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Inter-religious dialogue speakers discuss faiths
11:20 AM 3/11/2008 — A group of eight speakers from various religious backgrounds met Thursday night to talk about their traditions of sharing their faith.
The session was the third in a serious of inter-religious dialogues planned by the Intercultural Friendship Foundation, a group that works to promote understanding among people of different cultural and religious backgrounds.
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At least 16 passengers killed after bomb hits bus in southern Iraq; 3 more US soldiers die
11:01 AM 3/11/2008 — BAGHDAD- A roadside bomb hit a bus traveling in southern Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 16 civilians, while gunmen opened fire on another bus in the capital, leaving one person dead, police said. The U.S. military, meanwhile, reported three American soldiers killed Monday by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, bringing to eight the number of troops who died that day.
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CDC study says at least 1 in 4 teen girls has an STD
11:38 AM 3/11/2008 — CHICAGO - At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group.
A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in teen girls aged 14 to 19, while the highest overall prevalence is among black girls - nearly half the blacks studied had at least one STD.
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24 killed in suicide attacks in Pakistan; more than 200 others wounded
12:12 PM 3/11/2008 — LAHORE, Pakistan - Massive suicide bombs ripped through a seven-story police headquarters and a business on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 200 others in attacks that deepened Pakistan's security crisis. The two blasts happened about 15 minutes apart in different districts of this eastern city.
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Incomplete apartments worry tenants
11:22 AM 3/11/2008 — The 309 Green Apartments are one of the most recent housing additions to Campustown, but concerns linger among future tenants as the building's construction is less than halfway completed.
Construction is set to be completed in August 2008, and prospective tenants have already signed leases.
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Mississippi Democrats head to polls, with Obama riding high
10:56 AM 3/11/2008 — GREENVILLE, Miss. - Barack Obama made a final appeal to Mississippi voters as Democrats Tuesday decide the last in a series of presidential contests between Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton before the two rivals settle in for a six-week battle to win Pennsylvania.
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Republicans to push for NY governor's impeachment
11:36 AM 3/11/2008 — ALBANY, N.Y. - A top Republican state lawmaker is threatening to push for impeachment proceedings against Gov. Eliot Spitzer if he doesn't resign in the next 48 hours because of a sex scandal.
Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco says the state can't have the governor's prostitution scandal hanging over its head.
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Central Command chief is resigning under fire
2:21 PM 3/11/2008 — WASHINGTON -The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East resigned Tuesday amid speculation about a rift over U.S. policy in Iran.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that Adm. William J. Fallon had asked for permission to retire and that Gates agreed.
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Conservation groups sue officials
2:11 PM 3/11/2008 — ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Three conservation groups sued the Department of the Interior on Monday for missing a deadline on a decision to list polar bears as threatened because of the loss of Arctic sea ice.
A decision was due Jan. 9, one year after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the animals as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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Robbery at Chase Bank in Urbana
10:12 AM 3/14/2008 — Chase Bank in Urbana reported a robbery Tuesday morning, according to a press release from the Urbana Police Department.
Officers responded at about 10:25 a.m. after the alleged suspect had already left the scene. The suspect left with an undisclosed amount of cash, yet never displayed a weapon on any kind, said police.
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Obama seeks to expand delegate lead in Mississippi primary
2:18 PM 3/11/2008 — JACKSON, Miss. - Barack Obama battled Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Mississippi primary on Tuesday, last in a string of contests across the Deep South and the final tune-up before next month's high-stakes race in Pennsylvania.
There were 33 Democratic National Convention delegates at stake, and Obama looked to regain at least some of the luster he lost a week ago with defeats in three of four primaries.
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Motion to cut voting age to 17 moves on to House
10:17 PM 3/10/2008 — The Illinois House of Representatives Elections and Campaign Reform Committee approved a resolution Feb. 26 to decrease the legal voting age in Illinois to 17 years of age.
The resolution, proposed by state Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie, will now be sent on to the House of Representatives for the next round of voting.
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Gov. Spitzer linked to call girl
10:21 PM 3/10/2008 — NEW YORK - Gov. Eliot Spitzer's political career teetered on the brink of collapse Monday after the corruption-fighting politician once known as "Mr. Clean" was accused of paying for sex with a high-priced call girl. The scandal drew immediate calls for the Democrat to step down.
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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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University study ties children placed in group homes to the juvenile justice system
12:52 AM 3/11/2008 — According to new research from the University's Department of Social Work, children who are placed in group homes are more likely to enter the juvenile justice system for violent and threat-related offenses. Graduate student in social work Jane Marshall helped with the research.
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Professor invents artificial kidney to improve lives
10:02 PM 3/10/2008 — LOS ANGELES - The idea of someone's blood being extracted from his body, filtered and returned while he is jogging, working or even making love may seem absurd to most.
To Victor Gura, an associate clinical professor at UCLA, this concept is very much a reality.
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Cost of summer classes at Parkland to increase slightly
9:13 PM 3/10/2008 — Students choosing to stick around the area over the summer and take a few classes at Parkland College will see the school dip a little deeper into their pockets. Parkland charges tuition based on credit hours, and starting in the summer term that fee will go up from $79 to $84.
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Odds and Ends: In Mexico, collision cancels 800-pound man's date
11:35 AM 3/11/2008 — MEXICO CITY - When Manuel Uribe went out on a date, he made all the necessary arrangements: a forklift to carry him out of the house and a flatbed tow truck big enough to haul the formerly half-ton man and his bed to a party.
But even the open road wasn't big enough to handle Uribe's dream of celebrating a budding romance and his success in losing about 440 pounds.
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Police report
7:28 PM 3/10/2008 — Champaign A 22-year-old woman reported identity theft at Market Place Mall, 2000 N. Neil St., Saturday afternoon. According to a police report, an unknown offender used her personal information to apply for and receive an auto loan to purchase a vehicle. No arrests had been made at the time of the report.
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