dallasnews.com - 3/19/2009
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07:23 AM CDT on Friday, March 20, 2009 By EMILY RAMSHAW and TAWNELL D. HOBBS / The Dallas Morning News The principal and other staff members at South Oak Cliff High School were supposed to be breaking up fights. Instead, they sent troubled students into a steel utility cage in an athletic ...
dallasnews.com - 3/13/2009
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07:03 AM CDT on Friday, March 13, 2009
By CHRISTY HOPPE and ROBERT T. GARRETT / The
Dallas Morning News choppe@dallasnews.com rtgarrett@dallasnews.com AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry, joining a handful of his fellow Southern Republican leaders, said Thursday ...
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry rejects stimulus money for jobless ...
dallasnews.com - 3/23/2009
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12:21 PM CDT on Friday, March 20, 2009
I don't watch Jim Cramer or Suze Orman or
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dallasnews.com - 3/20/2009
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08:09 PM CDT on Friday, March 13, 2009
Hearne, Texas, a hamlet so tiny that it can't
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‘Cage fights’ in high school
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At a Dallas high school, the principal and staffers staged cage fights in a sports locker room utility cage, charges a district investigation reported by the Dallas Morning News. South Oak Cliff High students were told to settle their disputes with bare fists; they had no head protection. The “cage fights” took place between 2003 and 2005, investigators concluded. The school originally was investigated for changing grades of student athletes. Internal district reports obtained by The News describe a culture of sanctioned violence in which school employees and even the ...
On the Radar: March 20, 2009
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Meanwhile, back in the back country, far far away, Still-Governor-of-Alaska Sarah Palin is rejecting some stimulus funds for her state, and trophy-hunters are charged approximately $35,000 for the privilege of killing a polar bear. Alrighty then! Excuse me while I cancel my weekend plans.
Also today, an update on the tent city in California we've been talking about for a couple days now, and the true-crime tales of school-sponsored cage fighting!
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UFC: High School
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... For our favorite story of the day, we take you to Texas, where apparently a high school principal was having his unruly students fight it out with each other inside a steel cage to settle their differences. ...
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