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Costly trip awaits some Buckeye fans
COLUMBUS (AP) -- Susan Jackson started scouting for tickets to the national championship game right after top-ranked Ohio State beat Michigan in November. She kept tabs on the prices as she waited for the Buckeyes' opponent to be selected, and, finally, she bought three club-level tickets Sunday. The price tag: $9,252, counting the broker's fee and shipping. .
Housingleaderscouldface ax
Saginaw leaders have embattled public housing officials in their crosshairs, but they aren't pulling the trigger -- yet. City Council members learned Monday that state law lets them remove Saginaw Housing Commission members, against whom federal auditors are urging sanctions that include axing some from their jobs. The federal Inspector general's office found leaders of the agency misspent more than a half-million dollars intended for 3,000 of the county's poorest residents. "We don't have to wait for the federal government," said Councilman Larry Coulouris. Coulouris was referring to giving the boot to President Frederick D. Ford and Vice President Al Holiday. A majority of council members can remove a housing commissioner, but only on the mayor's recommendation.
UCLA Senior Wins Britain's Prestigious Marshall Scholarship
UCLA senior William Thomas Clarke"s journey, which led him to win a prestigious Marshall Scholarship that will fund two years of graduate study at England"s University of Oxford and has an estimated value of $60,000, started with a bit of a joke.
Clarke, 21, conducts research in the laboratory of Rachelle Crosbie, a UCLA assistant professor of physiological science who discovered a small protein called sarcospan which seems to play a key role in muscular dystrophy. There is a link between sarcospan and another protein called utrophin; at abnormally high levels in muscle, sarcospan causes increased production of utrophin.
In the laboratory one day, Crosbie, graduate student Angela Peter and Clarke were talking about Kay Davies, a professor at Oxford"s Medical Research Council Functional Genetics Unit and the world"s leading expert on utrophin.
Scholarship account set in Bradford's memory
When Kimberly Ann Holder Bradford died, her family was in shock. Now those family members are banding together to honor their loved one by providing a scholarship in her name to Durant seniors. Bradford was shot to death July 13 at age 42. Her children, Champ, Christian and Elizabeth, along with their father and uncle, have arranged for a Kimberly Holder Bradford Scholarship, in the amount of $500, to be given to one Durant senior per year. Virginia Holder, Bradford's mother, said her daughter had devoted her life to working with children. She began with an in-home daycare before opening the Learning Zone, located on Washington Avenue. At the time of her death, she was working for Smart Start, an organization that works with early childhood educators and parents.
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