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  • All-day kindergarten funding may be common ground
    While the Kansas legislature and local school districts may be at odds over school funding, there may be common ground in a proposal to fund full-day…
  • HPPR Christmas Programming
    Following 37 years of tradition, High Plains Public Radio again offers listeners across the High Plains an entire schedule of wonderful Christmas…
  • Is A 500-Year-Old German Beer Law Heritage Worth Honoring?
    A German brewers association is seeking UNESCO World Heritage status for a 500-year-old law that dictates how to make beer. The brewers argue that the law ensures purity in German beers. But others say the law is from a bygone era.
  • Manny Cardenas, seen here with his 5-year-old daughter Zoe, has earned $16 an hour as a part-time security guard at Google.
    What It's Like To Live On Low Pay In A Land Of Plenty
    Employees at Silicon Valley companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook are highly paid and enjoy a wide range of perks on the job. The security guards who watch over their workplaces earn around $16 an hour, a tough wage to get by on in the high-priced San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Food banks have become a primary source of nutrition for rural farmworker communities in the Central Valley.
    Amid Fields Of Plenty, A Farmworker's Wife Struggles To Feed Her Family
    Many can't afford to buy the fresh produce that grows all around them, and some areas that grow enormous amounts of produce are among the highest in the nation when it comes to food insecurity.
  • High school senior Pat Cordova-Goff would be allowed to use the girls' bathroom under a California law slated to go into effect next year. The law's critics call it the "co-ed bathroom bill."
    Religious Groups Challenge Calif. Transgender Law Over Privacy
    Opponents of a new California law that aims to accommodate transgender students say they've gathered enough signatures to try to overturn it on next year's ballot. The law allows transgender students to use the bathrooms and join the sports teams that match their gender identity.
  • Want More Holiday Music? Ring Up Dial-A-Carol
    Missing the Christmas spirit? Dial-a-Carol may help you get into the holiday mood.
  • University police, FBI agents and Cambridge, Mass., officers all responded on Monday when Harvard received messages claiming that bombs had been planted in four buildings. None were found and a student has been charged in the hoax. he allegedly wanted to avoid taking a test.
    Student Is Charged In Harvard Bomb Scare
    Four buildings were evacuated and tensions were high at the university on Monday after officials received messages about "shrapnel bombs." With exams scheduled for that day, many thought that perhaps a nervous student was trying to avoid taking a test. The FBI alleges that's what happened.
  • Ronnie Biggs, showing off his notoriety in 1994 while he was living in Brazil.
    'Great Train Robber' Ronnie Biggs Dies; Was Famed Fugitive
    In 1963, a gang robbed the Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail Train. They got away with millions, but were caught and put in prison. Biggs, though, escaped and spent 36 years living openly in Brazil. The self-styled "lovable rogue" returned to the U.K. in 2001 and spent 8 more years in prison. He was 84.
  • Sept. 25: Police detain a gay rights activist in Moscow. The poster, adorned with Olympic rings, reads "Homophobia is the shame of Russia!"
    Gays In U.S. Olympic Delegation Will Send Message To Russia
    Tennis great Billie Jean King and ice hockey medalist Caitlin Cahow will be going to the games. President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will not be. LGBT advocates say the White House has made clear its displeasure with Russian policies toward gays and others.
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