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Backpacks provide help for homeless students

BALLWIN, Mo. (AP) -- Staff, parents and students in a suburban St. Louis school district are filling backpacks as part of an effort to provide a helping hand for homeless classmates. A Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis (http://bit.ly/z09Qyi ) report says 160 of the more than 22,200 students in the Rockwood School District are homeless. Each weekend, needy students receive backpacks filled ...

Backpacks searched after threat at Quakertown school

Students at Neidig Elementary School in Quakertown had their backpacks searched Monday morning after a threat was found scribbled on a bathroom wall on Friday indicating someone would bring a gun into

What they're saying in the NBA: Nick Collison on hazing and Scottie Pippen on yoga

Oklahoma City rookies have pink backpacks and teddy bears for the road, Thunder power forward Nick Collison writes in a blog for GQ. Thunder power forward Nick Collison blogged for GQ about rookie hazing: "We make sure our rookies this season — Reggie Jackson and Ryan Reid — wear their pink Justin Bieber and 'My Little Pony' backpacks and carry their oversized teddy bears on all road trips ...

Eastpak Launches Artist Studio Backpacks

Eastpak Artist Studio backpacks designed by (from left) Yelle, Johnny Marr, and Marina and The Diamonds.Photo: Courtesy of Eastpak We've been on a backpack kick lately. It started in early fall when we were inspired by all of the back-to-school accessories, but its an obsession that has extended to now—winter—when we have so much bulky junk [...]

Backpacks bring hope to needy kids

According to the University of Georgia’s Initiative on Poverty and the Economy website, 26.15 percent of the population in Colquitt County are children who are living in poverty which means there are children out there who aren’t getting the nutrition that they need. In an effort to help these children, some local churches have taken up an initiative using something as simple and iconic as ... a ...