Many high schools have banished their old "vo-tech" programs for students not aiming for college. Now the education world is embracing the marriage of classrooms with partners in business and industry — both sides spurred by economic realities.

By Joe Robertson

McClatchy Newspapers

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —

Peggy…

U.S. commentator attracts crowd of some 3,000 people at Caesarea amphitheater; show includes guest speakers historian David Barton, Efrat founder Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and author Mike Evans.

	U.S. commentator Glenn Beck appearing in Caesarea on Sunday August 21, 2011.
	Photo by: Hagai…

Once the stuff of science fiction and high-tech crime fighting, facial recognition technology has become one of the newest tools in marketing, even though privacy concerns abound.

NEC employee Olga Foster demonstrates a facial recognition system's ability to estimate her age, gender and race. NEC makes display screens used for facial recognition-driven ads. (NEC Corp. /…

Take a virtual tour of New York on Google Maps and some blurry images appear.

By JUSTIN PRITCHARD

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.

Applications are up nearly 50 percent over a decade ago as people with disabilities lose their jobs and can't find new ones in an economy that has shed nearly 7 million jobs.

The…

Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:05pm EDT

* Latest in a series of mishaps for space industry

* $265 mln orbiter described as Europe's most powerful ever

(Updates with cost of satellite, expert opinion)…

Chinese websurfers are seen at an Internet cafe…

ATLANTA (AP) — Two children and a young man have died this summer from a brain-eating amoeba that…

At the World Trade Center site, self-styled tour guide Harry John Roland entertains visitors as he shares his knowledge about details of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Harry John Roland, also known as the "World Trade Center man," shares his message with a captive audience in Lower Manhattan. (Carolyn Cole,…

First, they brought you a tea party coloring book. Now the publisher is back with more fun for the whole family.

Just in time for the 10th anniversary of…

Civil libertarian groups have backed away from threats to legally challenge the Bay Area Rapid Transit system's wireless service shutdown last week after the agency refused a repeat amid rush-hour protests that shuttered four San Francisco stations.

By PAUL ELIAS

Associated Press

Civil libertarian groups have backed…

A deputy police chief and a sergeant in Renton have been demoted over a Web cartoon ridiculing city jail staff. Posted on YouTube in January, the video made fun of jail policies and staff and featured a clown refusing to admit into jail a drunken suspect brought in by police.

By Jeff Hodson

Seattle Times staff…

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Jamel Mims, a Fresh Prep instructor, working with students at Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics.

By SHARON OTTERMAN…

Photo of machine-made Shmura Matzo eaten during Passover week. Photo taken on April 12, 2006 by Yoninah

August 11, 2011

Reuters

A U.S. federal judge has ruled that an inmate in a New York jail does not have a constitutionally protected right to matzah and grape juice.

Christopher Henry, who was charged with first-degree sodomy, claimed permanent trauma and malnourishment and requested nearly $10 billion in damages for what he…

(Reuters) - Britain is considering disrupting online social networking such as Blackberry Messenger and Twitter during civil unrest, Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday, a move…