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UI officials react to VT findings
12:07 AM 9/4/2007 — A report released last week by a committee appointed by the governor of Virginia condemned administrators at Virginia Tech for their failure to notify the campus of shootings in a dormitory early on April 16, according to The Associated Press. Officials have defended their actions, saying that they could not have known the shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, would attack again that day, killing 31 students and faculty members.
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Asiantation allows bonding through collective ethnicity
11:59 PM 9/3/2007 — Fourteen years ago, a group of Asian American students on campus started Asiantation, an annual program that opens doors for the Asian American community and allows students to teach, learn and work together to become more involved on campus.
This year, Asiantation will be held at 6 p.
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Study challenges Bush's assessment of war
3:52 PM 9/4/2007 — WASHINGTON- Baghdad has not met 11 of its 18 political and security goals, according to a new independent report on Iraq that challenges President Bush's assessment on the war.
The study, conducted by the Government Accountability Office, was slightly more upbeat than initially planned.
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Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes make landfall
4:12 PM 9/4/2007 — CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico- Felix walloped Central America's remote Miskito coastline and Henriette slammed into resorts on the tip of Baja California as a record-setting hurricane season got even wilder Tuesday with twin storms making landfall on the same day.
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Bush may cut troops in Iraq
11:26 PM 9/3/2007 — AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq - President Bush raised the possibility Monday of U.S. troop cuts in Iraq if security continues to improve, traveling here secretly to assess the war before a showdown with Congress.
The president was joined by his war cabinet and military commanders at an unprecedented meeting in Iraq over eight hours at this dusty military base in the heart of Anbar province, 120 miles west of Baghdad.
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Police seek out suspect in hit-and-run accident
5:11 PM 9/4/2007 — The Champaign Police Department has issued a warrant for the registered owner of a vehicle believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed 76-year-old William C. Higdon.
Police have now requested the help of the community in finding Diosdada Resendes.
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High rent no guarantee of good service
11:30 PM 9/3/2007 — As cranes, road closures and advertisements for new residential property crowd Green Street, the promise of "luxury housing" is luring some students to above average accommodations, including top quality interiors and pre-installed electronics.
Ester Patt, coordinator of the Tenant Union, warns against paying high rent with the expectation of outstanding service.
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Cook County judge delays R. Kelly child porn trial
4:31 PM 9/4/2007 — CHICAGO- A Cook County judge postponed - yet again - the trial of Chicago singer R. Kelly.
The 40-year-old R&B superstar was set to go to trial Sept. 17 on child pornography charges, but Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan delayed the start date because the lead prosecutor, Assistant State's Attorney Shauna Boliker, recently had a baby.
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Sorority recruitment process under way
5:12 PM 9/4/2007 — On an average day, colliding Illini football helmets and masculine grunts can be heard inside Irwin Indoor Football Facility. Thursday night, however, these sounds were replaced with softer voices of sorority members speaking to nearly 1,200 Potential New Members.
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Bridge condition details not easy to find, decipher
10:59 PM 9/3/2007 — SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinoisans who want to know about the safety of local bridges can't get the information easily. Deciphering what they do get is even harder.
The Illinois Department of Transportation won't release inspection reports that provide detailed information about bridge conditions.
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Tourists flee from nearing hurricane
11:35 PM 9/3/2007 — SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - Planes shuttled tourists from island resorts in a desperate airlift Monday as Hurricane Felix bore down on Honduras and Belize. But thousands of Miskito Indians were stranded along a swampy coastline where the Category 4 storm was expected to make landfall.
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Rate of younger college students increasing
1:07 AM 5/6/2008 — A new trend has begun to emerge with high school students: going to college early. Click on the icon to hear The Daily Illini's Sydney Langford bring you more on the story.
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Musharraf seeking power-sharing pact
10:58 PM 9/3/2007 — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will make a final attempt to seal a power-sharing deal with exiled former Premier Benazir Bhutto that could keep him in power, a senior official said Monday.
Envoys for Musharraf and Bhutto will meet Monday evening or Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Dawn News television.
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Obama critiques Sen. Clinton, divisive Washington politics
10:56 PM 9/3/2007 — MANCHESTER, N.H. - Democrat Barack Obama on Monday sharpened his critique of lead rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, warning against a return to "divisive, special interest politics" that had demoralized the country even before President Bush took office.
"As bad as this administration has been, it's going to take more than just a change in parties to truly turn this country around," Obama told supporters at a Labor Day rally.
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U.N. secretary-general to visit Sudan in hopes of instituting peacekeeping units
12:01 AM 9/4/2007 — KHARTOUM, Sudan - Secretary-General 2 Ki-moon is in Sudan to "give a push" for a new round of talks to end the four-year regional conflict and mobilize support for the speedy deployment of a new 26,000-member peacekeeping force, a top U.N. official said Monday.
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Odds and Ends: Wis. may exempt K-9 units from poop scooping law
10:51 PM 9/3/2007 — MADISON, Wis. - The city's pooper scooper law applies to everyone, even police officers on mounted patrol and K-9 unit duty - but a new statute may allow them to start leaving the evidence behind. An ordinance amendment to be taken up Tuesday is aimed at making it easier for the city to increase its use of mounted police patrols.
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Police report
10:55 PM 9/3/2007 — Champaign A 19-year-old man and an 18-year-old Homer, Ill., man were reported for retail theft at Wal-Mart, 2117 Prospect Ave., the morning of Aug. 26. According to a police report, the men had concealed two laptop computers in a fan box and left the store without paying for them.
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