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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – State lawmakers are considering a ban on what is being called the new marijuana. Salvia divinorum is a hallucinogenic herb that’s inexpensive and easy to obtain. Florida state Rep. Mary Brandenburg has introduced a bill to make possession of salvia a felony punishable by up to five …

An anti-union group in Washington, D.C., is asking for nominations for “The 10 Worst Teachers” in America, so that it can offer them $10,000 each to quit their careers. The Center for Union Facts hopes that offering severance packages to poorly performing instructors will spark a debate on how hard …

NEW YORK – Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country’s murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday, his former colleague said. Dith, 65, died at a New Jersey hospital Sunday …