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Mississippi Woman Kills One of the Escaped Monkeys

She said she feared for her children's safety

(Newser) - One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi roadway was shot and killed early Sunday by a woman who says she feared for the safety of her children, the AP reports. Jessica Bond Ferguson said she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old...

Escaped Monkeys Were Shot on 'Erroneous Information'

3 rhesus monkeys are still at large after Mississippi crash

(Newser) - A crash on a Mississippi highway led sheriff's deputies to shoot and kill five escaped monkeys after they were wrongly told the animals carried multiple infectious diseases, authorities say. Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson says a truck transporting 21 rhesus monkeys overturned on Interstate 59 when the driver fell...

Sheriff's Office: Warning on Escaped Monkeys Not a Joke

But reports that they were aggressive, infectious may have been overblown

(Newser) - A truck carrying research monkeys crashed on a Mississippi highway Tuesday, unleashing what local authorities initially said were multiple large, "aggressive" monkeys into the wild. In a Facebook post , the Jasper County Sheriff's Office said the rhesus monkeys "are approximately 40lbs, they are aggressive to humans and...

Ancient Roman Tombstone Pops Up in New Orleans Yard

The 1,900-year-old relic is believed to have gone missing from a war-battered museum in Italy

(Newser) - While clearing their backyard of brush, a New Orleans couple stumbled upon a most unexpected find: a 1,900-year-old Roman gravestone and a centuries-old mystery. With help from classicists in New Orleans and Austria, the marble slab with a Latin inscription, discovered in March by Tulane anthropologist Daniella Santoro...

Tulane Player Accused of Georgia Murder

Teshaun Hightower faces multiple charges

(Newser) - Tulane Green Wave player Teshaun Hightower declared for the NBA draft on April 18. Police say he killed a man 10 days earlier. The 22-year-old guard was arrested Saturday and charged with felony murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, ESPN reports. He...

'Gifted' Student Dies in Freak Accident on Spring Break

Margaret Maurer struck by tires detached from tractor-trailer

(Newser) - Tracy Maurer was supposed to visit New Orleans' Tulane University to see her daughter graduate in May. Instead, she'll be planning a funeral for Margaret "Meg" Maurer, per KSTP . The 21-year-old from Forest Lake, Minn., was killed at a highway rest stop in Mississippi on Tuesday in what...

Top 10 Party Schools in the US
These Are the Top 10 Party
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Aug 30, 2016 3:32 PM CDT

These Are the Top 10 Party Schools in the Nation

No Faber College?

(Newser) - With summer pretty much over, it's time for the nation's college students to return to school and get back to the hard business of partying down. And according to the Princeton Review , the following schools are where most of that partying will be getting done. For its annual...

Cops Nab Man Who Tried to Execute Good Samaritan

Euric Cain, 21, is charged with attempted murder, kidnapping

(Newser) - New Orleans police say they've arrested a man accused of shooting a medical student who stopped an apparent kidnapping. A police spokesman says in a brief news release that police and federal marshals arrested 21-year-old Euric Cain of New Orleans at a house late Monday morning. He was wanted...

Dig Reveals Mass Sacrifice of Kids, Llamas

At least 42 children, 76 llamas killed in possible offering to the sea

(Newser) - Physical anthropologist John Verano has seen plenty while working in Peru over the last 30 years. What he came across this summer in the village of Huanchaquito, however, is "not what we've seen before, especially on the coast," he says. Locals noticed bones poking out of a...

Frat Boys Busted for Third-Degree Burn 'Hazing'

Boiling water and pepper spray poured on pledges' backs

(Newser) - Ten Tulane University frat boys face battery charges after taking "Hell Night" hazing way too far and severely burning two pledges, CNN reports. The Pi Kappa Alpha members poured boiling water with pepper spray in it and "crab boil" seasoning mix onto the backs of pledges to see...

25 Schools Out of the Ivies' League
25 Schools Out of the Ivies' League
Aug 15, 2007 1:19 PM CDT

25 Schools Out of the Ivies' League

Sure, you can just apply to Yale, Harvard and Princeton—but why be boring?

(Newser) - It's not all about GPAs and SATs—each of these schools excel in their own way. MSNBC picks the best colleges in 25 quirky categories:
  1. Ivy Leaguer: Cornell University
  2. Sports: University of Florida
  3. Men's college: Morehouse College

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