Colleges pledge to graduate additional 4 million

Nearly 500 public colleges that account for three-quarters of all four-year college students pledged Tuesday to produce a combined 3.8 million additional graduates by 2025, an ambitious target that would help bring the United States closer to its goal of regaining its lost global lead in college attainment.



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Border Patrol agent shot dead on duty in Arizona

NACO, Arizona - A Border Patrol agent was shot to death Tuesday in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico line, the first fatal shooting of an agent since a deadly 2010 firefight with Mexican bandits that spawned congressional probes of a botched government gun-smuggling investigation. -á



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Coal-gas plant to cost Indiana consumers $1 billion

INDIANAPOLIS - A utility opposing a planned southern Indiana coal-gasification plant estimates a deal obligating Indiana customers to pay for the plant's gas would add $1.1 billion to utility bills over eight years.


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Court won't hear anti-gay marriage group appeal

PORTLAND, Maine - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a national anti-gay marriage group that tried to thwart Maine's campaign disclosure law requiring it to release its donor list, but it's unlikely the list will be made public soon.


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Minnetrista exhibits feature Civil War history

Throughout the month of October, two exhibits at Minnetrista peer into the past, taking a look at two sides of the Civil War. One focuses on the image of the 16th president and the other on the heartfelt letters from soldiers.



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Boy Scouts to report pedophiles missed previously

PORTLAND, Ore. - The Boy Scouts of America plan to begin doing what critics argue it should have done decades ago - bring suspected abusers named in the organization's so-called perversion files to the attention of police departments and sheriff's offices across the country.








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