Spartan Echo

    COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Michelle Obama is using an address to college students in Maryland to stress the importance of education to the African-American community. The first lady notes that Bowie State University was founded in 1865 to train black teachers and mentions the “hunger” that the school’s first students felt to be [...]

  BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — At Montana State University, final exams stress is going to the dogs. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/11pDoHV) Intermountain Therapy Animals is bringing dogs to campus this week and next to help students take a break from the stress of studying for and taking semester exams. Jacqueline Frank is the [...]

  Students interested in gaining experience and working on a student publication are encouraged to submit a Spartan “Reflections” Yearbook application. Applications are located on the Norfolk State University web site at https://www.nsu.edu/student-affairs/student-activities/forms. Applications should be sent to dwcrawford@nsu.edu as an email attachment, or submit a printed copy to the Office of Student Activities on the [...]

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — Police arrested three men and sought a fourth Tuesday, April 23, after two Virginia State University freshmen were swept away while trying to cross a swift, rain-swollen river as part of an initiation rite. The body of one freshman, identified as Marvell Edmonson, 19, of Portsmouth, was recovered Monday. The search continued [...]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators say Eric Justin Toth’s five-year run as a fugitive began when he was fired from his teaching job at a prestigious private school in Washington after being confronted about images of child pornography taken with a school camera in the man’s possession. It ended over the weekend when Nicaraguan authorities, [...]

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Many of the relatives of Californians killed in the Sept. 11 attacks never knew that millions of dollars were raised in their name for college scholarships, and now lawmakers want to give them another chance to apply for money that an Associated Press investigation and subsequent audit found was poorly [...]

  SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — The attorney for the family of a 15-year-old Northern California girl who hanged herself after she was allegedly sexually abused by three boys disputed an explanation by the school superintendent of why the boys were not kicked out of school. Saratoga schools Superintendent Bob Mistele said Wednesday the teens [...]

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot and killed at the campus outside Boston, authorities said early Friday. No arrests had been made, and a manhunt was on for the shooter. The officer was responding to report of a disturbance Thursday night when he was shot multiple times, [...]

  CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — The 18-year-old man suspected of shooting and wounding two women at a community college in Virginia is scheduled to make his first court appearance. Neil Allan MacInnis is due in Montgomery County General District Court on Monday. He is being arraigned on four felony charges related to the shooting incident [...]

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — The 18-year-old man suspected of shooting and wounding two women at a community college in Virginia is scheduled to make his first court appearance. Neil Allan MacInnis is due in Montgomery County General District Court on Monday. He is being arraigned on four felony charges related to the shooting incident Friday [...]

GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado community sent into a panic over the kidnapping, killing and dismembering of a 10-year-old girl last fall may learn whether the teenager charged with the crime asks for a trial Friday despite his alleged confession. Austin Sigg, 18, is to enter a plea in the Oct. 5 disappearance and [...]