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Parents, teachers and students will gather Saturday at Washington Elementary School to mark the closing of the campus and its transformation into the Alameda Unified School District's newest magnet school.

More than 3.5 million skin cancers in over two million people are diagnosed annually in the United States.A To combat the problem, the National Council has referred to May 25, 2012, as "Don't Fry Day," in which they advise simple and easy measures to avoiding the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation rays: *A using the proper PH balanced sunscreen *A ... (more)

Teacher Michelle Hofstetter, left, and third grader Naidely Estrada get their groove on at the dance station during Washington Elementary School's last day of school celebration Thursday morning at Housel Park.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar answers a question during a news conference on Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in Cheyenne, Wyo.

Washington a Interior Secretary Ken Salazar dedicated two new conservation areas in southern Utah on Monday, the same day Sen.

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