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In this Friday, Aug. 26, 2016 photo, Jeremy Shuler, 12, a freshman at Cornell University, looks on during an interview with the Associated Press with his father Andy Shuler, left, and mother Harrey Shuler, in Ithaca, N.Y. While most kids his age are attending middle school, Jeremy has just started his first semester at Cornell University. He’s the youngest student on record to attend the Ivy League school. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Home-Schooled Boy, 12, Is Youngest Student Ever to Attend Cornell

by Mary Esch Associated PressSeptember 5, 2016

This Sept. 30, 2015 aerial photo provided by Cypress Creek Renewables, shows a commercial solar farm built on farmland by Cypress Creek Renewables in Catawba County, N.C. Less than a year after New York banned fracking, dashing the hopes of farmers who had hoped to reap royalties from natural gas leases, the commercial solar industry is courting landowners for energy production. Gov. Andrew Cuomo administration's initiatives aimed at promoting local renewable energy generation, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and generating 50 percent of the state's energy from renewable sources by 2030 are bringing solar developers to the state like Cypress Creek Renewable. (Cypress Creek Renewables via AP)

N.Y. Farmland Eyed for Solar Power

by Mary Esch Associated PressApril 4, 2016