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Faced with the sudden reality that their semesters would likely be ending, many Middlebury students spent their nights before the mandatory Covid-19-related evacuation partying, drinking and vandalizing the campus and town in abundance. Damage has included broken glass, stolen signs, strewn garbage, smashed furniture and windows, and items thrown into trees. Facilities staff are spending the weekend cleaning up messes across campus...

LITTLE FALLS, Minn. (AP/WCCO) — The Little Falls, Minn. man who shot and killed two teenagers after they broke into his home has been found guilty of all four counts of premeditated murder. After roughly three hours of deliberation, the jury found 65-year-old Byron Smith guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder for the shooting deaths of 18-year-old Haile Kifer and 17-year-old Nick Brady.

Roseville police arrested a man and two women early today who were reportedly stealing "Yes on Proposition 8" signs from residents' yards. Officers recovered 53 signs from the suspects' vehicle - all in support of Proposition 8, said Dee Dee Gunther, police department spokeswoman. The arrests occurred about 12:32 a.m. after a resident in the 200 block of Sierra Boulevard spotted someone taking a sign out of a neighbor's yard. A few minutes later an officer spotted a green sedan, matching the description of the suspect vehicle in the 700 block of Shasta Street. All four doors and the...

Mike Herchenbach was sure he would get a fine. He’d pay a couple hundred dollars, like his roommates, and go on with his life, even though he wasn’t at the party that got out of hand at his rental house. After all, his name was on the lease. But what he didn’t expect, and hardly believed, was what Lancaster County Court Judge Gale Pokorny had in mind as his punishment for maintaining a disorderly house last Oct. 2. Herchenbach remembered his attorney from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reaching for a work-release form, which would get him out of jail so...

Generation X is the lost generation. We don't care about important things. We don't want to learn about history. We're a lazy bunch of do-nothings who expect to be awarded - not rewarded - with prosperity and wealth. We're a video-game culture that only cares about being entertained. At least, that's the view of many of our elders. It's probably perpetuating that stereotype to admit this, but I'm going to anyway: My political views are shaped as much by comedy routines as they are actual politics. I'm not talking about how I feel about individuals, but how I feel about...

<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A pair of drug suspects mistakenly claimed two packages of human organs instead of the 140 pounds of marijuana that had brought them to the airport, federal authorities said Tuesday.</p> <p>Tabatha Bracken, 27, of Canada, and Dalvan Robinson, 43, of Lockport, N.Y., were arrested about midnight after attempting to exchange the medical packages for the ones containing the drugs, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.</p>

Paul Dean, the 17-year-old son of Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, will take part in a court diversion program for his role in the burglary of a Vermont country club. According to the Associated Press, police have pegged Dean as the getaway driver, having questioned the teen while he sat in a car waiting for four buddies to steal beer and champagne from the Burlington Country Club on June 20. "I think this is a good outcome for Paul and for his friends, and that's what the program is designed for," Howard Dean told reporters after meeting with an official...

The facts are this: a substance was found in Nicholl's shoe, not on her person. the rehab wanted to settle this internally but a patient called the cops......Sounds like a dem plant working overtime to me