http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 20 Nov 2008 22:28:44 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/40740/duke-rape-accuser-stands-by-her-story.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe woman at the center of the dismissed Duke rape case still insists she was assaulted, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. As she promoted her new self-published book, The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story , the former escort service dancer asserted "without equivocation" that members of the lacrosse team assaulted her. Now she says she wants to help others with her story, but an opposing attorney isn't buying it.http://www.newser.com/story/40740/duke-rape-accuser-stands-by-her-story.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 23 Oct 2008 16:31:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39504/pregnancy-pact-hs-to-offer-birth-control.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA Massachusetts high school where 17 teens got pregnant last year presumably as part of a "pregnancy pact" has decided to distribute birth control pills and condoms to students, the Boston Globe reports. A school official said birth control would only be available with parental consent, adding that he hoped the school could now move on following national news reports of the pregnancy pact, allegedly made by teens who wanted to raise their babies together.http://www.newser.com/story/39504/pregnancy-pact-hs-to-offer-birth-control.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 09 Oct 2008 3:30:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39476/teen-girl-faces-felony-porn-charges-after-cell-prank.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA 15-year-old Ohio girl who allegedly sent nude photos of herself to classmates as a joke faces felony child-porn charges—and may have to register as a sex offender, the Newark Advocate reports. The girl, who was arrested Friday and spent the weekend in jail, has pleaded not guilty. The incident took place after the county prosecutor visited high schools to warn students of the consequences of just such an act, WBNS-TV notes.http://www.newser.com/story/39476/teen-girl-faces-felony-porn-charges-after-cell-prank.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 08 Oct 2008 17:13:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34594/suit-stops-hackers-from-showing-subway-flaw.html?refid=rss_all_defaultBoston’s mass transit system has blocked three MIT students from revealing a flaw in its electronic fare system, the Boston Globe reports. Most Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority customers use the CharlieCard, which allows them to store fares. By cracking it, the students vowed to give attendees at a Las Vegas computer conference “free subway rides for life."http://www.newser.com/story/34594/suit-stops-hackers-from-showing-subway-flaw.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 10 Aug 2008 19:08:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/33635/oprah-school-matron-pleads-not-guilty.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe former dorm matron at Oprah Winfrey’s $40 million Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa pleaded not guilty to abuse charges today, Reuters reports. Virginia Mokgoba, 27, was charged in November with assault, harassment, soliciting a minor to perform indecent acts, and verbal abuse. Testimony from six teenage victims is expected Friday via closed video.http://www.newser.com/story/33635/oprah-school-matron-pleads-not-guilty.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 29 Jul 2008 8:33:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32453/sat-act-cheats-get-off-easy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultCollege hopefuls caught cheating on their ACT or SAT exams are likely to face few consequences, the Los Angeles Times reports, due to policies under which the administering agencies simply cancel suspicious scores on the college-admission exams. High schools and colleges are kept in the dark about potential wrongdoing, and students are generally allowed to retake the exams.http://www.newser.com/story/32453/sat-act-cheats-get-off-easy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 15 Jul 2008 3:42:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/30348/big-pharma-sickens-universities.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWeak legislation allows professors to collect huge under-the-table payments from Big Pharma, and it’s time to fight back, Dan Greenberg writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education . Pharmaceutical companies pay professors to shill drugs and lend their names to industry research, and the only oversight is an honor-system mechanism requiring profs to report outside income to the university—not to a federal agency.http://www.newser.com/story/30348/big-pharma-sickens-universities.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 18 Jun 2008 13:43:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/30572/teacher-who-branded-students-fired.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAn Ohio school board has voted unanimously to fire a science teacher who used an electrostatic device to brand 8th-graders with a cross, the AP reports. Science teacher John Freshwater, who says the marks were simply Xs, had been in trouble with the board before for teaching creationism, slamming evolution and other scientific theories, and keeping a Bible on his desk.http://www.newser.com/story/30572/teacher-who-branded-students-fired.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 20 Jun 2008 22:22:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/30273/high-school-test-cheat-could-face-38-years.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA student at an Orange County high school faces 69 felony charges and a possible 38 years in prison for a scheme to alter grades, the Los Angeles Times reports. The locked-up 18-year-old is accused of breaking into his school repeatedly, hacking into computers, and changing test scores and records for himself and 12 other students. Prosecutors say he emailed copies of tests to dozens of others.http://www.newser.com/story/30273/high-school-test-cheat-could-face-38-years.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 17 Jun 2008 23:10:00 CDT