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In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 29, 20132, a bicycle helmet tops the container where students with a month's worth of perfect attendance can enter their names in a raffle to win the helmet and bicycle at the Maeola R. Beitzel Elementary School in Sacramento, Calif. Beitzel elementary is among the schools in the Elk Grove Unified School participating in the districts "No Excuses-Go To School " campaign to encourage students to attend school. Elk Grove Unified is among a growing number of schools and school districts across the nation that are using give aways and other incentives to counter slumping student attendance.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelii)

New attendance push prized by students, educators

Associated Press · September 3, 2012 4:00 am

Strasburg returns to form but gets no-decision in Nationals’ victory

Associated Press · September 3, 2012 4:00 am

A Pakistan rescue worker looks at a vehicle targeted by terrorists in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. A suicide bomber rammed a car filled with explosives into a U.S. government vehicle in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing two Pakistanis and wounding 19 others, including two Americans, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Suicide bomber wounds 2 Americans in Pakistan

Associated Press · September 3, 2012 4:00 am

A boy looks back while he and another boy play on a Syrian military tank, destroyed during fighting with the Rebels, in the Syrian town of Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Airstrikes in Syria kill at least 19 people

Associated Press · September 3, 2012 4:00 am

Morissette draws from marriage, son for new album

Associated Press · September 3, 2012 4:00 am

Unification Church leader Rev. Sun Myung Moon (AP photo)

Unification Church founder Rev. Moon dies at 92

Associated Press · September 2, 2012 4:00 am

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 16: The New York Pops and Music Director & Conductor Steven Reineke performs at Carnegie Hall on March 16, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

The List for Aug. 30

Associated Press · August 29, 2012 4:00 am

Republicans nominate Mitt Romney for president

Republicans nominate Mitt Romney for president

Associated Press · August 28, 2012 4:00 am

GOP convention opens: Party proceeds despite storm

GOP convention opens: Party proceeds despite storm

Associated Press · August 27, 2012 4:00 am

Workers place displays at the Republican National Convention inside of the Tampa Bay Times in Tampa, Fla., on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Revised Republican National Convention Schedule

Associated Press · August 27, 2012 4:00 am

US heartland cities debating gay rights measures

US heartland cities debating gay rights measures

Associated Press · August 26, 2012 5:08 pm

News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch, speaks during a forum on The Economics and Politics of Immigration in Boston at which Murdoch and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

In royal photo scandal, some see Murdoch message

Associated Press, Raphael Satter · August 26, 2012 4:57 pm