Updated: Fri, May 24, 2013

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Purdue University is expecting hundreds of scientists from around the world to descend on its main campus next month for a conference on the most recent research about the Great Lakes. More than 600 people are expected to attend the June 2-6 Conference on Great...

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File - In this Aug. 11, 2009 file photo provided by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows Matt Durham, center, pulling in a large patch of sea garbage with the help of Miriam Goldstein, right, in the Pacific Ocean. Plastics discarded by people often end up in the ocean, creating coastal...

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois State Board of Education has released the state's first set of math courses for 6th through 12th grade classes. Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon and the board announced the curriculum on Thursday. Simon is the state's point person for education reform. The package...

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Text of President Barack Obama's speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House: ___ It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791— standing guard in the...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An elementary school has inspired the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create a new wheelchair lift that could help make more places wheelchair accessible nationwide. The invention process started about three years ago when the principal at Emerson Elementary School in...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature's finance committee Thursday approved a plan in Republican Gov. Scott Walker's executive budget that would dramatically expand the state's powers to seize DNA from crime suspects. Wisconsin currently takes DNA only from convicted felons and sex offenders....

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Obama seeks to move US beyond war years but keep drones, outlining a narrower terror threat WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and...

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is dipping into federal grant money that was supposed to help improve the state's schools in order to settle a bitter contract dispute. Education Commissioner Tony Bennett earlier this month agreed to settle a lawsuit filed against his department by a...

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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The state Department of Education has named Gary Abud Jr. of Grosse Pointe North High School as 2013-2014 Michigan Teacher of the Year. State schools Superintendent Mike Flanagan announced the honors Thursday. Abud is a science teacher with six years' classroom...