Earthquake shook Oxford school administrators into move

OXFORD – It took an earthquake to finally shake the school administration employees out of their former offices at 5 Sigourney St.

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ACLU Defends Christian Students’ Ten Commandments Posters (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork – On Feb. 23, school officials at Floyd County High School in Virginia stripped copies of the Ten Commandments from students’ personally assigned locker doors.

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U.S. town demolished over lead contamination (Reuters)

Reuters – Most of its residents left, the school closed, the city government was disbanded and starting this week nearly every commercial building in Picher, Oklahoma, will be demolished.

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Gambling nun accused of embezzling $850,000 (Reuters)

Reuters – A Catholic nun with a reputation for gambling trips to Atlantic City was accused of embezzling more than $850,000 from a college where she oversaw the school’s finances, officials said on Friday.

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Kids spot mountain lion 200 feet from bus stop (AP)

AP – A group of children waiting for their school bus Wednesday morning got a shock when they spotted a mountain lion in a field just 200 feet from their stop along a rural route.

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Squirrel in transformer puts Ohio school on alert (AP)

AP – Police said a lock-down at an Ohio high school resulted from an errant squirrel. Brookhaven High School in Columbus went on alert shortly after 8 a.m. Monday — about a half-hour into the school day — because of reports that shots had been fired in the area.

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Berlin museum offers night on a magic mushroom (Reuters)

Reuters – Visitors to Berlin’s Museum for Contemporary Art can book themselves a night in an installation created by artist Carsten Hoeller at a cost of 1,000 euros (889.6 pounds) as of November 5.

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Maine teen saved after being pinned under car (AP)

AP – A high school football team in Maine came up with a big win by rescuing a teammate who was trapped under a car in the school parking lot. Officials said John Gerry was riding on the hood of a teammate’s car when he tripped and fell to the ground Friday, with one of the tires ending up on his back.

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Boy, 5, wanders into wrong class, prompts lockdown (AP)

AP – A 5-year-old Vancouver, Wash., kindergarten student who wandered into the wrong classroom set off a school lockdown before he was located Monday. Vancouver police said Braiden Gonzalez arrived at Walnut Grove Elementary on the school bus as usual. The problem started when he played outside with some first-graders and then followed them into their classroom.

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Ala. man gets lost school ring back after 14 years (AP)

AP – Thanks to his mail carrier, an Alabama man has his class ring back — 14 years after he lost it. Michael Amberson hadn’t seen his Gadsden High School class ring since he took it off to wash his hands at his dorm in 1996, when he was a freshman in college.

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