The New York Times reported Wednesday on the tape that a survivor of the Kent State shooting released to the press. The tape might reveal that the Ohio national guard ordered the shooting of students protesting the Vietnam war.
The Associated Press reported Sunday that a San Francisco area freeway overpass collapsed after a gasoline tanker crashed. The heat from the flames melted part of the freeway and caused the collapse.
The New York Times also reported Sunday on the disaster, which will severely affect traffic flow in the bay area, according to California officials.
The Associated Press reported Thursday in a story in the Star Tribune that Marilee Jones, dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, resigned after acknowledging she overstated her academic credentials.
The New York Times reported the story Friday. Jones had worked at M.I.T for 28 years, first in an entry level position in the admissions office and since 1997 as dean. She recently co-wrote a book titled “Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond,� with a pediatrician, Dr. Kenneth R. Ginsburg. She made her mark in the admissions office by encouraging students with less than perfect applications to apply.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that a House Judiciary subcommittee authorized subpoenas for several top Bush aides, including Karl Rove, pertaining to the investigation of the firing of eight US attorneys.
An Associated Press report was published in both the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press about the subpoenas.
The full Judiciary Committee may authorize the subpoenas, that would compel Rove, Harriet Miers, their deputies, and Kyle Sampson, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales former Chief of Staff. Sampson resigned last week, and many senators and congressmen and women are calling for the resignation of Gonzales as well.
The New York Times reported Saturday on the crash that killed 4 baseball players from Bluffton University in Ohio.
In the Star Tribune on the same day, there was an Associated Press story about the reaction from students and faculty at the college, a small Mennonite-affiliated university.
The Pioneer Press, and the Star Tribune carried the same Associated Press article that reported on the frequency of accidents at the site where the bus crashed.
The Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press both published Associated Press reports Tuesday about the shootings at a Utah mall.
The New York Times also printed a piece about the shooting.
Turner Broadcasting has apologized for the publicity stunt turned bomb scare Wednesday in Boston and is willing to compensate state and local governments for the cost of investigating the dozens of blinking devices reported to the police.
The devices were part of a marketing campaign for the Cartoon Network show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Both CNN and Cartoon Network are owned by Turner Broadcasting.
The apology and settlement plans were also reported in the New York Times.
Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of creating panic by placing the devices that citizens took to be homemade bombs.
The lawsuit brought against Berdovsky and Stevens could be hard to prove, according to the Associated Press in a piece published Friday in the New York Times. Legal experts in that article are quoted, saying that prosecutors in the case must prove that the men intended to cause fear when placing the devices and that the devices actually looked dangerous.
Today the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that new rules for air travelers returning to the United States will require them to have passports.
The story ran in the local news section of the paper. The reporter, Ellen Tomson, took a very straightforward approach with the lead, telling readers who will need a passport and when they will need it.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune also reported on this story, but chose instead to run an Associated Press report from Washington. The AP used a delayed lead; most of the information is in the second paragraph.
The story was located in the Nation section of the newspaper's Web site.