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Corn hybrid might grow cheaper
4:28 AM 10/31/2007 — University professors Stephen Moose and Fred Below have discovered that a tropical variety of corn could possibly make ethanol production cheaper and more environmentally friendly.
Tropical corn, a crop grown in certain equatorial regions of the world, is unique because it needs little to no nitrogen in order to grow.
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Mass e-mail warns students of two attempted sexual assaults in campus area
4:33 PM 10/31/2007 — A mass e-mail was sent out Wednesday warning community members about two attempted sexual assaults that occurred in the early morning hours, one of which was near the Quad.
University Police are investigating the two incidents, the first of which occurred at about 1:30 a.m.
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Iraq moves draft law forward to lift security firms' immunity
11:31 PM 10/30/2007 — BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government approved a draft law Tuesday to lift immunity for foreign security companies including Blackwater USA, a bid to overturn a decree imposed more than three years ago by the U.S. official who ran the country after the American-led invasion.
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Fake Halloween teeth said to contain excessive amounts of lead
12:47 PM 10/31/2007 — WASHINGTON- The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced an 11th-hour recall Wednesday to warn consumers that fake Halloween teeth sold by the tens of thousands since last year contain excessive amounts of lead.
The $2 packages of "Ugly Teeth" are only the latest in a long line of Chinese-made toys and novelty items recalled because of lead.
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Drivers licenses to become more secure
10:44 PM 10/30/2007 — Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White is instituting a new design for drivers licenses and identification cards. This coinicides with an upgrade to the technology in the drivers license facilities. White's Deputy Press Secretary Henry Haupt said these changes will make the cards among the most secure in the nation.
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Democratic rivals target Clinton at debate
12:41 PM 10/31/2007 — PHILADELPHIA- Democrats Barack Obama and John Edwards sharply challenged Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's candor, consistency and judgment Tuesday in a televised debate that underscored her front-runner status two months before the first presidential primary votes.
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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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U.S. high court delays death for convict at last minute
11:27 PM 10/30/2007 — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court halted an execution in Mississippi Tuesday, less than an hour before a convicted killer was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection.
The last-minute reprieve for Earl Wesley Berry is the third granted by the justices since they agreed late last month to decide a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection procedures.
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Suicide blast in Pakistan kills 7 people
10:48 PM 10/30/2007 — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A bomber blew himself up about a quarter-mile from President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's office Tuesday, killing seven people and deepening Pakistan's insecurity ahead of crucial elections.
Officials said the attacker detonated his explosives among police at a checkpoint in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, just south of the capital, Islamabad.
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Crew of hijacked ship regains control, receives aid from U.S. Navy destroyer
10:49 PM 10/30/2007 — NAIROBI, Kenya - A U.S. Navy destroyer helped sailors who regained control of their vessel Tuesday in a deadly battle with pirates after the North Korean-flagged ship was hijacked in the piracy-plagued waters off Somalia, the American military said.
The Navy also confirmed that other American warships sank two pirate ships late Sunday after answering a distress call from a hijacked Japanese chemical tanker and said U.
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Strict fire code protects many from Calif. wildfire
10:34 PM 10/30/2007 — RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. - Dr. Jorge Llorente became irritated recently when the fire department kept rejecting his plans to landscape his hacienda-style home with jacarandas and avocado trees.
But he is grateful now.
Those restrictions may well have saved his multimillion-dollar home when a wildfire passed through last week.
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Survivor: 'Only option' was jumping from fire
10:28 PM 10/30/2007 — By PETE IACOBELLI
the associated press
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A student who survived a beach house inferno by leaping from a third-story window said Tuesday he wasn't sure what woke him up, but he had to make the decision to jump quickly because smoke was filling the room.
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Police reports
8:18 PM 10/30/2007 — Champaign A 47-year-old man was issued a notice to appear in court at Circle K, 609 E. University Ave., Oct. 23. According to a police report, the offender shoplifted a can of beer from the business. No arrests had been made at the time of the report. A 22-year-old woman reported motor vehicle theft at the 500 block of Green Street, Sunday morning.
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Odds and ends: Pickle-related assault lands man in jail, ends friendships
8:14 PM 10/30/2007 — NILES, Mich.- Talk about being in a pickle: A judge gave a 35-year-old man probation in a case that police said involved an assault with pickles. According to police reports, the pickle problems began when Bobby Lee Bolen was hanging out at then-friend Jody Lee's home on Aug.
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