Spartan Echo

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

    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 [...]

    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia pays the highest average full-time faculty salaries in the state, while full-time faculty at Washington & Lee earn the second-highest average salaries, a report released Monday said. Full-time faculty members across all ranks at U.Va. earn an average $109,400. The average salary at Washington & [...]

  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — New questions are confronting the university that Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes attended amid disclosures that a psychiatrist warned campus police a month before the deadly assault that Holmes was dangerous and had homicidal thoughts. Court documents made public Thursday cited Dr. Lynne Fenton, a psychiatrist at the University [...]

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Liberty University’s Board of Trustees has loosened the school’s weapons policy to allow firearms inside all campus facilities except dormitories. The university previously allowed guns on campus but not inside buildings. The revised policy, which was unanimously approve by the board, went into effect March 22. “I think it’s good that [...]