came for Frederick resident Anne Sechler to send her daughter off to kindergarten in the fall of 2013, she faced a difficult choice. “The neighborhood that we live in, though it’s a decent neighborhood, is districted for a school that...
