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• Storm dumps snow on Rockies, plains, more forecast (AP)
• Ohio universities focusing on advanced energy (AP)
• Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close (AP)
• Bob Barker donates $1M for animal rights professor (AP)
• Sector Snap: For-profit education providers sink (AP)
• Feds: Haiti abuse suspect sought boys while in US (AP)
• Miss. foundation breaks ground on building project (AP)

Storm dumps snow on Rockies, plains, more forecast (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:34 PM PDT AP - A storm bringing the first heavy snows of autumn to a large portion of the Rockies and western plains crippled parts of Colorado and Wyoming Wednesday, forcing road closures and sending students home from school as more than 2 feet piled up with much more expected.

Ohio universities focusing on advanced energy (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:17 PM PDT AP - The state is asking eight Ohio universities to share their knowledge about advanced energy in an effort to help the state emerge as a world leader in the field and create a "green-collar" work force, officials announced Wednesday.

Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:38 PM PDT AP - Across the country schools are closing by the dozen as officials say they're being hit so hard by swine flu that they feel shutting down for a few days is the only feasible option.

Bob Barker donates $1M for animal rights professor (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 11:33 AM PDT AP - Former television game show host Bob Barker, who ended episodes of "The Price is Right" by asking viewers to spay and neuter their pets, donated $1 million to Drury University to establish a professorship on animal rights that he hopes will lead to a full undergraduate degree program.

Sector Snap: For-profit education providers sink (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:55 AM PDT AP - Shares of for-profit education companies tumbled Wednesday a day after Apollo Group Inc., one of the largest and oldest of the companies, said the Securities and Exchange Commission had launched an "informal inquiry" into its revenue accounting practices, its second SEC probe this year.

Feds: Haiti abuse suspect sought boys while in US (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:41 AM PDT AP - Federal prosecutors say a Colorado man charged with sexually abusing nine boys at a school he founded in Haiti was using his computer while in the United States to search for boys.

Miss. foundation breaks ground on building project (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:29 AM PDT AP - The Jackson State University Development Foundation, Inc., has broken ground on a multimillion-dollar construction project that will include luxury apartments and retail space.

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