the new principal of the alternative Traverse City High School next year. Board members were hesitant to take action to close the facility, whose staff worked hard at keeping "at risk" students in school. However, they were convinced to do so after

to miss 24 of their 37 shots (35 percent). It was the first meeting between Syracuse, the second seed in the South Region, and South Alabama, the seventh seed. Syracuse last appeared in the NIT in 2002 and beat St. Bonaventure and Butler at home and

Oil prices gained Thursday on figures showing that supplies of U.S. gasoline and other refined products fell in the most recent week, and ahead of an OPEC meeting later in the day.The market also got a lift from Wall Street's recovery from its plunge

the case.Our South Asia correspondent, Peter Lloyd, reports that last August, 17 Tamil employees of the French charity Action Against Hunger were murdered, during intense fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels. Truce monitors have

and medium-sized businesses MKB-Nederland have submitted to the committee that the cabinet has charged with drawing up an action plan for education. The quality of education must be significantly improved, say the employers in their 'quality agenda for

effort he would demand from even his most talented, dependable players. Senior Earl Calloway saw one minute of action after halftime. Roderick Wilmont played two minutes as Sampson gave a pair of freshman and a walk-on the chance to bring the team back

as a result of its role in executing the short sales. The case grew out of an earlier action involving individual brokers. In 2003, brokers Ethan Weitz and Robert Altman agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle charges that they had engaged in short