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Egypt crisis tests opposition ahead of key votes

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's latest political crisis over a disputed constitution is posing a difficult test for the mostly secular opposition: Can it maintain its new-found unity and achieve anything beyond bringing large crowds out into the streets to protest?

NAACP seeks to mount shakeup in US education

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By SUZANNE GAMBOAAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The NAACP is going on the offensive on education, deploying volunteers across the country in its biggest push for a public education overhaul since the nation's classrooms were ordered desegregated in 1954, the civil rights group said

Pearl Harbor survivor helps identify unknown dead

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By AUDREY McAVOYAssociated Press HONOLULU (AP) - Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater. And so he set out to restore names to the dead. Emory, a survivor of the attack, doggedly

ATTENTION SKIERS: Area Ski Resorts Opening This Weekend!

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

UPDATE: Schweitzer Mountain opens Friday. UPDATE: White Pass opens Friday. UPDATE: Mt. Spokane has confirmed that they will be open for business on Saturday! UPDATE: 49 Degrees North is open for business this season. UPDATE: Lookout Pass is open for business this season. WEATHER DETAILS:

Support Local Spokane Businesses TODAY With Complimentary Drinks, Appetizers, Raffle Tickets And A Chance To Win Gonzaga Basketball Tickets!

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

SPOKANE, Wash. - The Delta Gamma Sorority is putting on a philanthropic holiday shopping event on TODAY with over 20 of some of the most popular local businesses in Spokane. Businesses such as JigSaw, Cues, Anenome, Kizuri, Finders Keepers, Christ Kitchen just to name a few will be at St.

LA district wants to settle claims over teacher

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By CHRISTINA HOAGAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Unified School District hopes to settle 189 legal actions by late January in a case involving a former elementary teacher accused of lewd acts with students that were so shocking, they prompted the district to remove all

Feds pledge to improve protection of sacred sites

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

WASHINGTON (AP) - Protection of sites held sacred by American Indians and Alaska Natives will be bolstered under a memorandum of understanding signed Thursday by four federal agencies and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. The memo signed by the departments of Agriculture, Defense,

Apple to produce line of Macs in the US next year

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By BREE FOWLER and PETER SVENSSONAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company will move production of one of its existing lines of Mac computers from China to the United States next year. Industry watchers said the announcement is both a cunning public-relations move

US library to fund literacy awards with $1.5M gift

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By BRETT ZONGKERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Billionaire investor David Rubenstein is giving the Library of Congress $1.5 million to fund three new literacy awards. Rubenstein of Bethesda, Md., is co-founder of the Carlyle Group private equity firm. He is a major philanthropist and in

Man accused in Ga. gas station shooting is veteran

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By JEFF MARTINAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) - An attorney says the elderly man accused of gunning down a Georgia woman after his motorized wheelchair and her car bumped has suffered strokes in recent years. Veronica Brinson is representing 73-year-old Frank Louis Reeves. He is accused of