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Court documents show that prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a man accused of robbing and killing two North Carolina women in 2007 if he's convicted.

A North Carolina police officer has been wounded and a suspect killed during a confrontation after the officer responded to a burglary call.

A South Carolina prosecutor wasted no time telling the suspect in the killing of an 8-year-old that he was seeking the death penalty.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.Tennessee's state medical examiner said Tuesday that investigators have been hesitant to conclude that Steve McNair's girlfriend killed the NFL star and herself because she didn't appear to have a motive, but that murder-suicide is the most likely scenario.

A military trial has been delayed in the case of a North Carolina-based paratrooper who died after fellow soldiers subdued him at a bar.

Georgia could become the latest state to punish schools caught cheating on standardized tests, becoming another example of what some observers call an alarming trend of educators caving under the pressure to meet federal achievement standards.

A Fargo South High School senior this coming fall achieved a perfect score of 36 on the ACT college entrance exam.

As a freshman at Ohio State University , and the only black student on his floor, Sam Boakye was determined to get good grades - in part to make sure his white roommate had no basis for negative racial views.

The state Board of Education is expected to vote on whether to toss out standardized tests that were altered last summer after students submitted them.

Police in South Carolina say a father shot and killed his son after the two argued.

"Naval Academy Professor Challenges Rising Diversity," ran the headline in The Washington Post.

Sixty students are participating in the Idaho State University Upward Bound program's resident summer session learning the skills they need to be successful university-level students.

Fifty-two of the participants are high school students, the other eight are “bridge students,” who are graduating high school seniors who participated in the program, said Mike Echanis, director of TRiO Student Services at Idaho State University. The Upward Bound students arrived on campus June 8 and their session ends July 31.

Faculty and staff from Idaho State University saw their experiments rise into the sky at 5:30 a.m. EDT on the morning of June 26 with the successful launch of a NASA rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

In summer, experts say, teens often engage in high-risk activities due to a lack of structure and supervision.

The state Law Enforcement Division is investigating an armed robbery in Little River that ended with a man dead after a police chase, said Horry County police officials.

The "Personal Potential Index" is intended to complement GRE scores and letters of recommendation, and higher education officials expect it could become a common part of the graduate school admissions process.

Tiffany S. Ellis of Wilson, a graduate of Beddingfield High School, is the recipient of the John J. Harper Scholarship at Barton College.

State Superintendent Mike Flanagan, left, and Rockford Superintendent Michael Shibler.

The Perth Amboy Public Schools have achieved adequate yearly progress for two consecutive years, which means the district is no longer considered a district in need of improvement as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, district officials said.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine took a roomful of high school and middle school administrators on a trip in the way-back machine Wednesday morning to 50 years ago, when Queen Elizabeth II visited Williamsburg and Virginia had a dismal track record on education.