AP AEROSPACE WRITER MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)—NASA again started fueling space shuttle Endeavour for the long-awaited mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Wednesday morning's launch attempt had to be scrapped because of high wind,...

Despite an increase in Latino enrollment, their graduation rates are still low. According to a Nov. 5 article in the Daily Herald, Latino enrollment has increased 84 percent from 472,000 in 1980 to 867,000 in 1991. The article also states in 1990, 28...

The Board of Regents is looking at ways to bring faculty salaries up to state and national averages. During its Personnel and Operations Committee meeting Wednesday, the Regents compared faculty salaries at NIU, Illinois State University and Sangamon...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER DENNIS CONRAD SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP)—The key provision of the federal Brady bill, a five-day waiting period to purchase handguns, won't affect Illinois residents directly but it could cut the flow of guns into the state, officials...

The Associated Press How the top 25 teams in The Associated Press' women's college basketball poll fared Wednesday: 1. Tennessee (2-0) did not play. Next: at No. 9 Stanford, Friday. 2. Iowa (2-0) beat Drake 73-64. Next: vs. No. 20 Southwest Missouri State,...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER JAMES MARTINEZ INTERCESSION CITY, Fla. (AP)—Railroad officials may not have been warned about a truck blocking railroad tracks before an Amtrak derailment injured 70 people, one official said Wednesday. One day after Tuesday's...

A proposal for monetary aid for low income and homeless people in DeKalb is on its way to the U.S. Housing and Urban Development office, where it could be approved within the next 30 days. The Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) was signed...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER JULIA PRODIS OYAL OAK, Mich. (AP)—The judge who jailed suicide Dr. Jack Kevorkian rejected a request Wednesday to step down from the case because his first wife committed suicide. ‘‘What happened 20 years ago has no bearing...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER KARIN LAUB EL BIREH, Occupied West Bank (AP)—In the latest assault on the Mideast peace process, Palestinian gunmen killed two Jewish settlers and wounded two others Wednesday as the victims stood by their broken-down car. Two...

You just flunked your first exam or paper. Depressed? Imagine how you would feel if you constantly flunked exams. Sadly, many Americans are constantly in a state of depression. Clinical depression occurs when the "blah" or "down" mood lasts for several...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER JOHN DIAMOND WASHINGTON (AP)—A screaming sorority sister beset by bloodsucking attackers; a fight ending with the removal of the head and spine of the loser. These video game images must be kept from children through parental...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER JAMES RUBIN WASHINGTON (AP)—Airlines grudgingly agreed Wednesday to pay millions of dollars in additional fees for landing in Los Angeles in a deal that averts the threatened closing this weekend of one of America's busiest airports....