 |
|
|
FOX 66 News at Ten
School offering help for those short of graduation
A program from Alma College is offering to pay the cost of completing a degree for any student who meets the school's requirements but fails to graduate within four years.
The Detroit Free Press reports Wednesday that the offer is part of a program called the Alma Commitment that goes into effect in the fall of 2013.
The private college located about 50 miles north of Lansing also will make all of its students eligible for a new $2,500 stipend to pursue an internship, a summer research project or some other off-campus study option. The stipend likely will be handed out in a student's junior year.
School leaders say programs similar to the Alma Commitment are in place in a few other places nationwide.
Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Thursday, January 3 2013, 09:02 AM EST
National News Headlines
| Construction worker killed in collapse of Maryland mall parking deck |
A parking garage partially collapsed Thursday outside a shopping mall in suburban Maryland, and officials said one construction worker died after being trapped under a concrete slab. |
| 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California |
An earthquake has struck Northern California's Plumas County with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7. |
| 5.7-magnitude earthquake shakes Northern Calif |
| An earthquake has struck Northern California's Plumas County with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7. |
| Utah boy, 15, arrested in deaths of two younger brothers |
A teenager was arrested Thursday in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home in a Utah subdivision of new houses and tidy lawns, police said. |
| No fatalities in highway bridge collapse in Washington state, authorities say |
The Washington State Patrol says the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River at Mount Vernon has collapsed, dumping vehicles and people into the water. |
| 2 dead in drugstore shootings in Tennessee |
| An East Tennessee pharmacy owner and a customer have been killed during a robbery that left a pharmacy tech and another employee wounded. |
| FBI arrest 37-year-old man in Washington state ricin letter investigation |
The FBI has arrested a suspect in a case involving the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin and says investigators are working "around the clock" to address any remaining risks. |
| RI education board approves arming university cops |
| State education officials have approved allowing the University of Rhode Island to arm its campus police officers. |
| Defense releases photos, texts of Trayvon Martin |
| Data released Thursday by the defense from slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin's cellphone includes texts with a friend about fighting, smoking pot and being forced to move out of his mother's house because of trouble at school, as well as photos of a gun and what looks to be a potted marijuana plant. |
| Judge declares mistrial in penalty phase of Jodi Arias trial |
The judge in the Jodi Arias murder trial declared a mistrial in the penalty phase Thursday after the jury reported for a second time that it was deadlocked on whether to sentence her to life in prison or death for killing her boyfriend in 2008. |
News at Ten Stories
 |
|
|
News Videos
IE6 Float Fix
