By La Monica Everett-Haynes, University Communications Jonathan Walter's award-winning piece is seemingly a story of numbers, but not in the literal sense. The main character in Walter's story, high-school-age Ryan, is consumed with numbers. He keeps time by counting seconds,…

Pharmaceutical Companies Allegedly Marketed the Drug Natrecor for a Use Not Approved by the Food and Drug Administration WASHINGTONThe United States has intervened in two whistleblower suits filed in the Northern District of California against the drug manufacturer Scios Inc.…

On February 19 and 20, the Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested four animal rights extremists suspected of terrorizing University of California researchers. A complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco on Thursday alleged Adriana Stumpo, 23, of Long Beach,…

Temecula, Calif. During the past 10 days, more than 200 pounds of cocaine were seized from vehicles traveling northbound on Interstate 15 in Temecula. The latest seizure took place yesterday, when agents discovered 25 kilograms of the drug stashed in…

Rear of a pickup truck filled with bundles of marijuana. Yuma, Arizona Utilizing a strategic combination of infrastructure, technology, and personnel, United States Border Patrol agents from the Yuma Station apprehend two vehicles and seize more than two tons of…

WASHINGTON The Hain Celestial Group Inc, a West Chester, Penn. firm, is recalling approximately 983,700 pounds of frozen chicken entrees in commerce because they contain peanut products recalled by the Peanut Corporation of America, which is the focus of a…

SAN FRANCISCO The Union Pacific Railroad Company and BNSF Railway Company has agreed to pay a total of $985,000 in cleanup costs at the Brown & Bryant Superfund site in Arvin, California, located at 600 South Derby Road under a…

Season Premiere to Air Monday, March 9 Nashville, TN RCA Nashville hit recording artist Chuck Wicks is among the celebrity competitors poised to take to the dance floor for the eighth season of the enduringly popular ABC series, Dancing with…

At approximately 2:00 p.m. on Sunday February 15, 2009, Roosevelt homeowners Gary and Katie Thompson decided to take visiting daughter Chrissy and her boyfriend Chris out hiking along a waterfall that had formed near the Roosevelt Dam. Gary and Katie…

Attorney General Terry Goddard filed a judgment against Bayer Corporation resolving claims that the company misled women with television advertisements claiming that its popular oral contraceptive, Yaz, is effective for alleviating PMS. The judgment settles allegations that two direct-to-consumer television…

TUCSON, Arizona. - On February 11, 2009, a federal grand jury in Tucson returned a sixty-eight count indictment against ten defendants for violations of Conspiracy and False Statements in the Acquisition of Firearms from Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers. The defendants…

The ASU Academic Bowl winning team from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was nudged out of a regional championship by the University of California, Los Angeles, at the Feb. 7 tournament. Following a close rematch in the final…