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Georgetown was ranked No. 4 on the list of best colleges for veterans, followed by the College of William and Mary in Virginia, which ranked No. 12. George Washington University came in at No. 24, and the University of Maryland at College Park was ranked No. 29. |
Overall, Princeton was the top-ranked U.S. university for the seventh year in a row, followed by Harvard, the University of Chicago and Yale. |
Delece Smith-Barrow said students and parents can use the rankings as a tool in the college search. |
“They should keep in mind that a number of factors go into making the decision about where to attend school, such as location, cost, course offerings, activities. So families should certainly weigh all these things and figure out … which of these have the options that best meets the needs for their student,” Smith-Barr... |
The Larimer County Sheriff's Office says the man entered Berthoud Hometown Liquor Saturday night to ask for a ride, and the female employee offered him one. |
Police say a Berthoud man kidnapped a female employee of a liquor store after he came into the store asking for a ride Saturday night. |
About 8:30 p.m., an employee of Berthoud Hometown Liquor called the Larimer County Sheriff's Office to report a female employee missing, according to a news release. |
The caller said a regular customer he recognized as 44-year-old Will McDonough of Berthoud came into the store and asked for a ride because his car was out of gas. The female employee agreed and they left, the release stated. |
Deputies later learned that McDonough convinced the woman to let him drive her car because he knew where they were going. Instead of driving to his house, McDonough drove them to the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, "despite the woman's pleas to the contrary," the release stated. |
McDonough entered the hotel and interrupted a large group gathered in the ballroom, causing several people to call Denver police. McDonough was arrested and received a municipal violation for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. |
Denver police found the woman safe and unharmed at the hotel, and McDonough did not threaten her with the weapon, according to the sheriff's office. |
On Tuesday, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office obtained a warrant for McDonough's arrest on suspicion of second-degree kidnapping. |
McDonough posted his $20,000 bond for the warrant and was released from Denver City Jail on Tuesday afternoon, according to the sheriff's office. |
The investigation is ongoing, and the sheriff's office could seek additional charges against McDonough, according to the release. Anyone with information relating to this incident can call Larimer County Sheriff’s Office investigator Drew Weber at 970-498-5172. |
Colorado court docket and records do not show any scheduled upcoming court appearances for McDonough. |
There has been extensive negative coverage of Bob Davie in the past few weeks, and I felt obligated to share my experiences. |
What follows is my personal opinion and does not represent the opinion of UNM or the Regents. |
Coach Davie brought me to Albuquerque. I came from a small high school in Mesquite, Texas. There were many opportunities for me to play college football, and I was set on going to the Naval Academy shortly before signing day. |
Coach Davie changed my mind. He came to my home and explained his vision for UNM football. His passion for the program was evident as he explained the difficult road ahead at UNM. |
That passion was contagious. Coach Davie convinced me that UNM was the place I needed to be. While at UNM, I was a four-year starter on the offensive line, a first-team academic all-American, a UNM nominee for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships, and a finalist for the Wuerffel Trophy. I will graduate in May with my J... |
In coach Davie’s program, academics took priority over practice time. I completed two years of law school while on the football team. This meant that I had to miss at least two days of practice a week, sometimes more. Coach Davie never thought twice about letting me miss practice for class. He fully supported me and un... |
My health and future also meant more to coach Davie than winning football games. I suffered many concussions during my career at UNM. My senior year, I decided to retire after my second concussion that season. I did not want to make that decision. As a competitor and athlete, I wanted to push through this setback just ... |
Now, coach Davie is not perfect. He has a quick temper and a low tolerance when things are not done properly. I have witnessed this temper, and I am not attempting to defend these qualities or actions. |
I also know that my experience is solely my own and is not representative of every player who has played for coach Davie. However, this does not change the fact that he always supported me and was there when I needed his advice. |
What I have shared is just a brief excerpt from my football days at UNM. That being said, I hope this statement will shape the dialogue about coach Davie. There has been a lot of negative press published about him lately, and I felt it was time that a different viewpoint was shared. |
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- It's no secret that San Diego has a great food scene, but America's Finest City also has some great dessert spots to explore. |
Whether you want to sit and relax in a quaint shop or take a photo of an Instagram-worthy dessert, these are some of the best places to check out in the city, according to Yelp reviewers. |
</p><p>Extraordinary Desserts has a wide variety of desserts from coffee cake to crème brûlée. |
</p><p>If you like cheerful and colorful desserts this place is for you. Boba Bar serves bubble tea, smoothies, frozen desserts and more. |
This neighborhood hangout serves sweet and savory mini pies, coffee and craft beer all in one space. |
