'Exhausted' honour student shown no mercy and jailed for truancy... Works two jobs to support family
Since the parents of Diane Tran, 17, divorced out of the blue and left Texas, the honour student has worked two jobs as well as studying to support the family. full story
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D.A. targets truancy cases
The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office is seeking a state grant to hire a prosecutor who will solely handle truancy cases as part of the Truancy Intervention Program.
montgomeryadvertiser.com (13 days ago)
Mercy laying off workers, eliminating 18 jobs
LORAIN - Mercy hospital will eliminate 18 jobs as the healthcare system deals with fewer patients and decreasing funding, the hospital announced today.
morningjournal.com (6 days ago)
Baby smugglers should be shown mercy not treated as people traffickers says judge
Lord Justice Toulson cut the sentence of Carmen Thomas from Sunderland, pictured with husband Mark, by one third. She was jailed after trying to smuggle a Filipino baby into the UK.
dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 29 days ago)
Officials take aim at school truancy
WILKES-BARRE 8212 Concerned about increasing truancy rates, a Luzerne County judge is calling upon county school districts to take a more uniform and proactive approach to address the family and societal issues that are causing the problems.
timesleader.com (29 days ago)
Teen truancy drops in Oshkosh but remains among highest in region
Teen truancy in Oshkosh schools has declined since the city's public high schools adopted new policies two years ago aimed at reversing one of the worst truancy rates in the state.
thenorthwestern.com (1 month and 6 days ago)
Police try new approach to truancy in Harbor Area
Police officers tried a different approach Wednesday to round up teenagers ditching school in the Harbor Area and Carson: No one received a truancy ticket during the morning sweep dubbed "Operation Back in School." Gallery: Harbor Area truancy sweep | Truancy sweep videos inside.
dailybreeze.com (1 month and 9 days ago)
MP calls for Vicky Pryce to be stripped of honour after criminal conviction
The jailed wife of ex-minister Chris Huhne may be stripped of a highly prestigious honour bestowed by the Queen, the Evening Standard has learned.
standard.co.uk (2 months ago)
‘We will track down rapists of war and show them no mercy’, promises Somali government
Thugs committing rape in war-ravaged Somalia were today warned they will be “hunted down” and shown no mercy.
standard.co.uk (13 days ago)
Woman in Jordan stabbed 20 times in face and chest 'by brother who wanted to cleanse the family honour'
Authorities in Amman said the man confessed to slitting his sister's throat and stabbing her repeatedly to 'cleanse the family honour' as she spent too little time at home.
dailymail.co.uk (19 days ago)
Henrico public schools’ truancy rates down 32 percent since last year
Truancy in Henrico County’s public schools is down 32 percent compared with last year, a trend officials attribute to reassignment of social workers to schools with high truancy and early collaboratio
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