Mississippi university chancellor refuses deal to extend contract
JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) – The University of Mississippi’s popular chancellor has turned down an offer to extend his contract, after two weeks of on-campus protests against a state board which had threatened to fire him over spending for the school med…
Duke University student admits to putting noose in tree
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – A Duke University student has admitted to placing a noose in a tree on the campus in North Carolina and could be disciplined, a school spokesman said on Thursday.
Pennsylvania girl, 14, charged as adult in mother’s stabbing death
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – A 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl has been charged as an adult for allegedly taking an active role in the stabbing death of her mother and plotting with her soldier boyfriend to murder her father, a prosecutor said on Thursday…
Alabama man to be freed after nearly 30 years on death row
Birmingham, Ala. (Reuters) – A man who has been on death row in Alabama for nearly three decades is expected to walk free on the orders of a local judge, officials said on Thursday.
Arizona teen has only minor injuries after car dives off cliff, lands on her
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A 16-year-old girl driving with friends escaped serious injury after she was ejected from a car that plunged 100 feet (30 meters) off a cliff in northern Arizona, and the vehicle landed on top of her, police said on Thursday.
Autopsy of discredited Rolling Stone story on gang rape out Sunday
(Reuters) – The Columbia University School of Journalism will release on Sunday its review of a now-discredited Rolling Stone story about an alleged University of Virginia fraternity gang rape, the journalism school said on Thursday.
American al Qaeda suspect faces U.S. terrorism charges
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. citizen accused of training with al Qaeda and conspiring to kill Americans abroad appeared in federal court in New York on Thursday to face terrorism charges.
Hearing set in desertion case against ex-U.S. POW Bergdahl
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A preliminary hearing has been set for July 8 in the desertion case against U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a former prisoner of war in Afghanistan held five years before being swapped last summer for five Taliban leaders, the …
Televangelist, megachurch founder Robert Schuller dies at 88
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Televangelist Robert Schuller, who built a California megachurch known worldwide for its weekly “Hour of Power” broadcasts only to see his Crystal Cathedral ministry devolve into bankruptcy and family squabbles, died on Thursday…
Missouri looks at possible Ferguson-style bias in other courts
(Reuters) – The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday widened an investigation into the practices of city courts around the state following its takeover of the Ferguson municipal courts in the days after a U.S. Justice Department report found widespread a…
