Highly touted Athletics prospect Grant Desme retires from baseball to enter priesthood

Top Athletics prospect retires to enter priesthood

Quinn fills out Buffalo staff by hiring Dietzel to coach DBs, special teams

Buffalo hires Dietzel to coach DBs, special teams

Activists decry decision to exclude foreign students from U. of Wis. research assistants union

U. of Wis. foreign students excluded from union

Avoiding parents’ pitfalls: Recession sparks push for students to learn about personal finance

Interest up in students learning personal finance

Teen violist alleges beating by plainclothes Pittsburgh police; 3 officers reassigned

Teen violist alleges Pittsburgh police brutality

University of California regents approve stadium retrofit and lab construction in Berkeley

Cal approves Berkeley stadium retrofit, energy lab

Police say 9-year-old boy found hanged in Texas school bathroom; no criminal charges expected

Police: Boy found hanged in Texas school bathroom

Embroiled in Gandhi row, Goa varsity official offers to quit

PANAJI - Goa University’s registrar Friday offered to resign after he was cornered by irate university students for allowing three political meetings of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on the varsity campus on Tuesday (Jan 19).

West Bengal, Arunachal fair poor in education survey

NEW DELHI - There is a marked improvement in the basic education scenario in the country as most children get access to schools with exceptions to states like Arunchal Pradesh and West Bengal, which are lagging behind, a government survey released Friday said.

La. officials ask if district chief should pay for misuse of state vehicle for personal trips

La. officials question schools chief use of SUV

Chandigarh to spend Rs.114 mn on schools

CHANDIGARH - The Chandigarh administration will spend Rs.114.4 million (Rs.11.44 crore) on the development of nearly 110 government schools here, an official said Friday.

Indo-Canadian gets top post in Canada’s top university

TORONTO - Indo-Canadian Hargurdeep Saini was appointed vice president of the University of Toronto, Canada’s biggest university, Thursday.

Parents, children anxious as Bihar extends school closure

PATNA - The biting cold in Bihar, which has forced the government to extend the closure of schools, has left parents and students worried. Now schools will reopen Jan 25 if the state gets some respite from the cold, an official said Friday.