by Beth Lawrence | Jun 10, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON – With many presidential candidates pushing the idea of debt-free college to the forefront of a national debate, a quieter conversation is taking place in the background: what to do for those who are already deep in student loan debt. At an announcement...
by Beth Lawrence | Jun 9, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service evacuated the White House Briefing Room Tuesday afternoon after a bomb threat was called in to Washington police. The evacuation came in the middle of a televised press briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest. The North Lawn...
by Beth Lawrence | Jun 2, 2015 | Education
Vanya Shivashankar, a a favorite for the spelling bee title, has won the national spelling bee. However, the judges ran out of words on their championship word list, so the five-time competitor has to share her title with a co-champion, Gokul Venkatachalam. Published...
by Beth Lawrence | May 29, 2015 | Education
OXON HILL, Md. — Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe swept into the championship round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday as one of 10 competitors for the top honor. In the semifinals, Vanya, 13, spelled “consommé,” a type of clear soup, and “mediobrome,”...
by Beth Lawrence | May 21, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the early morning of Oct. 12, 1944, Navy pilot Ensign Clarence Borley had just shot down his fifth Japanese aircraft over the island of Formosa — present-day Taiwan — when anti-aircraft fire forced him to ditch his F6F Hellcat into the Pacific....
