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Despite pact, few blacks at Coast Guard school
8:33 AM on 11/25/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the NAACP signed a voluntary agreement to work together to boost the number of African-Americans at its 1,000-cadet service academy...
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Abandoned 6-year-old escapes locked school bus
VIDEO - First-grader Tevin Smith said he fell asleep during the ride home from Estabrook Elementary in Ypsilanti, Michigan and woke up to find the bus parked in a bus yard...
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