While many parts of Senate Bill 451 drove teachers out of their classrooms and into the streets to fight for their jobs as educators, bringing Charter Schools to West Virginia is a major sticking point in this fight.
This month, the Greenbrier Valley Community Foundation presented a check worth $21,900 and change to the Greater Greenbrier Long-Term Recovery Committee.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Don Newcombe, the hard-throwing Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who was one of the first black players in the major leagues and who went on to win the Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards, has died. He was 92. The team confirmed that Newcombe died Tuesday morning after a lengthy illness.
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PANAMA CITY (AP) - Just weeks after becoming baseball's first unanimous Hall of Fame selection, Mariano Rivera is defending himself from accusations in his native Panama that he has failed to support two children he had outside his marriage. The former New York Yankees' closer on Tuesday called the demands filed against him in the Central American country "unfounded." "I have always acted ... as a good family father," the 49-year-old told local media.
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PHOENIX (AP) - Mike Moustakas fell one win shy of reaching the World Series with the Milwaukee Brewers. "I think we had some unfinished business after last year," Moustakas said Tuesday after finalizing a $10 million, one-year deal with the Brewers. "I loved playing here last year. It was a lot of fun. We fell a little bit short, obviously, but I feel like this team can get back to where we were at last year and make a push for the World Series."
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred predicts top free agents will all get deals and the second slow free-agent market won't have lasting significance. "In some ways I feel like it's a little much ado about nothing if in fact those players all sign at the end of the day," he said Tuesday. "The season's going to go on. We're going to have the right players out there playing on the field, and it's kind of no harm, no foul."
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two leading advocates for retired NFL players have teamed up in pushing for increased pension benefits for pre-1993 retirees. The Pro Football Retired Players Association, a nonprofit chaired by Hall of Famer Jim Brown, donated $100,000 to "Fairness for Athletes in Retirement, a nonprofit advocating for pension parity in the upcoming negotiations over the league's next collective bargaining agreement.
