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Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor
Andover, MN, United States (AHN) – Two national civil rights groups are planning on suing the Anoka-Hennepin school district if school officials don’t properly address anti-gay harassment. The Southern Poverty Law Center and National Center for Lesbian Rights say they have proof that students in the district have faced harassment for being gay or perceived as gay and that harassment violates federal law. Lawyers for the two civil rights groups which sued the district earlier this year in a separate case sent a letter Tuesday to Anoka-Hennepin superintendent Dennis Carlson warning of possible legal action. According to the letter the two [...] Continue Reading…

John Nestor – AHN Sports Correspondent
Indianapolis, IN, United States (AHN Sports) – According to numerous reports, the NFL is canceling next month’s rookie symposium in Canton, Ohio. League officials are scheduled to officially inform teams of the cancellation during today’s NFL Spring Meeting in Indianapolis. The symposium is designed to teach rookies life lessons on dealing with football, finances and their new lifestyle. Those lessons will have to wait. Scheduled for June 26, the symposium was to been held in Canton, home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, for the first time. The league and the NFLPA are both waiting for a June 3 [...] Continue Reading…

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor
Honolulu, HI, United States (AHN) – A shooting at a Hawaii middle school on Monday ended with one student injured. According to KITV, a 14-year-old was showing a gun to his friends at Highlands Intermediate School when one student brushed the weapon away with his hand, causing the gun to go off. The bullet went through a student’s jacket, ricocheted off a wall and grazed another student’s hand and leg. Only one student was injured, and the teen who brought the weapon was taken into police custody. The gun, a .45 caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol, was registered to a [...] Continue Reading…

Springfield, Illinois – The Illinois State Library (ISL) announced on Friday, May 20, 2011 that Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White will disburse a nearly $1,000,000 grant awarded to the ISL to enhance broadband computer…
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Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News
Athens, Greece (AHN) – The Greek government is preparing tougher belt-tightening measures as it attempts to meet the terms of the country’s $110 billion (EUR 78 billion) bailout. Prime Minister George Papandreou rejected debt restructuring ahead of a Monday cabinet meeting to tackle austerity measures, which includes tax hikes and sale of government assets. Papandreou’s policy is in line with the European Central Bank stand that did not favor a debt restructuring for Greece. However, the drastic wage cut proposal may lead to more civil unrest among public employees. A study published on Sunday found that 80 percent of Greeks are not willing [...] Continue Reading…

Linda Young – AHN News Writer
Beijing, China (AHN) – Tight new controls on rare earth minerals were announced by China’s State Council on Thursday, which issued a national guideline for the industry. World-wide high demand for rare earth minerals, which are essential in high tech manufacturing of electronics, has caused rapid development of mining for the minerals, which has exposed numerous problems. Electronics that contain rare earths include everything from consumer electronics to hybrid car batteries and even weapons guidance systems. Controls include export quotas for rare earth minerals. The new controls mark the first time rare earths have been designated a national strategic reserve in [...] Continue Reading…

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent
Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to announce as soon as next week whether it will hear an appeal involving California’s controversial law that grants illegal immigrants in-state tuition at public universities. The immigrants say they could not afford college if they paid the higher out-of-state tuition rates. Opponents of the law say taxpayers should not have to subsidize lawbreakers like illegal immigrants. The controversy extends beyond California to 10 other states that grant reduced tuition to illegal immigrants. Out-of-state tuition can be triple in-state rates. Courts took up the case of Martinez [...] Continue Reading…

Linda Young – AHN News Writer
Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Initial jobless claims declined by 29,000 to 409,000 for the week ending May 14 compared to the previous week’s tally of 438,000 claims. That is still above the 400,000 mark. Analysts say first time unemployment compensation insurcance claims must drop below 400,000 and stay below that mark to signal the economy has turned around. However, the less volatile four-week moving average was up by 1,250 from the previous figure, increasing to 439,000 claims. The number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week ending April 30, the most recent week such data is [...] Continue Reading…

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor
Riverside, CA, United States (AHN) – A 10-year-old boy arrested for the murder of his father, a neo-Nazi leader, says he was abused. According to court documents, Jeff Hall, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, was abusing his family and his son feared his parents would divorce and he would have to choose which parent to live with. Paramedics were unable to revive the man and the boy and his siblings were taken into protective custody after being questioned by police. The fourth-grader, like his 9-year-old sister, knew where his parents stored the guns. The boy took a [...] Continue Reading…

John Nestor – AHN Sports Correspondent
new york, ny, United States (AHN Sports) – Count New York Giants defensive tackle Chris Canty among those who feel that there will be NFL football this fall. Canty for one feels that the labor impasse will be over soon enough and the season will get started when it is supposed to on Sept. 8. “[The labor dispute] will definitely be settled. There will be a football season,” Canty told the New York Post Tuesday at the 18th annual Gridiron Gala at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, where he and Jets fullback Tony Richardson received awards for their commitment to community service. [...] Continue Reading…