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Contract issues in the Chicago teachers strike

As Chicago teachers walk the picket lines, their union and the city's school district resumed negotiating Monday over a new contract that includes bigger salaries, more benefits, revised job security measures and revamped teacher evaluations. Here is a breakdown of the issues on the table:


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Chicago teachers to strike after talks fail

CHICAGO - The Chicago Teachers Union announced Sunday night that it will go on strike Monday morning for the first time in 25 years after contract talks with the school district failed over issues including pay, benefits and job security.


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WTC memorial magnificent, but at a steep price

NEW YORK - With its huge reflecting pools, ringed by waterfalls and skyscrapers, and a cavernous underground museum still under construction, the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center is an awesome spectacle that moved and inspired some 4.5 million visitors in its first year.


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Fire destroys diner in New Castle

NEW CASTLE, Ind. - Customers at a diner in an eastern Indiana city were evacuated shortly before a fire destroyed the building. -á



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Severe storms cut power to thousands, down tress

INDIANAPOLIS - Utility crews are working to restore power to hundreds of Indiana homes and businesses still in the dark following severe thunderstorms that brought high winds and heavy rains to the state. Friday night's storms cut power to more than 5,400 Indianapolis Power & Light Co. customers, but by Saturday afternoon only about 420 remained without power. The powerful storms ahead of a cold front that ushered in sharply cooler air forced the cancellation of scores of Friday night high school football games. In southwestern Indiana, Vectren Corp. reported that more than 7,000 of its customers in three counties faced power outages following the storms. But by Saturday afternoon, just 900 customers remained without power. Duke Energy reported about 400 customers without power as of early Saturday afternoon.


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60-day election sprint opens with weak jobs report

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - President Barack Obama emerged from the euphoria of his party's convention Friday and ran smack into the harsh reality of a bleak new report on the nation's unemployment outlook. Republican rival Mitt Romney pounced on the disappointing jobs figures as fresh evidence that it's time to put someone new in the Oval Office.







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