Detroit loses a staggering 25% of its population in a decade

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/22/michigan.detroit.population/index.html?hpt=Sbin
 Detroit could probably use another Eminem boost following Tuesday's news that it lost 25% of its residents from 2000 to 2010.

D.C. elementary school student allegedly brought cocaine to school

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/03/18/dc.school.cocaine/index.html
A Washington elementary school student who allegedly brought cocaine to school and shared it with other children has been charged with possession of a controlled substance, the school system said Friday.

Japanese officials will test food, seawater to determine health risks

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/22/japan.nuclear.food/index.html?hpt=C2
Japanese officials' concerns over food contamination expanded beyond the country's borders Tuesday as tests detected radiation in ocean water offshore.

Mother hopes others will opt out of standardized testing

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/20/pennsylvania.school.testing/index.html?hpt=Sbin
A Pennsylvania mother has decided she does not want her two children to take the two-week-long standardized tests given by her state as part of the federal No Child Left Behind law. And she hopes other parents will do the same.

No short-term risk from contaminated food

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/21/japan.nuclear.food/index.html?hpt=T2
Short-term exposure to food contaminated by radiation from Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant poses no immediate health risk, a spokesman for the World Health Organization said Monday.

Emotions fly at controversial hearing on Muslim Americans

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/03/10/radicalization.hearings/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Washington (CNN) -- A controversial congressional hearing Thursday on the radicalization of Muslim Americans touched on sensitive questions involving terrorism and tolerance a decade after the 9/11 attacks.

How can teen athlete deaths be prevented?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/11/teen.heart.deaths/index.html?hpt=Sbin
There were 35 black and orange balloons at Wes Leonard's funeral in Fenville, Michigan, on Tuesday, to represent the number on his high school basketball jersey. Even athletes from other schools who had competed against him were moved to tears.

Oil prices hit highest level since Sept. 2008

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41903576/ns/business-oil_and_energy/
.S. crude prices jumped to their highest since September 2008 Friday as Libyan security forces cracked down on protesters in Tripoli and clashed with rebels near the major oil terminal of Ras Lanuf.

The rising turmoil in Libya overshadowed news from The Labor Department that the economy added 192,000 jobs last month.

The unemployment rate dropped in February to 8.9% as the U.S. economy created 192,000 net new jobs, the Labor Department reported Friday, a sharp increase that could signal the recovery is starting to produce the large-scale hiring needed to repair the damage from the deep recession

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/03/february-unemployment-jobs-economy-recovery-obama.html
The unemployment rate dropped in February to 8.9% as the U.S. economy created 192,000 net new jobs, the Labor Department reported Friday, a sharp increase that could signal the recovery is starting to produce the large-scale hiring needed to repair the damage from the deep recession

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/04/obama.miami.school/index.html?hpt=C2
You could barely hear the dismissal buzzer over the sound of the pressure cleaner. But as school officials tried to spruce up their campus a bit, the buzz inside the hallways was almost as loud.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/21/white.persecution/index.html?hpt=C1
They marched on Washington to reclaim civil rights.
They complained of voter intimidation at the polls.
They called for ethnic studies programs to promote racial pride.
They are, some say, the new face of racial oppression in this nation -- and their faces are white

London Officials Ban Ice Cream Shop's

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/03/human-breast-milk-seized-london-icecreamists-food-safety-.html
Under the category of “taking pop culture just a bit too far,” government officials earlier this week reportedly seized samples of a “Baby Gaga” ice cream –- made with human breast milk -– from a shop called Icecreamists in London and sent it to a lab to be tested for possible hepatitis contamination.

Gas (all grades) for $4/gal in San Diego, California

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-564084?hpt=Sbin
This station is almost always the most expensive in the area, yet it still has a few cars fueling up at any given time. Probably because it's right off of I-5 northbound at Del Mar Heights, in San Diego, California.