New scholarship aids collegiate farmers, a growing trend
The academic constitution of a farmer is changing: More are pursuing college degrees.
The academic constitution of a farmer is changing: More are pursuing college degrees.

The Delaware community Monday relived the struggle of blacks in the 1950s and 1960s through a documentary shown at the 19th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Breakfast.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hundreds of people rallied Monday outside the South Carolina capitol to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and protest the state’s voter identification law.

The Rev. Tracey Sumner of the Second Baptist Church urged the crowd attending Sunday’s Martin Luther King Jr. worship celebration to think about their lives and purpose.
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the National Mall in Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. is a towering, heroic figure carved in stone. On the Broadway stage, he’s a living, breathing man who chain smokes, sips liquor and occasionally curses.

An electric transformer outside of the Powell Municipal Building was at the center of council members discussion this week during an operations committee meeting.
The investigation into alleged sexual abuse by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has brought the attention of Americans back to grand juries more clearly than since the days of the grand jury investigation of the actions of then President Bill Clinton. I wrote about the Grand Jury system for one of the first Case Study columns nearly seven years ago and, as more than six years have passed since then, it’s probably about time to address the topic again.

NEW YORK — The overnight police raids in Philadelphia and Los Angeles that dismantled two of the nation’s biggest Occupy Wall Street encampments leave just a few major “occupations” still going on around the U.S. But activists are already changing tactics and warning of a winter of discontent, with rallies and marches every week.