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Nab a Fat Financial Aid Package to Pay for College 09/16/2014 12:00am • Heather McDonnell, associate dean of financial aid and admission at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, was shopping at the grocery store a few years ago when a man came up to her and appealed for mercy. A father who recognized McDonnell from a high school presentation she had given wan Back to school _ even in Texas immigration prison 09/15/2014 07:34pm • WILL WEISSERT Associated Press KARNES CITY, Texas (AP) -- In one classroom monitored by security cameras, third- and fourth-graders read in Spanish from a short story about mice.On an artificial turf soccer field in the courtyard, seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders play a raucous kickball game -- i Skin shocks used at school draw look from US 09/15/2014 07:06pm • JENNIFER C. KERR Associated Press CANTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Some cut themselves. Others slam their heads against walls or desks -- so hard that one girl detached both retinas and a young man triggered a stroke. Another pulled out all his teeth.Self-injury is one of the most difficult behaviors a US wealth gap putting the squeeze on state revenue 09/15/2014 04:52pm • JOSH BOAK AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Income inequality is taking a toll on state governments.The widening gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else has been matched by a slowdown in state tax revenue, according to a report being released Monday by Standard & Poor's.Even as i French lawmakers tackle tough new anti-terror bill 09/15/2014 09:42am • PARIS (AP) -- France's parliament is opening debate on a bill providing new tools to fight terrorism, including taking away passports of suspected would-be jihadi fighters and blocking Internet sites luring French to the battlefield.Debate on the bill opened Monday as France hosted a conference of m Coroner: Bitcoin exchange CEO committed suicide 09/15/2014 09:30am • SINGAPORE (AP) -- A Singapore Coroner's Court has found that the American CEO of a virtual currency exchange committed suicide earlier this year in Singapore because of work and personal issues.The death on Feb. 26 of 28-year-old Autumn Radtke triggered media interest because it occurred not long af Snowden: NSA collects mass data on New Zealanders 09/15/2014 07:28am • NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Former National Security Agency systems analyst turned leaker Edward Snowden said Monday that the NSA is collecting mass surveillance data on New Zealanders through its XKeyscore program and has set up a facility in the South Pacific nation Are You Suffering From Nature-Deficient Disorder? 09/15/2014 12:00am • My husband and I have three young boys -- ages 5, 10 and 12. As you can probably guess, there is a lot of wrestling, intense (and loud) games of competitive hide-and-go-seek, and "illegal" baseball games in our house. Their baseball games are illegal because I have banned this activity from indoor Correction: Treasure Hunter Fugitive story 09/14/2014 09:30pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- In a story Sept. 13 about a treasure hunter being sought as a fugitive, The Associated Press reported erroneously that bank wraps for $10,000 bills were found in his mansion after he failed to appear at a hearing. The bank wraps were for $10,000.A corrected version of the stor Cameron: Islamic State poses 'massive' security threat 09/14/2014 12:30pm • LONDON (AP) -- Britain's prime minister says Islamic State terrorists pose a "massive" security threat that cannot be ignored.David Cameron says the extremists who beheaded two American journalists and now a British aid worker "are not Muslims, they are monsters."He spoke after an emergency meeting France bristles as Netflix advances in Europe 09/14/2014 12:04pm • LOUISE DEWAST Associated Press PARIS (AP) -- Netflix is tapping into six new markets Monday hoping to gain a big subscriber base around Europe, but is facing a frosty welcome in France. Well-established French competitors are trying to head off a Netflix wave, the government wants oversight and the When sinkholes open, they can swallow fortunes 09/14/2014 10:30am • BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Solid ground isn't always a certainty. Sinkholes can lurk anywhere, beneath suburban homes, city streets or even football stadiums and museums.It's basic geology: Sinkholes open when soil collapses into large holes, caused by flowing water in US threatened Yahoo with huge fine over emails 09/14/2014 06:08am • PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Yahoo's free email service could have cost the company an extra quarter of a million dollars a day.The government called for the huge fine in 2008 if Yahoo didn't go along with an expansion of U.S. surveillance by surrendering online information, a step Obama: Combating Islamic State not US fight alone 09/14/2014 05:04am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is distinguishing the military campaign against Islamic State militants from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.He says the new fight must avoid what he calls mistakes of the past.Obama says more nations are joining a coalition against the extremists.In his we Friends, 86-years-old apart, reunite 09/14/2014 02:15am • WASHINGTON -- It warmed the hearts of the ordinarily cold Internet universe when a video of Emmett Rychner, 3, and Erling Kindem, 89, and their fruitful friendship, born out of a mutual love for fresh tomatoes, went viral. At the end of the touching online novella, it was reported that the two b