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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) âĂ„Ă® 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...

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) âĂ„Ă® Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama promised new ideas Thursday to calm America's financial meltdown and help struggling families avoid mortgage foreclosure, saying...

Mother to ask Congress to award son Medal of Honor

Published September 19, 2008

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) _ The mother of a Marine who witnesses say covered a grenade with his body to save comrades in Iraq plans to appeal to Congress to award her son the nation's highest military...

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 âĂ„Ă® 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) âĂ„Ă® 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) âĂ„Ă® 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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