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Jim Dent, author of The Junction Boys, the story of how famous Texas A&M coach Paul “Bear” Bryant spent his first summer with Aggie recruits in the harsh West Texas town of Junction, is a wanted man around College Station. For that matter, Dent is subject to arrest all over Texas and Oklahoma and Arkansas. In three states Dent is wanted for a variety of reasons.

The charges stem primarily from multiple DWI counts, which after three times in Texas turns felonious. Dent also appears to have a problem violating parole. He served 40 days in the Brazos County jail after being caught drinking and driving for the third time while doing research on The Junction Boys in the College Station area. The day of his release he was pulled over for suspicion of the same thing in Oklahoma. Dent also has apparently developed a habit of skipping out on court and bond hearings.

At the moment Dent’s life should be reaching one if its peaks with the success of his best selling book on college athletics and its subsequent translation into a TV movie. As an author, he is nearing the peak of his popularity. But if police find him, he will have a lot of explaining to do.

MarcoPolo.com was funded by WorldCom, which filed for bankruptcy this summer. Below is an open letter from MarcoPolo asking the online educational community for support. Please do your part to help keep this awesome resource freely available to teachers everywhere.

Educators needing to research important events that occurred in the last year or so should check out our Old News pages. These pages can be useful for research of past events and can be referenced as such in your papers.

One of the best sites for newspaper and magazine educational news is at Education Week on the Web. Check it out at The Daily News

Looking for a specific newspaper? Try usnewspaperlinks.com It lists alphabetically by state all online newspapers, as well as state magazines and TV stations.

Looking for news in the technology sector? Try DailyTechNews.com It lists technology news from a wide variety of sources.

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		Edu News Welcome to Edu News An online news journal for educational professionals Featuring newsworthy education articles from both sides of the political spectrum Answering the question: What is the media saying about education? The Junction Boys author wanted in College Station December 17, 2002 Jim Dent, author of The Junction Boys, the story of how famous Texas A&M coach Paul “Bear” Bryant spent his first summer with Aggie recruits in the harsh West Texas town of Junction, is a wanted man around College Station. For that matter, Dent is subject to arrest all over Texas and Oklahoma and Arkansas. In three states Dent is wanted for a variety of reasons. The charges stem primarily from multiple DWI counts, which after three times in Texas turns felonious. Dent also appears to have a problem violating parole. He served 40 days in the Brazos County jail after being caught drinking and driving for the third time while doing research on The Junction Boys in the College Station area. The day of his release he was pulled over for suspicion of the same thing in Oklahoma. Dent also has apparently developed a habit of skipping out on court and bond hearings. At the moment Dent’s life should be reaching one if its peaks with the success of his best selling book on college athletics and its subsequent translation into a TV movie. As an author, he is nearing the peak of his popularity. But if police find him, he will have a lot of explaining to do. Open letter from MarcoPolo Sept. 26, 2002 MarcoPolo.com was funded by WorldCom, which filed for bankruptcy this summer. Below is an open letter from MarcoPolo asking the online educational community for support. Please do your part to help keep this awesome resource freely available to teachers everywhere. Dear MarcoPolo Educator: The premier provider of Internet content for the classroom - MarcoPolo - is in jeopardy. We need your help. The MarcoPolo program is facing dire financial straits. Its sole source of funding, WorldCom, recently filed for bankruptcy. No longer associated with WorldCom in any way, a new MarcoPolo Education Foundation has been established, and the search for permanent private funding is well underway. In order to continue its critically important mission through 2003, immediate funding is needed. As a user, you know first-hand the quality of the program's online content and the value it adds to classroom. Please help us locate the public funds to finance the program's operations until private funding can be secured. You can do this by contacting your elected officials and your local media, and getting your colleagues to do the same. First, please call and write your state and federal elected officials to urge them to provide temporary public funding to allow the program to continue its important work through 2003. Governments at every level are facing budget shortfalls - public education can't afford to lose a cost-effective program like MarcoPolo that is already making a big difference by providing high-quality, commercial-free Internet content to teachers in classrooms in all 50 states. More than 400,000 teachers have been trained to use MarcoPolo and 10,000 more are trained each month. Click the links below to ask your legislators to provide funding for this valuable program. Second, please contact local reporters and write a 'Letter to the Editor' to your local newspapers to express the importance of MarcoPolo to your teaching and to your students' learning. There are many resources on the new MarcoPolo site for press (http://www.marcopolo-education.org/about/press.aspx) and for state-specific data (http://www.marcopolo-education.org/state/state_progress.aspx). Lastly, please forward to us a copy of your letters to elected officials and to your local news media, as well as a copy of any local media coverage. MarcoPolo@lists.wcom.com. Thank you in advance for your efforts to help keep MarcoPolo online, where it can continue to serve you and make a real difference in the classroom. The MarcoPolo Education Foundation Why pay more for magazines when teachers get hefty discounts? More news: Educators needing to research important events that occurred in the last year or so should check out our Old News pages. These pages can be useful for research of past events and can be referenced as such in your papers. One of the best sites for newspaper and magazine educational news is at Education Week on the Web. Check it out at The Daily News Looking for a specific newspaper? Try usnewspaperlinks.com It lists alphabetically by state all online newspapers, as well as state magazines and TV stations. Looking for news in the technology sector? Try DailyTechNews.com It lists technology news from a wide variety of sources. Check out these great news sites: Check out Archeology in the News at EQ_Archeology Articles marked "EduQuery" were written by us and are copyrighted, not to be reprinted in any medium without permission. See the FAQ in the "About Us" page for more info. (Linking to them on the Web is okay without permission, provided appropriate credit is given.) Articles marked by newspaper or magazine sources are linked to their respective locations on the Web. We provide a brief summary of the articles. When clicking to those stories, use your "back" button to return to this page. About a month's worth of stories are available on this page. Older stories may be removed by certain newspapers. More stories can be found in the Old News section. We don't necessarily condone or condemn the ideas behind the articles we link to! Stories reflecting attitudes from both sides of the political spectrum are presented here. For complete details of our neutral stance on issues, see the FAQ in the "About Us" section. This page best viewed with Internet Explorer. If you are experiencing problems in Netscape, please try switching to IE. Thanks. Home