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(AP) — A federal program at Central Community College in Columbus is helping low-income, first-generation or disabled students remain in school. The Columbus Telegram (http://bit.ly/1njqEUd ) reports that TRIO is an organization through the U.S. Department of Education with programs designed to identify and help those from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve their educational and career goals. TRIO students take a free course designed to help them adapt to college life and teach them academic and life skills.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are slipping Monday as energy prices retreat from a rally late last week. Materials stocks slump as paper and packaging companies lose ground. Paper and packaging companies stumbled on concerns about product prices, which led to downgrades from several investment firms. Tyco makes fire suppression systems and Johnson Controls makes ventilation systems, auto seating and car batteries. While few deals have been announced in the first weeks of 2016, business technology... Читать дальше...

Fly-half Rhys Priestland's lack of Bath game time is an issue for Wales before Six Nations, says kicking coach Neil Jenkins.

Republican presidential frontrunner is being sued over a defunct university bearing his name

A star football player at the University of Illinois, Curtis Lovelace returned to his western Illinois hometown with a law degree, later serving as a prosecutor who held lawbreakers accountable and as the local school board president.

A star football player at the University of Illinois, Curtis Lovelace returned to his western Illinois hometown with a law degree, later serving as a prosecutor who held lawbreakers accountabl…

More than a thousand prison inmates sentenced as juveniles to life without parole can now challenge their sentences, the Supreme Court ruled Monday

The three inmates who busted out of the Orange County Jail "should be considered dangerous" and likely planned their escape for months.

Shkreli has become the public face of corporate greed after his company Turing hiked the price of Daraprim, the only approved drug for a rare and sometimes deadly parasitic infection, by 5,000 percent. [...] Shkreli has been deluged with criticism from patients, politicians and the media, with some labeling him the "most hated man in America." The committee will also hear testimony from Turing's chief commercial officer, Nancy Retzlaff, Valeant Pharmaceutical's interim CEO, Howard Schiller, and experts from government and the private sector. Читать дальше...

N.J. Gov. Chris Christie went off on a reporter Monday, defending his return to the campaign trail after a blizzard hit Jersey.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the fundamentals of the economy allow showing "cautious optimism" regarding the development of the situation in Russia.

The SCA judges last month described Oscar​'s testimony at his trial in 2014 as "untruthful".

MOSCOW (AP) — Irina Maracheva was stripped of her 800-meter silver medal from the 2012 European Championships in one of four doping cases announced Monday involving female Russian athletes.

RMT union says progress has been made but it remains in ‘dispute’ over night Tube

– All players are in excellent physical and mental shape for the cracker – The Eagles need at least a draw to progress – Guinea stopped Nigeria from reaching the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations finals The Super Eagles are battle-ready to pick all three points off Guinea’s Syli Nationale on Tuesday January 26 in order […]

The NFL saw a TV ratings increase in both time slots for Conference Championship Sunday. The early game, the Broncos’ win over the Patriots, saw a massive ratings number for what may have been the final chapter of the Peyton Manning–Tom Brady saga. According to Variety, the game drew a 31.8 overnight rating, a 9…

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The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) has petitioned President Jacob Zuma to secure the release of jailed AbaThembu king Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo.

A traditional healer has been jailed for 10 years for raping a 16-year-old girl who he claimed was posssessed by an evil spirit.

The Denver Broncos win over the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game brought in big ratings for CBS.

NEW ORLEANS — The salesman stood outside the prison bus, inviting people inside for a brief tour. Those who obliged marveled at the steel “containment” cages, the bullet-resistant windows and the high-tech onboard surveillance systems.  The price tag for such a vehicle? About $580,000.

European Commission wants to curb the influence of Moscow, the continent’s biggest supplier

Police in Coventry are criticised on social media for entering people's unlocked homes and tweeting photos, in an anti-burglary drive.

The State Department’s proposal to delay the release the last of Hillary Clinton’s official emails until February 29 — after the initial presidential primaries — would “cause grave, incurable harm,” attorneys for VICE News and journalist Jason Leopold told a federal judge Monday. Should Judge Rudolph Contreras accept the State Department’s new proposed timetable, they […]