<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
     xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
     version="2.0">
   <channel>
      <atom:link href="http://feeds.benningtonbanner.com/mngi/rss/CustomRssServlet/509/204515.xml"
                 rel="self"
                 type="application/rss+xml"/>
      <title><![CDATA[Bennington Banner: News in Depth]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/]]></link>
      <description/>
      <language>en</language>
      <category domain="Media News Group">News</category>
      <ttl>15</ttl>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Summer travel forecast: Better, but no blowout]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/nationworldnews/ci_23320076/summer-travel-forecast-better-but-no-blowout?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/nationworldnews/ci_23320076/summer-travel-forecast-better-but-no-blowout?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Saturday May 25, 2013    
NEW YORK (AP) -- This summer, high rollers are flying to lavish hot spots for their vacations. The rest of us are driving to less luxurious places like nearby campgrounds.



The good news: At some U.S. campgrounds these days you get live bands, air guitar contests and chocolate pudding slip &lsquo;n slides.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 24 May 2013 22:02:41 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312096/scouts-approve-plan-accept-openly-gay-boys?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312096/scouts-approve-plan-accept-openly-gay-boys?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Friday May 24, 2013    
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -- In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization.



Gay adults will remain barred from serving as Scout leaders.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 May 2013 22:51:05 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Kids, teachers from devastated school reunite]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312097/kids-teachers-from-devastated-school-reunite?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312097/kids-teachers-from-devastated-school-reunite?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Friday May 24, 2013    
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Students from a suburban Oklahoma City elementary school destroyed by this week's tornado reunited with their teachers Thursday and collected whatever could be salvaged from the ruins.



Some children carried thank-you cards. A first-grader was eager to see her favorite gym teacher and for a chance to say goodbye for the school year.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 May 2013 22:50:14 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Hobby Lobby tests federal birth-control coverage mandate]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312098/hobby-lobby-tests-federal-birth-control-coverage-mandate?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312098/hobby-lobby-tests-federal-birth-control-coverage-mandate?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Friday May 24, 2013    
DENVER (AP) -- In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 May 2013 22:49:27 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Nixon library hosts reunion for Vietnam POWs]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312100/nixon-library-hosts-reunion-vietnam-pows?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312100/nixon-library-hosts-reunion-vietnam-pows?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Friday May 24, 2013    
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) -- U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Doug Burns was on a night reconnaissance mission searching for enemy trucks when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War.



Burns broke three vertebrae when he ejected into a flooded rice paddy and spent the first weeks of his captivity strapped to a concrete pallet and then]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 May 2013 22:46:39 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Defense releases photos, texts of Trayvon Martin]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312101/defense-releases-photos-texts-trayvon-martin?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312101/defense-releases-photos-texts-trayvon-martin?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Friday May 24, 2013    
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Data released Thursday by the defense from slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin's cellphone includes texts with a friend about fighting, smoking pot and being forced to move out of his mother's house because of trouble at school, as well as photos of a gun and what looks to be a potted marijuana plant.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 May 2013 22:46:09 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Muslim hard-liners ID suspect in London attack on soldier]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312102/muslim-hard-liners-id-suspect-london-attack-soldier?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312102/muslim-hard-liners-id-suspect-london-attack-soldier?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Friday May 24, 2013    
LONDON (AP) -- A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hard-liners said Thursday.



Police raided houses in connection with the brazen slaying of the off-duty soldier, identified as Lee]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 May 2013 22:45:35 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Study finds frogs are vanishing at high rate]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312118/study-finds-frogs-are-vanishing-at-high-rate?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312118/study-finds-frogs-are-vanishing-at-high-rate?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Friday May 24, 2013    
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good.



The U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday that populations of frogs, salamanders and toads have been vanishing from places where they live at a rate of 3.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 May 2013 22:45:15 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312119/nasa-head-views-progress-asteroid-lasso-mission?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312119/nasa-head-views-progress-asteroid-lasso-mission?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Friday May 24, 2013    
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore. 



Bolden checked on the progress Thursday a month after the Obama administration unveiled its 2014 budget that proposes $105 million to]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 May 2013 22:42:09 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[WHO: red tape mars efforts vs. virus]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312120/who-red-tape-mars-efforts-vs-virus?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312120/who-red-tape-mars-efforts-vs-virus?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Friday May 24, 2013    
GENEVA (AP) -- International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday.



Dr.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 May 2013 22:39:37 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Sweden's riots raise questions about inequality, social problems]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312127/swedens-riots-raise-questions-about-inequality-social-problems?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_23312127/swedens-riots-raise-questions-about-inequality-social-problems?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Friday May 24, 2013    
HUSBY, Sweden (AP) -- Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 May 2013 22:36:50 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/nationworldnews/ci_23303499/man-shot-death-while-questioned-boston-probe?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/nationworldnews/ci_23303499/man-shot-death-while-questioned-boston-probe?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Thursday May 23, 2013    
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities early Wednesday after he turned violent while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, officials said.



Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter, was gunned down at his Orlando townhouse during a meeting with an FBI agent and two]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 May 2013 22:15:12 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Mais non! French universities may teach in English]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/nationworldnews/ci_23303498/mais-non-french-universities-may-teach-english?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/nationworldnews/ci_23303498/mais-non-french-universities-may-teach-english?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Thursday May 23, 2013    
PARIS (AP) -- France&rsquo;s National Assembly is taking up an education reform bill that would allow public universities to hold some courses -- like science or economics classes -- in English, a plan that has alarmed language purists and the political far-right alike. 



President Francois Hollande&rsquo;s Socialist-led government is pushing the idea to better]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 May 2013 22:15:11 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Doctors save Ohio boy by &lsquo;printing&rsquo; an airway tube]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/nationworldnews/ci_23303494/doctors-save-ohio-boy-by-lsquo-printing-rsquo?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/nationworldnews/ci_23303494/doctors-save-ohio-boy-by-lsquo-printing-rsquo?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Thursday May 23, 2013    
In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.



It&rsquo;s the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 May 2013 22:15:04 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title><![CDATA[Oklahoma tornado damage: Thousands of homes, $1.5-$2B]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/nationworldnews/ci_23303490/oklahoma-tornado-damage-thousands-homes-1-5-2b?source=rss]]></link>
         <guid><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/nationworldnews/ci_23303490/oklahoma-tornado-damage-thousands-homes-1-5-2b?source=rss]]></guid>
         <description><![CDATA[Thursday May 23, 2013    
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- The tornado that ripped through an Oklahoma City suburb this week may have created $2 billion or more in damage as it tore through as many as 13,000 homes, multiple schools and a hospital, officials said Wednesday as they gave the first detailed account of the devastation.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:39 EDT]]></pubDate>
      </item>
   </channel>
</rss>