Education

Marines to face random blood-alcohol tests

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Marines and sailors will be subject to random blood-alcohol tests twice a year in what is billed as the toughest anti-drinking policy in the U.S. military. The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/U6d6Xe ) reports Monday that any Marine or sailor with a blood-alcohol level of 0.01

VP says Chavez up, walking; doubts persist

By ALEXANDRA OLSONAssociated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Vice President Nicolas Maduro surprised Venezuelans with a Christmas Eve announcement that President Hugo Chavez is up and walking two weeks after cancer surgery in Cuba, but the news did little to ease uncertainty surrounding the leader

Parents hesitant about NRA armed schools proposal

By CHRISTINE ARMARIOAP Education Writer MIAMI (AP) - The nation's largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for the placement of an armed police officer in every school, but parents and educators questioned how safe such a move would keep kids, whether it would be economically feasible and how it

Gun control debate heating up in statehouses

By BILL BARROWAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) - As President Barack Obama urges tighter federal gun laws, state legislators around the country have responded to the Connecticut school shooting with a flurry of their own ideas that are likely to produce fights over gun control in their upcoming