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Health, safety primary concerns in school's decision to drug-test
The Orlando Sentinel's Front Burner columns on Friday addressing drug testing in schools illustrate that there are issues about which honest people can disagree in good faith. Harold J. Krent, dean and professor of law at Chicago-Kent law school, and...Tags: Students, Lifestyle and Leisure, Family, Substance Abuse, Crime, Law and Justice
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Former Osceola Principal David Groover gets one year in prison on drug conviction
KISSIMMEE — David Groover, formerly principal of Partin Settlement Elementary School, must serve a year in prison following his guilty plea and sentencing Monday for dealing drugs, court records show. The once widely popular educator admitted to...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, University of Central Florida, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Authorities to discuss warning signs of meth labs at community event
Daily American Staff WriterMethamphetamine labs are being found more in Somerset County than in previous years, said Cpl. Dennis Ulery, a supervisor on the Pennsylvania State Police Clandestine Lab Response Team. "Last year we had a 40 percent increase statewide and we are on pace...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Symptoms, Methamphetamine (drug), Drug Use
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Valley Police Beat: Gun reported stolen, later found
EL CENTRO — A handgun was initially reported stolen out of a car while its owner was at the American Legion, according to El Centro Police Department logs. The report was taken early Saturday morning. The reporting party called back and said he...Tags: American Legion, Lifestyle and Leisure, Theft, Marijuana Use, The Salvation Army
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Random testing can send students a harmful message
There is no place for drugs in school, and Lake Highland Preparatory, as a private school, has every legal right to subject its students to random drug testing. Although courts have held that random drug testing in public schools violates the Fourth...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, Lifestyle and Leisure, Justice and Rights, Illinois Institute of Technology, Separation of Church and State
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Protect kids from drugs -- by any means necessary
Protecting our kids is a parent's primary responsibility. I've yet to meet an adult who would disagree that parents or other responsible adults are in the first position to protect, provide and care for our youth. So the question becomes, how far do...
Tags: Students, Lifestyle and Leisure, Substance Abuse, Drug Use, Education
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The Great Debate
While marijuana use is still illegal under federal law, the general direction of state laws regarding marijuana is clearly moving in the direction of leniency. Two states in November, Colorado and Washington, legalized it for recreational purposes....
Tags: Muscle Cramps and Spasms, Lifestyle and Leisure, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Breast Cancer, Symptoms
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Lake Highland fights drugs with tests
Most schools have a drug problem, and private schools are no different. Private schools often get a worse rap because kids with money can buy the really potent stuff. Lake Highland Preparatory isn't being specific about student drug use other than...
Tags: Students, Lifestyle and Leisure, U.S. Supreme Court, Education, Drug Use
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Gov. Tom Corbett says failed drug tests keeping people from working
Capitol IdeasYo! Gov. Tom Corbett is catching a ton of flak across the state and nation for saying employers are having trouble finding qualified workers because so many fail drug tests. But is Corbett wrong? Democrats think he is – but...... -
Athletes only too happy to be 'lab rats'
After discovering that a promising new drug caused multiple types of cancer in lab animals, the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline stopped developing the compound. But the failed experimental drug, called GW501516, is making a comeback in another...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Breast Cancer, Crime, Law and Justice, Drug Use, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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Lake Highland Prep will drug-test students
Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando plans to begin drug-testing all of its students in grades seven through 12 in the fall, school officials have told parents. "We're convinced this will give us a safer, drug-free environment," said school...
Tags: Students, Lifestyle and Leisure, Heroin, Education, Drug Use
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Corbett says drug use costing jobs
HARRISBURG — When Gov. Tom Corbett took office in 2010, he inherited a $4 billion deficit that he plugged with massive cuts to public schools, universities and human services programs while leaving the prisons budget untouched and not raising taxes....
Tags: Government, Unemployment Benefits, Lifestyle and Leisure, Employment, Unemployment
May 15, 2013
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May 18, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 5, 2013
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May 3, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 21, 2013
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May 1, 2013
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May 1, 2013
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