Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Ary Sloane (top left,) Lorraine Vicente (top right,) Rita Wyszynski (btm left,)  Jennifer Hughes  (btm right,) and Evelyn Cortez (center.)  By Maryclaire Dale Associated Press A city principal and four teachers promoted cheating on standardized tests by changing student answers, providing answers and improperly reviewing questions before the tests, prosecutors said as they announced charges in an ongoing grand jury…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Leonore Draper associated press CHICAGO — A woman who had just attended a fundraiser for an anti-violence organization was shot to death in Chicago.  Thirty-two-year-old Leonore Draper was shot in the arm and chest inside a car in the West Pullman neighborhood on Friday night.  The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office says she…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This photo combo of images provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Clayton Lockett, left, and Charles Warner. Lockett and Warner, two death-row inmates who want to know the source of drugs that will be used to execute them, have placed Oklahoma’s two highest courts at odds and prompted aggravated members of…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Rubin “hurricane” Carter of New Jersey watches Cuba’s Florentino Fernandez fall through the ropes as he was knocked out in the first round of their scheduled 10-round bout at Madison Square Gardens, New York, on Nov. 3, 1962. Carter knocked out Fernandez after 69 seconds of the first round.  Carter died this weekend…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Chicago police and fire department personnel gather at the scene last weekend, where five children, all 15 years old or younger, were shot and wounded in Chicago. Police said Monday that eight people were killed and 44 injured, including the five children, in weekend shootings.  (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Brian Jackson)    associated press…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Edmond Aviv sits on a street corner holding a sign Sunday, April 13, 2014, in South Euclid, Ohio declaring he’s a bully, a requirement of his sentence because he was accused of harassing a neighbor and her disabled children for the past 15 years. Municipal Court Judge Gayle Williams-Byers ordered Aviv, 62, to…

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associated press [See Stateside page 10 for President Obama’s NAN speech in its entirety] In an unsparing critique of Republicans, President Barack Obama said yesterday that the GOP is threatening voting rights in America more than at any point since the passage of the historic 1965 law expanding rights at the ballot box to millions…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Shanesha Taylor   By Terry Tang associated press PHOENIX — A Phoenix woman arrested after leaving her two kids in a hot vehicle during a job interview is fighting to clear her name in court, with the support of a New Jersey woman who has raised more than $91,000 to help her effort….

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Rev. Al Sharpton speaks during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Sharpton says a report that he spied on New York Mafia figures for the FBI in the 1980s is old news.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)   Associated Press NEW YORK— The Rev. Al Sharpton admitted last week that he…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this file photo taken in 2006 the children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King from left, Martin Luther King III, Dexter King, the late Yolanda King and Bernice King stand next to a new crypt dedicated to their parents in Atlanta. Bernice is in a legal battle…

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