Even as the Pentagon has made a major effort to defend against makeshift explosives, the proportion of American deaths caused by them has sharply risen.
As Duke lacrosse players recover from their championship loss to Johns Hopkins last Monday, the returning players found out that the NCAA has granted a fifth year of eligibility to nonseniors from the season that was canceled because of the infamous rape allegations, the Chronicle reports.
In a "mean-spirited" prank, an "elusive" and unidentified man hired three homeless men to paint over a landmark muralon the side of a Chinese restaurant near the University of North Carolina, the Daily Tar Heel reports. Perhaps deciding that sea-foam green was a more apropos look for an establishment named "Jade Palace," a man calling himself "Larry Hayes" picked up the three men and promised to pay them. According to the report, "Larry Hayes" was seen driving away from the scene in a blue Subaru with an Enterprise Rent-A-Car-tag. —Christina Mueller
A new Ohio law will put a crimp in at least one Ohio University student's plans to pay for college, the Post writes. The state Senate passed a law that says exotic dancers must be at least six feet away from patrons at all times, a restriction that would prevent performers from doing private dances and having drinks with patrons—times when they make the majority of their money, says one dancer mentioned in the story. Customers pay up to $300 to share a drink with a dancer, who keeps a percentage of the profit. The legislation, which takes effect in August, is "an attempt to put a 'scarlet letter' on girls in the business," adds the dancer. —A.G.
AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday urged Asian nations to do more to defeat a global terrorist threat and to ensure that Afghanistan not be allowed to slip back into chaos.
AP - Officials in the northern Somali region of Puntland said Saturday that U.S. warships bombarded a remote, mountainous village where Islamic militants had set up a base.
AP - A violent crime spike in four cities led the Justice Department on Friday to dispatch additional teams of federal agents to combat guns, gangs or surging murder rates in Mesa, Ariz.; Orlando, Fla.; San Bernardino, Calif., and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
A tuberculosis patient who may have defied health officials' warnings by going on a wedding trip to Europe appears not to have gotten married, a Greek official said Friday. Andrew Speaker is now in a Colorado hospital suffering from a drug-resistant form of TB. A friend of Speaker's told CNN there were documentation problems in Greece but the couple held a wedding ceremony anyway.
A Brazilian judge Friday indicted two U.S. pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers on manslaughter-related charges stemming from the deadliest air disaster in Brazil's history, court spokesman Fabio Paz said.
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