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WSU Extends Student Assistance As Aid Backlog Numbers Decline

**Press Release From WSU** PULLMAN, Wash. - Some 2,000 Washington State University students are still without their full financial aid after computer issues early this semester created a backlog in a new financial aid disbursement system. While workers have eliminated a considerable amount of

Father Jumps Into Spokane River To Save Toddler Son

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Authorities say a father jumped into the Spokane River from a bridge to rescue his 23-month-old son after the toddler fell.    The Spokesman Review reports (http://bit.ly/O3EGag) that the boy was taken Thursday to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center with non-

Twitter hands over records in NY Occupy case

By ALEX KATZ and COLLEEN LONGAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Twitter on Friday agreed to hand over about three months' worth of tweets to a judge overseeing the criminal trial of an Occupy Wall Street protester, a case that has become a closely watched fight over how much access law

Calif. father accused of taking 2 kids speaks out

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - A California man accused of kidnapping his two children and taking them on a stolen yacht for three days said Tuesday that he knew he had "gone crazy" but never endangered them. During a jailhouse interview, Christopher Maffei told the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit