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Barack Obama mocks John McCain’s call to fire SEC chief, says vote out GOP in November

Published September 19, 2008

ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP) âÄî Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama promised new ideas Thursday to calm America's financial meltdown and help struggling families avoid mortgage foreclosure, saying...

Details suggest Palin’s e-mail account was vulnerable because hacker impersonated her

Published September 19, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) âÄî Details emerged Thursday behind the break-in of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account, including a first-hand account suggesting it was vulnerable...

Home of ‘Lackawanna 6’ also home to terror victim

Published September 19, 2008

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. (AP) _ Yemeni-Americans in this upstate New York city have seen terrorism from two sides. On Wednesday, one of their own was a victim of global violence, killed with her new husband when...

Bush meets treasury secretary, Fed chief, says he’s working hard on financial turmoil

Published September 19, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) âÄî Eager to show that he feels people's pain, President Bush told the country Thursday his administration is working feverishly to calm turmoil in the financial markets. With reports...

Proposed national center would assist in campus safety

Published September 18, 2008

Congress is considering a bill that would create a National Center on Campus Public Safety , which would be responsible for training schools in public safety techniques. The bill was introduced Sept. 8...

Colon X-ray seen as effective at spotting cancer

Published September 18, 2008

ATLANTA (AP) _ A long-awaited federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers, although it was far from perfect. Medicare is already...

Dean Barkley’s candidacy and what it means in 2008

Published September 16, 2008

Dean Barkley still remembers the first room he lived in when he came to the University in 1968 âÄî Frontier Hall , room 301. Now, the University alumnus and Minnesota native finds himself gaining...

Racing against time, crews try to reach those feared stranded in Hurricane Ike’s floodwaters

Published September 15, 2008

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) âÄî Rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by Ike's storm surge early Sunday morning, racing against time to rescue those who faced a second harrowing night trapped...

Questions follow unusually fast announcement of probable cause in LA deadly rail wreck

Published September 15, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AP) âÄî In a surprisingly swift assessment, the operators of the commuter train involved in the head-on crash that killed at least 25 people blamed its engineer for the horrific accident....

University graduate student Jonathan Pearce won the 4th annual Minnesota Cup Student Competition on Thursday at McNamara Alumni Center. His entry, Zipnosis, allows patients and doctors to conduct secure electronic visits.

Minnesota Cup awards $5,000 to University student

Published September 12, 2008

Electronic diagnosis of that nagging sinus infection or earache just got a little closer to becoming a viable option for patients. Jonathan Pearce is the founder of Zipnosis, which develops software to...

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