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Could Tobacco Be the Next Biofuel?

Could Tobacco Be the Next Biofuel?

Biofuel researchers at UC Berkeley may keep the tobacco industry from going up in smoke. Scientists are engineering tobacco plants to produce oils that can serve as biofuels to power airplanes, cars, trucks and other machines. (May 17)

This undated publicity photo released by courtesy of Cinedigm shows Michael Angarano, left, as Jason Sherwood and Julianne Moore as Linda Sinclare in the film, "The English Teacher," directed by Craig Zisk. (AP Photo/Cinedigm, Nicole Rivelli)

Review: No passing grade for 'English Teacher'

Craig Zisk moves from TV to big screen with the story of a teacher played by Julianne Moore who sleeps with a former student. Zisk has directed or produced episodes of standout TV comedies from "The Larry Sanders Show" through "Parks and Recreation." But those series boasted some of the ...

FILE--In this photo taken on Dec. 14, 2012, Alissa Parker grieves with her husband, Robbie, as they leave the firehouse staging area after receiving word that their daughter was one of the 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook School shooting in Newtown, Conn. The moment Alissa Parker learned of a shooting at her daughter's school, she suddenly regretted not pointing out what she had seen as security gaps at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Parker, whose 6-year-old daughter Emilie was among 20 first-graders killed in the Dec. 14 massacre, had thought security could have been tighter, although she never could have guessed it would be tested by a gunman with a military-style, semi-automatic rifle. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Newtown parents seek more focus on school security

The moment Alissa Parker learned of a shooting at her daughter's school, she suddenly regretted not pointing out what she had seen as security gaps at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Parker, whose 6-year-old daughter Emilie was among 20 first-graders killed in the Dec. 14 massacre, had thought security could have ...

This undated image provided by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows a 2014 Subaru Forester during a small overlap frontal crash test. Subaru's 2014 Forester is one of only two of 13 small SUVs that are getting passing grades in front-end crash tests done by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Popular models such as the Honda CR-V, Ford Escape and Jeep Wrangler received only "marginal" or "poor" ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. (AP Photo/he Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)

Only 2 of 13 small SUVs do well in crash tests

Only two of 13 small SUVs performed well in front-end crash tests done by an insurance industry group, with several popular models faring poorly in the evaluations. Subaru's 2014 Forester was the only vehicle to get the top "good" rating in the results released Thursday. The 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport ...

House advances student loan fix

The days of fixed-rate student loans could be coming to a close, with House Republicans on Thursday advancing a proposal that would link rates to financial markets. The GOP-led House Education and the Workforce Committee sent to the full House a bill that would offer some students a better deal ...

Dubuque students may miss planned trip to New York

Dozens of students, parents and staff from a Dubuque high school are unsure what to do after a Cedar Rapids travel agency closed without making arrangements for a planned trip to New York despite about $30,000 in advance payments. The Telegraph Herald reported Thursday (http://bit.ly/10StwKM ) that an attorney representing ...

2nd-grader calls 911 after waking in empty school

A central Indiana school district is reviewing how a sleeping second-grader could have been left alone in a room for hours after school had let out. Joyce Larry said her 8-year-old son, Damarion, was left alone in a room Tuesday afternoon at Valley Grove Elementary School in Anderson after he ...

Families arrive at the school after a man committed suicide at a private Catholic school in central Paris by shooting himself in the head, Thursday, May, 16, 2013. The shooting took place shortly before noon as children were leaving the school premises for the lunch break, according to two police officials. Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe's office said in a statement that a dozen children witnessed the shooting.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

Man shoots himself in head at Paris school

A dozen students and a teacher saw a man kill himself with a shot in the head at a private Catholic school on Thursday, Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe said. The mayor said his thoughts were with "all the little Parisians who were present, their parents and all the educational community." ...

Spokane schools expand all-day kindergarten

The Spokane Public School's board decided Wednesday to offer full-day kindergarten in all 34 elementary school schools this fall. The Spokesman-Review reports (http://bit.ly/11H1Qdq) the decision will expand full-day kindergarten to 19 schools from 15 schools currently. It will require nearly $4 million — more than twice the available funding. The ...

In this March 22, 2013 photo, guitarists Kordae Maples, from left, Christian Nelson and Dallas Dodson rehearse a song at Stax Music Academy in Memphis, Tenn. The Stax Music Academy is an after-school program where teenagers from some of Memphis’ poorest neighborhoods learn how to dance, sing and play instruments. The academy’s students play annual shows in Memphis and have toured to Washington, Italy and Australia, helping spread the soulful “Memphis Sound.” (AP Photos/Adrian Sainz)

Stax's past influences future musicians in Memphis

One by one the teenage singers practice the opening lines to "Boogie Wonderland," a disco-funk hit from an era before they were born, as dancers work on hip-swinging moves that require perfect choreography. In another room, young musicians play the same song over and over on guitar, piano and drums, ...

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