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Washington - As a new semester begins, college student loans are approaching the $1 trillion mark, more than all US households combined owe on their credit cards, and colleges are encouraging the vast student debt as a lingering recession compounds the problem.

Norfolk - Virginia school chose to handout anti-abortion fetus dolls to 3rd, 4th, 5th grader students in a religious abortion message. Parents are outraged their children were exposed to the dolls. Principal and teachers were placed on leaved pending investigation.

Dahlonega - A teacher who allowed students taking part in a class project on racism to dress in KKK hoods to film a segment on the history of the Klan in the South. Some say it was racism, others ask how you can study racism in the US without looking at the KKK.

A report on the website of the world's number one golfer Friday evening said he was taking an "indefinite" leave from the game of golf.

Finally some common sense where tasers are concerned. An Ohio police officer was placed on paid leave after he allegedly shocked a woman with a Taser seven times, including twice after she was handcuffed.

Paediatrician Rachel Besser wrote that dog owners should face mandatory classes on pet control.

More than a dozen armed assailants staged and videotaped simultaneous attacks against two offices of the state attorney general in Acapulco yesterday.

Doting animal owners get 'peternity leave' when their dog is feeling ruff

A Canadian woman can leave Lebanon without facing criminal charges if she leaves her two daughters behind with their father.

With no word coming on the whereabouts of a photographer kidnapped this week, and increasing concern that more kidnappings are in the planning, foreigners have been asked to evacuate.