Spartan Echo

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 [...]

  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 [...]

    CYPRESS, Texas (AP) — A 20-year-old student who told police he had fantasized for years about stabbing people to death went on a rampage with a knife at a suburban Houston community college, hurting more than a dozen people, authorities said. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said that about 11:20 a.m. Tuesday, Dylan [...]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional inaction could end up costing college students an extra $5,000 on their new loans. The rate for subsidized Stafford loans is set to increase from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1, just as millions of new college students start signing up for fall courses. The difference between the two rates [...]

  Norfolk State University is sponsoring a program to make students aware of high risk behaviors and how to avoid them.  Excessive drinking or binge drinking may be one of the most common high risk behaviors that college students engage in.  Spartan Echo TV reporter Jasmine Amiker takes a look at alchohol use and abuse [...]

  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Carmen Ricotta knows being a college graduate could mean higher pay and better job opportunities, and it’s not like St. Louis Community College hasn’t been practically begging her to wrap up her two-year degree. The school has been calling and emailing the 28-year-old electrician’s apprentice to get her to return [...]

  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Iconoclastic director Harmony Korine unveiled what may be one of the most twisted spring break movies in recent memory with a screening heralded by a roving motorcade of scooter drivers in bikinis and ski masks and lasting into the wee hours Monday at the South by Southwest film festival. “Spring [...]

  OBERLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scrawls of racially offensive graffiti and, more recently, a report of someone wearing what looked like a Ku Klux Klan-type hooded robe on campus have shaken students at historically liberal Oberlin College, one of the nation’s first universities to admit blacks. Two students are being investigated for possible involvement in [...]

  Students choose Norfolk State University for many different reasons.  Spartan Echo TV reporter Ashley Dillard talked with some Norfolk State students and found out that most are happy with the decision they made.      

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Georgia has executed a 38-year-old inmate convicted of killing two college students in 1995. Andrew Allen Cook was pronounced dead at 11:22 p.m. Thursday. The two Mercer University students were shot several times as they sat in a car at Lake Juliette. Cook apologized to both his family and the victims’ families. [...]