Cumberland Academy Elementary parents were shocked when they found out, some students were not allowed to participate in the end of the year activities because their parents owed the school money.
In a victory for home cooks across Texas, the Legislature has expanded the state's definition of the word "pickle," allowing for pickled beets, carrots and other produce to be easily sold at farmers' markets alongside pickled cucumbers.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The old wooden ship hull didn't look like much when researchers first saw it: just broken, waterlogged boards and a few pieces of rusted metal, all stuck in the muddy bottom of a bug-infested Alabama bayou where an alligator and poisonous water moccasins swam nearby. Months later, after hundreds of hours of study and testing, historians say the wreck is the Clotilda , the last ship known to transport African captives to the American South for enslavement.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A years-long lawsuit between Michael Jackson's estate and one of the superstar's former managers has been settled, ending one of the final legal fights over the King of Pop's assets. The confidential settlement announced Thursday with Tohme R. Tohme, Jackson's manager in the last year of his life, was reached after a trial had been underway for five days. It comes a month short of the 10th anniversary of Jackson's death.
Police said that fixing the school's super-glued locks will cost more than $4,000 and some of the school's historic hardwood floors may be damaged beyond repair from the vegetable oil that was poured on them.
