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The shelter has just over 50 dogs, including some from a hoarding situation in Worley.

The pet rats were left behind by an obscured figure about 12:30 a.m., as recorded by the Coeur d'Alene Public Library video surveillance system.

The pet rats were left behind by an obscured figure about 12:30 a.m., as recorded by the Coeur d'Alene Public Library video surveillance system.

The fireworks finale at the Battle Proms concert in Hatfield. - Credit: Tammy Marlar A popular proms concert is set to return to Hatfield this summer now that lockdown easing is opening up the country again for live outdoor events. The annual Battle Proms is due to take place in Hatfield Park again on Saturday, July 17. A highlight of the Hertfordshire social calendar, Battle Proms promoters JSL Productions should have celebrated their 20th summer at Hatfield last year. Battle Proms cannon...

This is a real crisis especially in hard economic times. >> vicky, the bill and melinda gates foundation has done so much, and your focus has been on the poverty data and the impact on k through 8. what are the real challenges now? >> part of whats happening to kids, is they leave high school without the skills they need to be successful and they end up taking remediation courses and dropping out. they have a great education through high school so kids meet college-ready standards and whats grea...

That for a hispanic and minority children, vicky, the odds are just so stacked against them. they enter school and they fall behind year by year and by the time theyre in fourth grade theyre behind. >> what we know is that the gap between great teachers and those that are less effective is huge for students and that for those kids, if we gave them a great teacher every single year we could close that achievement gap in three years or so. so the power of what happens inside a school as well as th...

video. a view from inside the washington monument during last months east coast earthquake. today crews are rappelling down the landmark. >> good day. im andrea mitchell live at the education experience in new york. president obama leaves california for denver, thats expected to net close to $4 million. the president is campaigning of course, for his jobs bill. chuck todd is chief white house correspondent, host of "the daily rundown" and political director. the president is on a campa...

correspondent, host of "the daily rundown" and political director. the president is on a campaign trip, a jobs trip, and it also has a lot to do with the political climate for 2012. >> it does, and you know, whats been interesting about watching the president on this trip a little bit is hes having to confront sort of the simultaneous issues that he has to deal with in the next 14 months. so hes trying to sell the jobs bill and trying to explain his call for the tax hikes and it will b...