From The Associated Press
DENVER – Suspected gang member Willie Clark was found guilty of murder Thursday in the drive-by shooting death of Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams after a New Year’s Eve outing three years ago.
Clark showed no emotion as the verdict was read, but leaned back and looked at the ceiling once the jury [...]

From The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt.
Nathaniel Brown, 51, arrived for work at the nation’s largest university [...]

From The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA – The self-dubbed “Jihad Jane” who thought her blond, all-American profile would help mask her plan to kill a Swedish cartoonist is a rare case of a U.S. woman inciting foreign terrorism and shows the latest evolution of the global threat, authorities say.
The suburban Philadelphia woman, Colleen R. LaRose, was accused [...]

LOS ANGELES – Kathryn Bigelow played field commander to bring her raw, relentless Iraq War thriller The Hurt Locker to the screen.
After her film triumphed at the Academy Awards with six prizes and made her the first woman ever to win the directing Oscar, she graduated to diplomat with her deft handling of some uncomfortable [...]

By Lisa Fernandez, mercurynews.com
Lawrence Wang used to hate the shrill sounds of the flute. He’d clamp his hands over his ears to drown out his sister’s piano playing. During music lessons, he’d fidget and fight with his teacher.
On Saturday, though, he tapped his feet while blowing happily on his saxophone, a member of an unusual [...]

A few weeks ago, The Charger Bulletin went green for a week! Instead of the normal, building-to-building delivery service that normally occurs every Wednesday morning, the paper was instead available online to any curious clicker across campus. Of course since then, The Charger Bulletin has gone back to its normal technologically advanced printing methods: your [...]

OKCULAR, Turkey – A strong, pre-dawn earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people as it knocked down stone and mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, the government said.
The earthquake surprised many people as they slept, crumpling buildings into piles of rubble. Panicked survivors fled [...]

First thing’s first, “Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk?” Make sure to get out to see Alice in Wonderland to find out the answer to this riddle!
Alice’s [Adventures] in Wonderland is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under pseudonym Lewis Carroll in 1865. The popular story is about a girl [...]

Alligators have been known to exist for 200 million years, since the ages of reptiles. There are currently two well known types: American Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) and Chinese Alligators (Alligator sinsensis). The species name originates from the Spanish term “el lagarto” which means “the lizard” when translated in English. The American Alligator can grow up [...]

Now that March is fully underway we can look forward to what March is known for other than St. Patrick’s Day. Growing out of a small-town school event in California, Women’s History Month is a celebration of all of women’s contributions to history, culture, and society. The United States observes it annually throughout the month [...]