A former high school teacher in New York has been rearrested a day after being sentenced for having a long-running affair with a 16-year-old student.
Heather Kennedy was released on $15,000 bail after her arraignment Saturday on criminal contempt charges.
A prosecutors' spokesman says the new charges reflect letters Kennedy wrote the boy while jailed on earlier …
A new Catholic preschool and kindergarten that eventually willgrow into a full elementary school will open this September in theWest Loop, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin announced Sunday.
Old St. Patrick's School, the first new school in thearchdiocese in 20 years, will begin with a 1989-90 enrollment ofabout 40 children, Bernardin said at a news conference at Old St.Patrick's Church, 700 W. Adams St., in the growing West Loop area.
"Today the West Loop needs a new school. . . . We want toprovide Catholic education wherever there is a need for Catholiceducation," Bernardin said.
Word of the school's opening was first reported …
MADRID (AP) — England's Lee Slattery extended his lead at the Madrid Masters to 2 strokes after shooting a 3-under 69 in the third round on Saturday.
Slattery led by 1 overnight and produced a steady round of three birdies without dropping a shot to finish the day at 14 under for the tournament. He's two shots ahead of Italian Lorenzo Gagli and Australian Brett …
A Thai man arrested for allegedly spying on Thailand's fugitive former prime minister went on trial Tuesday in Cambodia in a politically charged case that could worsen an already bitter diplomatic feud between the two nations.
The trial at Municipal Court in the capital, Phnom Penh, comes after Cambodia's decision last month to name former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra its special economic adviser. The appointment and a subsequent visit by Thaksin to Cambodia set off a feud that has strained relations.
Thai national Siwarak Chothipong, a 31-year-old employee of the Cambodia Air Traffic Service, which manages flights in the country, was accused of …
LEAFLETS are being distributed around Hotwells in the next step inthe fight to preserve one of the last green spaces in the area.
Local people say the area known as Granby Green is public spaceand have been protesting against a firm called Petherton Trust Ltd,which put up a fence around the site.
Many believe that fencing off the area is just a prelude toresidential development and they say the company's claim to the landis doubtful.
Now pamphlets explaining the reasons behind the protest are beingput through the letterboxes of local people by a group called Friendsof Granby Green.
The leaflets claim that the land has not been used for over 30years by …
It's unusual for a man to sing in America. It's not at all unusual in Scotland, where I grew up in the 1950s and '60s. Back there, you went to a house party, and there came a time when everyone gathered in a semicircle around the fire. Everybody had a turn, and you sang or told stories. Whatever it is you did, whatever your little part, you just kind of learned to do it. And when you were asked to perform, you were ready.
So I'm accustomed to being the performer, coming in as a new executive to turn something around. On Day One, I know I have a clean slate, and have to start proving myself from scratch. You don't know me, I don't know you. What I did before means nothing. If …
Barack Obama says he is going to visit Iraq and Afghanistan before the November election.
The presumed Democratic presidential nominee said he spoke with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Monday about the war and told him he looks forward to seeing him in Baghdad.
Obama has said before he was considering …
