The lawyer for a former Frederick kindergarten teacher says his client is innocent of charges he sexually abused a student last school year.

Police say they have arrested a man in the beating death of a pastor in his South Carolina home.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like many liberals, seems afflicted by Sixties Nostalgia Syndrome, a longing for the high drama and moral clarity of the civil rights era.

Anti-oilpatch activist Wiebo Ludwig says there are innocent explanations for the articles police seized from his farm in northwestern Alberta in a recent raid.

Under the bill, tougher eligibility requirements would be phased in by 2014. A student who loses the grant because of low grades would not be allowed to reapply.