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New year means new technology at local schoolsFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 10:43AMRhonda Charles, principal of East Houma Elementary School, installs part of a Mimio Teach interactive system Thursday afternoon in a classroom. The system allows teachers to project lessons to a white board from their computers and create a more hands-on learning style.

Leesburg writer pens new novelFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 10:30AMPublished: Friday, July 30, 2010 at 10:20 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 30, 2010 at 10:21 a.m. Chris St. Clair has written a new book that has received good response from local bookstores.

Newell Rubbermaid TopsFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 10:26AMExcluding special items, adjusted earnings per share came in at 51 cents, which easily surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 44 cents as well as the year-ago adjusted EPS of 47 cents.

Tax holidays meant to coax back-to-school shoppers into storesFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 10:04AMIllinois will have its first-ever sales tax holiday on back-to-school items next month, while Missouri and Iowa will reprise their popular programs.

At the Sac Co. FairFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 9:25AMSAC CITY - Livestock shows at the Sac County Fair may only last one day, but many 4-H'ers spend an entire week preparing their animals for the show ring.

Citizens Bank, realtor collecting gear for school kidsFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 9:22AMStarting this month, Citizens Bank began collecting new school supplies for its Gear for Grades Initiative, an effort to help local children go back to school with the gear they need to learn. New pencils, folders, glue sticks, notebooks and other school supplies can be donated at any of the 424 Citizens Bank branches in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware through Aug. 9.

Livestock auction sales set fair recordFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 9:18AMJunior Livestock Auction sales at the Santa Barbara County Fair hit an all-time high this year with a record $1.7 million in gross sales, according to fair officials.

English bulldogs and German shepherds together at NianguaSunday, July 25, 2010 @ 4:13AMMaking the change from sailing the Caribbean for eight years to living in Dallas County may seem like a big change to some, but for John LeBlond and Denise Stewart, it was no sweat.

Around the region -- PorterSunday, July 25, 2010 @ 4:03AM'Stuff the Bus': Help send Porter County children back to school equipped to succeed by donating pens, pencils, paper, rulers, backpacks, binders, notebooks, folders, crayons, markers, colored pencils, protractors or calculators and dropping them off at the Salvation Army bus from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday at the following locations: Monday and Tuesday at Staples, 4105 E. U.S. 30 ...