YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced a student activist to 6 1/2 years in jail, a week after his father received a 65-year prison term for his own political activities and a decade after his grandfather died in custody.

LONDON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A British university student said he spent a day glued to a giant billboard to help promote a bestselling book, "This Diary Will Change Your Life."

One of four N.C. State University students who had admitted to painting racially charged graffiti in the University's Free Expression Tunnel issued an apology Wednesday. The apology came hours before the N.C. State student senate, meeting in a special session Wednesday evening, voted to issue a resolution condemning the racist graffiti that was spray-painted a day after the presidential ...

Catawba County sheriff's investigators are looking into the off-campus death of a Lenoir-Rhyne University student Monday. Sheriff David Huffman said university officials called his office Wednesday morning, saying a student had died Monday evening and requesting an investigation. Huffman said investigators are questioning students who were with Harrison Kowiak, 19, of Tampa, Fla., when he was ...

RALEIGH (AP) - One of four North Carolina State University students who admitted painting racially-charged graffiti has apologized. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that Wednesday's apology came before the student senate voted for a resolution condemning the graffiti. It was painted in the school's Free Expression Tunnel a day after the election. The student has not been publicly ...

A 12-year-old Philadelphia student has been suspended and charged with attempted rape after a 24-year-old teacher at the Beeber Middle School said she was attacked, authorities said.

David Bray II, 41, is accused of entering an unlocked Oxford home and raping an 18-year-old Miami University student.

KUALA TERENGGANU, Nov 20 (Bernama)-- A student of a secondary school here pleaded guilty in the Magistrate Court here today to ramming his motorcycle into a policeman at a petrol station in an incident on Nov 13. The Form Two student, from Kampung Tanjung Gelang Mengabang Telipot here, admitted committing the offence before the Registrar of the Magistrate Court/Traffic Md ...