from the Washington Post, by Michael Alison Chandler Staff Writer Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Prince William County's top elected official asserted last month that an exodus of immigrant families after the county's crackdown on illegal immigration is saving the school system millions of dollars because it has to educate fewer students who are learning English as a second language. But Prince William school officials say that the departure of nearly 760 students this school year from the English for Speakers of Other Languages program has not brought a financial windfall to the school system, contrary to an estimate of $6 million in savings cited by Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chairman Corey A. Stewart (R-At Large).

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: May 7, 2008 Filed at 7:04 p.m. ET TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage. Clint Straatman denies Froylan Camelo's version of events but said he took the flag Monday because ''white kids'' might have hurt the 16-year-old. He said he put it in a garbage can because he had no place else to keep it.

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from the Los Angeles Times: Photographers whose high school water polo pictures wound up on gay Web sites won't be prosecuted.

The Orange County district attorney's office says a four-month investigation determined Scott Cornelius and Allen Rockwell didn't commit any crimes.

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The Boulevard at the Capital Centre, an open-air mall located in Prince George's County near the Largo Town Center Metro station, has enacted a parental escort policy requiring all youth aged 16 and younger be escorted after 9 PM as a reaction to multiple violent crimes at the location over the past few years.