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Classes resume at Texas school where teacher slain

TYLER, Texas—Special education teacher Todd Henry worked with troubled students for years and had been injured at school before. The onetime prison therapist who died Wednesday after being stabbed in a classroom, allegedly by one of his students, ...

From JOHN MCFARLAND AND LINDA STEWART BALL, Boston Globe,  24 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John Tyler

Teen arrested in killing of teacher in classroom

TYLER, Texas - A special-education teacher who had a passion for music was fatally stabbed yesterday morning in a Texas high school classroom, and police took a 16-year-old student into custody. Todd R. Henry, 50, worked with students at John Tyler ...

From JOHN MCFARLAND AND LINDA STEWART BALL, Boston Globe,  24 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John Tyler

Teacher killed at Texas high school; teen held

A special-education teacher was fatally stabbed Wednesday morning in a Texas high school classroom, and police took a 16-year-old student into custody. Todd R. Henry, 50, worked with students at John Tyler High School who were either emotionally ...

From JOHN MCFARLAND AND LINDA STEWART BALL, eTaiwan News,  23 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John Tyler

Luton and Liverpool couldn't be separated - even in Cantonese

I have just watched the Luton v Liverpool FA Cup-tie on television - with Cantonese commentary. Scholars argue over whether Cantonese is a dialect or a language, but it is spoken in Hong Kong and the Pearl Delta Region of China which includes the ...

From JOHN BALL, Sportingo,  10 Jan 2008
Related Topics: National Basketball Association,  Kevin Blackwell

Are Sir Alex Ferguson and Frank Rijkaard on the FA's England wish-list?

After the sacking of Graham Taylor in 1993 a friend asked me who I thought the next England manager should be and I said Johan Cruyff. I thought the England set-up needed a big name who could shake the thing up a bit and walk, or threaten to walk away, ...

From JOHN BALL, Sportingo,  7 Dec 2007
Related Topics: Frank Rijkaard,  Alex Ferguson,  Steven Gerrard,  Graham Taylor,  Frank Lampard

Raikkonen and Alonso loom large in Lewis Hamilton's nightmare

For the second time in two years the weather played a decisive factor in the Shanghai Grand Prix. The air is normally dry and at this time of year the temperature is between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius so you would expect a wet track to dry out very ...

From JOHN BALL, Sportingo,  8 Oct 2007

The girls from Brazil bring a samba carnival to the World Cup in China

Brazil served up a goal feast for the watching public in a hot sticky night in Hangzhou against favourites USA bringing new life into the hugely successful Women's World Cup tournament. Tickets were cheap following China’s exit and there were empty ...

From JOHN BALL, Sportingo,  28 Sep 2007

Women's World Cup: China gets the message but can England get past the USA?

Thursday's women's World Cup match between Brazil and Denmark in Hangzhou showed what an important role coaches have in the modern game. Denmark chose to pack the midfield and stifle Brazil, who played with two strikers, one wide on the right and a ...

From JOHN BALL, Sportingo,  21 Sep 2007

Noodles, a good map and a touch of Chinese - your guide to the Beijing Olympics

The Women’s World Cup is proving to be a big success here in China and the bandwagon is rolling following the host nation’s dramatic late winner against Denmark on Sunday. The stadiums are modern and well designed. The Hangzhou Dragon Stadium for ...

From JOHN BALL, Sportingo,  19 Sep 2007

Women's World Cup: England hand out Chinese torture to champions Germany

England wore red shirts for their Women's World Cup clash with Germany  in Shanghai - but 1966 is a long way away now. And while the Germans quickly organised themselves into a shooting drill in the warm-up, England resembled a pub team with a couple ...

From JOHN BALL, Sportingo,  15 Sep 2007
Related Topics: Karen Carney,  Jill Scott

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