Local charter school is building our future one student at a time 
Awards show celebrating black women aims to uplift When Beverly Bond started the organization Black Girls Rock!, her goal was to empower young girls of color and give them better images than the often negative depictions seen in the media.
High school teacher wins top French literary prize A high school teacher won France's top literary prize Wednesday for his first novel, which deals with France's colonial wars in Algeria and Southeast Asia.
Think it's a bad time to start a business? Don't tell that to these folks The owners of a new taxi service in town that caters to the four-legged crowd have joined the roster of local entrepreneurs who have found a niche to fill amid the down economy.
What's it really like to work in SWAT? Ask these guys (Photo Gallery) We've all seen SWAT in action either on the news or fictionalized on TV and in movies, but what is it really like for the officers who call it their job?
Get busy looking busy Sitting in a cubicle farm five days a week can drive a person crazy. For a lot of people, however, a chunk of those 40 hours is taken up with Facebook, Twitter, texting and avoiding ones boss. And, of course, looking like you’re working.
On the internet at work? You deserve a raise Science, I thought the jury was still out on you. But now I know that you're on our side. Because you have finally maybe established what I've always thought could possibly be true -- that browsing the 'Net while at work was actually a good thing.
Google expands spoken search to desktop computers 
Turn your Facebook page into an Excel spreadsheet (at work) You can now scan Facebook at work and look extremely mathematically busy at the same time.
Steve Jobs gets comic book bio treatment 
Best iPhone productivity apps Apple Pages
Easily create letters, flyers, posters and cards with the mobile version of the Apple word processing software. The app automatically zooms in on text as you type, and text wraps so you’re not constantly moving your screen around.
