Monday,  September 17, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 062 • 18 of 26 •  Other Editions

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AP News in Brief
Pakistanis protesting anti-Islam video clash with police, 1 person killed

• TIMERGARAH, Pakistan (AP) -- Hundreds of people protesting an anti-Islam video have set fire to a press club and a government office in northwest Pakistan, sparking clashes with police that killed one demonstrator.
• Police official Mukhtar Ahmad says the protesters first attacked the press club in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province's Upper Dir district Monday, apparently angered because their demonstration wasn't getting more coverage.
• Ahmad says police charged the crowd, beating protesters with batons. The protesters then attacked a government office and set it ablaze. Ahmad says the protesters, many of them armed, have now surrounded a local police station.
• Another police official, Akhtar Hayat, says one protester died when police and the demonstrators exchanged fire and several were wounded.
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As Chicago mayor seeks court order to end teachers strike, parents scramble for child care

• CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is turning to the courts to try to put an end to a teachers strike that's entering its second week and has left parents scrambling to make alternative child care arrangements for at least two more days.
• The union and school leaders seemed headed toward a resolution at the end of last week, saying they were optimistic students in the nation's third-largest school district would be back in class by Monday. But teachers uncomfortable with a tentative contract offer decided Sunday to remain on strike, saying they needed more time to review a complicated proposal.
• Emanuel fired back, saying he told city attorneys to seek a court order forcing Chicago Teachers Union members back into the classroom.
• The strike is the first for the city's teachers in 25 years and has kept 350,000 students out of class, leaving parents to make other plans.
• Working mom Dequita Wade said that when the strike started, she sent her son 15 miles away to a cousin's house so he wouldn't be left unsupervised in a neighborhood known for violent crime and gangs. She was hoping the union and district would work things out quickly.
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