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The Chicago Fire Department says five students were burned — one seriously — after a flash explosion during a high school cooking class. Fire Department...

Despite increased security put in place after the massacre at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, there’s been no real reduction in...

It's really cold in Illinois this week. The forecast high at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for Monday was just 5 degrees. The predicted...

In some schools, students who cut in line at the cafeteria might be scolded or sent to a guidance counselor. In Wake County, N.C.,...

Five decades and $1 billion after an infamous racial episode made Little Rock, Ark., a national symbol of school segregation, the legal fight to...

Exterior view of San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, June 30, 2011. The school is one of the state schools...

In this Oct. 31, 2013 photo, vocational students learn domino strategies in a classroom in Kingston, Jamaica. A government program is teaching domino...

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The saying goes that politics is the art of addition. Even first time candidates for any elective office quickly realize that their circle of friends and family is not enough, that they need the support people unlike themselves if they are to have any hope of winning. It's elemental. That's what makes the Republican game plan (assuming there is ...