The data, now available on www.recovery.gov, indicate that approximately 400,000 jobs have been retained or created through the U.S. Department of
Education ARRA grants.
House Democratic leaders unveiled a sweeping health care reform bill Thursday that includes a more moderate version of the government-run public health insurance option.
The bill -- a combination of versions passed by three House committees -- includes what is termed a "negotiated rate" public option. It will cost $894 billion over 10 years and extend insurance coverage to 36 million Americans, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office.
Bonney Lake police are warning high school students to be wary of a man who might have a developmental disability and a fixation with high school athletes.
The warning came after a Bonney Lake High School football player was lured to the public library Monday by the man, who’d said he was going to help the player with a college term paper interview, police reported Tuesday.
During the meeting, the man, who said his name was Dale, began acting strangely and made the student suspicious, police said. When the student decided to leave, the man jumped on the student’s back and asked for a piggy back ride, police said.
The student fled after the man gave him a package that contained “odd amounts of money,” police said.
Police said they have identified the man, who is believed to have had similar encounters with high school students across the state.
Police said they have probable cause to arrest the man on suspicion of simple assault in connection with the piggy back ride and were seeking a warrant for his arrest, police spokesman Tony Rice said.
Papua New Guinea police are hunting the leader of a sex cult that promised villagers a bumper banana harvest if they engaged in public sex.
The alert was raised after a villager from Yamina in Morobe province walked 12 hours to the nearest town to report the cult's activities.
He told police the cult's leader and his followers have been using threats of violence to force people to have sex in public for the past four months.
The Post Courier reports villagers had been promised their banana harvest would increase every time they fornicated publicly.
Three police officers trekked into the village over the weekend but the leader, identified as Thomas Peli, was able to escape into the bush.
Police reinforcements are being sent to the area.
Wichita, KS - A tender moment in a trash bin went all wrong for a couple who found themselves being held up at pocket knifepoint.
Wichita police say two 44-year-olds had climbed into a Dumpster to be alone just after 6 p.m. Saturday when two men interrupted them and demanded their belongings.
Officers say the man and woman were engaged in "an intimate moment" when they were robbed of their shoes, jewelry and the man's wallet.
Police say one of the robbers was a 64-year-old man who egged his 59-year-old companion on during the robbery.
The suspects were found a short time later and the stolen property was returned.
RICHLAND COUNTY -- A man who was involved in a robbery died after he spray-painted his face to conceal his identity, police said.
Richland County Sheriff's Department deputies say 24-year-old Thomas James began having trouble breathing shortly after the crime, then died. The exact cause of his death has not been released.
Deputies say James, with the help of 23-year-old Michael Gregory Thomas, robbed a Sprint PCS store.
According to authorities, the suspects stole wallets, purses and credit cards from five employees of the store, after demanding money from them at gunpoint.
Investigators say James and Thomas ordered the employees to stay inside a bathroom while the suspects left the store.
Employees were able to identify Thomas as a suspect in the incident.
Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border.
Agreements between Detroit hospitals and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for heart, imaging tests, bariatric and other services provide access to some services not immediately available in the province, said ministry spokesman David Jensen.
The agreements show how a country with a national care system copes with demand for care with U.S. partnerships, rather than building new facilities.
A CENTURIES-old festival in which residents from rival Indian villages throw stones at each other - often leaving people dead or injured - has been banned.
The annual Gotmar festival in an impoverished central region of the country involved teams competing to capture a tree placed in a river running between two villages as crowds pelted rocks and pebbles across the divide.
The origin of the custom is unclear, but many locals in Madhya Pradesh state believe it developed from the tale of two young lovers who lived on either side of the river and wanted to elope together.
As they tried to escape, residents of the two villages started throwing stones at each other and killed the couple, according to folklore.
In last year's clash between Saargaon and Pandhurhna, one person was reported killed and more than 400 injured.
Attempts to replace the stones with rubber balls in 2001 and 2002 failed as villagers refused to use them.
FITCHBURG, Mass. -- A local man is accused of carrying out a drive-thru attack.
Police said John Ausiello, 51, climbed through the drive-thru window of the Kimball Street McDonald's and attacked two employees with a box cutter.
"At the time the personnel inside the McDonalds were busy with other tasks and he gained entry without them knowing it and upon discovery there was a scuffle," said Glenn Fossa, of the Fitchburg Police Department.
Police said Ausiello cut the two employees with box cutter, tried to tie one up with his shoelaces, and then robbed the location of a small amount of cash.
It took Fitchburg and Massachusetts State Police only 30 minutes to locate Ausiello in one to two feet of water in the Nashua River.
