The president of Plymouth State University is updating the campus community about the current state of the university.

Eleven adopted and foster children who were forced by an Ohio couple to sleep in cages have reached a $1.2 million settlement with the county where they once lived.

A public memorial service will be held Sunday for Doris "Granny D" Haddock, the campaign finance reform activist who died Tuesday in New Hampshire a decade after walking across the country at age 89.

The arrests of three Providence police officers on drug charges are the latest problems for a department trying to overcome a cheating scandal and other problems under a former chief.

Vermont's jobless rate remained unchanged in January at 6.7 percent. Vermont Labor Commissioner Patricia Moulton Powden said Wednesday that the state's unemployment rate has been on a slight decline since May. She says except for last month seasonally adjusted jobs have been on a slow growth pattern since September.

Workers are breaking up a huge boulder threatening to tumble down a cliff onto Interstate 70 in western Colorado, days after a rock slide that closed the highway indefinitely.

A Georgia judge has dismissed most of the remaining legal claims in a dispute between the children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., months after the siblings reached a settlement.

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: March 6 Loveland (Colo.) Daily Reporter-Herald, on early warning systems in disaster planning:

Many law enforcement officers called up to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan are finding it difficult to readjust to their jobs once home, bringing back heightened survival instincts that may make them quicker to use force and showing less patience toward the people they serve.

Anti-war lawmakers are getting a chance to make their case before facing almost certain defeat of a House resolution calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

Serbian seismologists say an earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale has shaken northern Kosovo, causing brief power outages in some places. There were no immediate reports of damages.

Like the United States, China is having its own tea party movement, but this one has a very different agenda.

A boyfriend of the American woman charged in a foreign terrorism plot says she never showed any Muslim or other religious leanings.

President Michelle Bachelet leaves office on Thursday with a chunk of her country in ruins -- and her popularity in the clouds.

First it was drugs among the flowers. Now, drug traffickers have stuffed real drugs into fake fruit in an effort to smuggle cocaine into the Netherlands, authorities said Wednesday.

European Union governments are calling for a global ban on fishing for Atlantic bluefin tuna at next week's international talks on protecting endangered species.

Haitian President Rene Preval (reh-NAY' preh-VAHL') has visited the White House to thank President Obama and the American people for all the help his country received after January's massive earthquake.

Connecticut's attorney general sued Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's over ratings the agencies issued on risky investments.

Israel's plan to build 1,600 new apartments in contested east Jerusalem has thrown a spotlight on the city at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Maine Gov. John Baldacci has released details of a $79 million bond package that he says "will put people back to work this year."

If there's any question that spring is in the air, computer users can log onto a live Internet camera to see that an eagle has laid eggs in Maine.

A University of Connecticut economist says the state was not hurt as badly by the recession as elsewhere.

Fighting between Islamist insurgents and government forces killed at least 17 people in the Somali capital on Wednesday, a medical official said.

In Canada for a trade mission, representatives of Vermont's two biggest electric utilities hope they can reach agreement on new contracts for power from provincial utility Hydro-Quebec.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday renewed America's commitment to the recovery and reconstruction of earthquake-devastated Haiti, telling visiting President Rene Preval he knows the crisis has not passed.