In Other News: Pigs saved from fire served to firefighters; Oregon can’t afford free tuition

Published 9:37 pm Friday, August 25, 2017

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Oregon promised free tuition, finds it can’t afford it

Oregon became one of the first states to make tuition free for new students at community colleges last year, but the cash-strapped state can’t fully fund the program this fall. Now some students won’t be able to participate. — CNN

Massachusetts officials unsure what to do with headstone for Confederate troops

Massachusetts officials earlier this year boarded up a monument listing the names of 13 Confederate troops who died as prisoners of war on Fort Warren on Georges Island. Officials say there have been no calls to remove the monument but that may be because few people are even aware that it is there. They say they’d like to remove the marker but may not be able to since Fort Warren is a National Historic Landmark. — Boston Globe

More laptops, but not much more learning

Fifteen years ago, Maine became the first, and still only, state to offer a statewide laptop program to students in middle school and high school. The program costs about $12 million annually (around 1 percent of the state’s education budget), but Maine has yet to see any measurable increases on statewide standardized test scores. That’s part of why Maine’s current governor, Paul LePage, has called the program a “massive failure.” — National Public Radio

Pigs saved from fire served to firefighters as sausage

A British farmer thanked firefighters who rescued a litter of piglets and two sows from a barn fire in February by giving them sausages made out of the animals. Farmer Rachel Rivers thanked the Pewsey fire station with sausages from the pigs they rescued six months ago when a barn on her farm in England caught fire. — USA Today

Camping World CEO tells Trump supporters to shop elsewhere

Marcus Lemonis, CEO of recreational vehicle-maker Camping World, had some choice words for those who may support President Donald Trump’s response to the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., telling them, “Don’t shop at my business.” — CNBC

Syphilis on the rise

Nearly 24,000 cases of early-stage syphilis were reported in the United States in 2015, the year for which the most recent data are available. That was a 19 percent rise over the previous year. — The New York Times