One year sober from a crack cocaine addiction, Linda Soto said she wants to start over. But her dreams to repair holes in the living room ceiling and window screens, to patch up the splotchy, mismatched colored walls and to replace the scratched wood floor and worn-out secondhand furniture are on hold once again.
Nursing home administrators claim it is the federal ranking system that’s to blame for painting facilities in a negative light — including in Kenosha, where half of Medicare-certified nursing homes are deemed below average and well-below average.
As a result of the November 2009 search, police found a “world” of pornography, including more than 100 DVDs of child erotica and images of children in sexual poses that covered his walls, cupboards and shelves, the criminal complaint says. If convicted, Kevin Derks faces up to 500 years in prison.
Amid national and state issues facing the federally funded preschool program, the Kenosha Unified School District will increase the number of locations to eight next year, and officials say a local study shows the Unified program’s benefi ts are longer lasting than the national trend suggests.
“You missed a comma in the ‘1,000,’” 10-year-old Zachary Morris of Kenosha scolds his teachers while scanning a Braille text. Proofreading — check. Then the blind fourth-grader spells a word aloud as he zips his fi ngers across the bumpy page. “M-E-A-N-D-E-R. Is that meander? Is it like ambling?” Spelling, reading comprehension — check, check. Morris will put those three skill requirements to the test June 25-26 at the National Braille Challenge in Los Angeles.
The University of Nevada, Reno will likely see the closure of more than a dozen degree programs, the elimination of a major college and the loss of about 75 faculty members by Fall 2011. The search is on to find $11 million to cut from UNR’s budget (nearly $50 million from higher ed) since state leaders passed a 6.9 percent cut to higher education yesterday — a figure UNR officials call “fantastic” compared to initial proposals as high as 22 percent just two weeks ago.
When it comes to romantic comedies, you’d be hard-pressed to find one dramatically different from another, but “Paper Heart” comes close to setting itself apart. This low-budget film takes a unique perspective to tell a charming love story about a girl who’s not quite sure about the meaning of true love.
In a two-part package: read how a California comedian made a movie and find out if it’s a flick you want to catch.
