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• University graduates, grieves six lost students (Reuters)
• Sheriff: School shooting plot in Louisiana foiled (AP)
• Chicago man sentenced to year in prison for bomb threat (Reuters)

University graduates, grieves six lost students (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2011 10:26 AM PDT Reuters - Two days after a tornado took her sister's life in April, Michelle Downs Whatley crossed the stage at her own college graduation wearing her lost sister's shoes, salvaged from the wreckage.

Sheriff: School shooting plot in Louisiana foiled (AP) Posted: 05 Aug 2011 07:31 PM PDT AP - Authorities in suburban New Orleans said Friday they uncovered a plot by three teenagers for "an incredible and devastating" attack at their high school during the first day of classes, with plans for two specific targets, indiscriminate shooting and suicide.

Chicago man sentenced to year in prison for bomb threat (Reuters) Posted: 05 Aug 2011 06:13 PM PDT Reuters - A 19-year-old Chicago man who authorities accused of making a series of bomb threats to Western Illinois University dormitories last fall was sentenced on Friday to a year in federal prison.

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