ILLINOIS
Law school fined over false admissions data The University of Illinois College of Law has been censured and fined $250,000 for intentionally publishing false admissions information to make the student body look more academically accomplished than it was. It is the first time the American Bar Association has fined a university for reporting inaccurate consumer data.
Man who killed Hudson kin sentenced William Balfour, who was convicted by a Cook County jury in May in the 2008 murders of singer Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
CALIFORNIA
L.A. council bans marijuana shops The Los Angeles City Council voted 14-0 to ban hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries that have cropped up across the city until the state's highest court weighs in on their legality. City officials estimate there could be more than 900 such shops currently open.
GHANA
President dies at 68; cause not released The president of Ghana, John Atta Mills, 68, died at a military hospital in the capital, Accra, five months short of finishing his first term in office. The government gave no details of the cause, but Mills had recently spent eight days in the United States for medical treatment. Mills, a former university economics professor, was narrowly elected at the end of 2008. He was due to run again in December.
RUSSIA
248 human fetuses found in forest Villagers in the southern Urals stumbled upon a gruesome discovery -- four barrels left in a forest containing 248 human fetuses. Police in the Sverdlovsk region said the fetuses, preserved in formaldehyde, were kept in barrels with tags marked with surnames and numbers. The fetuses were found a few miles from a highway linking the region's capital, Yekaterinburg, with another big city, Nizhny Tagil. Police believe that they may have come from four local hospitals.
SOUTH KOREA
President apologizes for scandals President Lee Myung-bak apologized for a string of corruption scandals implicating his relatives and allies that have undermined his political leverage in his last year in office.
NEWS SERVICES
Earhart expedition ends with no answer The fate of aviator Amelia Earhart remains a mystery. The latest expedition failed to find the wreckage of the plane she was flying when she went missing 75 years ago. Earhart, born 115 years ago on Tuesday, and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were lost on their July 2, 1937, flight from New Guinea to Howland Island in the central Pacific Ocean. Earhart was trying to become the first woman to fly around the planet. A $2.2 million expedition led by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery is now working its way back to Hawaii after failing to get the conclusive evidence that it sought about Earhart's disappearance.