This ice cream shop combines innovation and tradition. To do so, Cauldron Ice Cream uses liquid nitrogen to freeze their sweet treats. |
These desserts look just as good as they taste. If you’ve been searching for an Instagram-worthy treat, this may just be a spot to add to your list. |
If you’re in the mood for something a little different, this quaint shop offers Korean-style soft serve ice cream in pastry cones. SomiSomi also offers unlimited toppings. |
This French bakery serves classic pastries and light café fair. If you need another Instagram-worthy dessert, this place should definitely be on your list. |
Winger Bryan Habana crossed twice as South Africa outclassed Australia in a 32-25 bonus-point victory which tightened its grip on the Tri-Nations title. |
The unbeaten South Africans dominated the first hour and scored three unanswered tries in the first half, helped by a rash of handling errors from the Wallabies. |
Scrumhalf Fourie de Preez took a quick penalty tap in the sixth minute, catching the Australian defense off guard as he scooting 15 meters to the tryline to start the scoring. |
The Springboks led 22-3 before Australia flyhalf Matt Giteau reduced the margin to nine points with a penalty goal just before halftime and a converted try three minutes after. |
But Habana secured the bonus point and sealed the result in the 54th minute when he crossed untouched following a well worked decoy play from a scrum for the Springboks' fourth try. |
The Australians scored two tries in the last five minutes, including Lachie Turner's right on full time, to get within seven points and earn a bonus point. |
Giteau ended with 20 points from two tries, two conversions and two penalties, but missed two penalty goal attempts and a quickly taken conversion. |
The South Africans lead the Tri-Nations competition with 17 points from four wins, including two at home against the All Blacks and home-and-away wins over the Wallabies. |
The All Blacks have eight points from two wins and Australia is out of contention with just three points from four losses. |
That means the World Cup champion South Africans will win the Tri-Nations unless they lose their last two matches without picking up a bonus point and New Zealand has two bonus-point victories. |
South Africa plays Australia at Brisbane next Saturday and New Zealand at Hamilton the following week. |
Springboks coach Peter De Villiers was impressed with his lineup, which worked with a minority of possession, struggled in the scrum and conceded 15 penalties to just four from Australia. |
"Look at the character they showed," said De Villiers, who has 10 wins from his last 11 tests as coach. "A few calls didn't go their way. We were at sixes and sevens in the scrums. They had the character to stand up as a team, and to play with the scraps that we got." |
The South Africans got plenty of chances to counterattack from a mistaken-ridden Wallabies lineup which allowed 21 turnovers and made 13 handling errors. |
The Australians had the bulk of possession but had no penetration in attack in the first half and were punished by the offensive tackling from the more aggressive Springboks. |
The Wallabies also lacked cohesion. Giteau was getting slow service from Luke Burgess from phase ball and set pieces and struggling for combination with inside center Adam Ashley-Cooper, who was playing his third different position in three tests to cover for injured midfield regulars Stirling Mortlock and Berrick Barn... |
Their lack of combination led directly to South Africa's second try, when center Jaque Fourie strolled through a yawning midfield gap in the 10th minute and onto a short ball from Morne Steyn to touch down beside the posts and make it 10-0. |
South Africa's third try came directly from an Australian handling error in the 33rd minute, when winger Turner fumbled in an aerial contest for a high ball with Jean DeVilliers and Habana seized on the rebound with little defense to beat. |
The Australians looked most dangerous when Quade Cooper went on at flyhalf and allowed Giteau to move one place wider to inside center. |
Giteau, who beat four defenders after a quick tap in the 43rd minute for his first try, earned a second in the 75th when he straightened the angle of attack after Cooper dragged three defenders across field and gave him an inside ball. |
The Australians have now lost six straight Tri-Nations matches dating back to last August, putting extra pressure on coach Robbie Deans to make changes. |
Deans said the Australians showed courage to come back. |
"The boys showed at the death, we're not far away. We'll keep going," he said. "The good thing is, I guess, they're one score away. |
"When you get into this context, it would be easy to take the soft option and go belly up. (But) there's a lot of pride in this group. You'll see that next week." |
South Africa 32 (Bryan Habana 2, Fourie du Preez, Jaque Fourie tries; Morne Steyn 3 conversions, 2 penalties) def. Australia 25 (Matt Giteau 2, Lachie Turner tries; Giteau 2 penalties, 2 conversions). Half time: 22-6. |
Josh James is the 36-year-old CEO of Omniture, a Utah-based web analytics company that businesses rely on to track their users' every move and turn their data into competitive advantage. |
James dropped out of Brigham Young University to start his company in 1996. |
Correction: An earlier version of this story said that James started Omniture in 1989. He started it in 1996. |
For the longest time, conservatives were content to sit around and kvetch about the state of the culture, complaining about the ascendancy of Michael Moore and the double standards of the mainstream media when it came to documenting the foibles of the political parties. |
With this week’s bombshell release of a series of videos implicating employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - ACORN, for short - in a willingness to engage in criminal activities, it has become apparent that those on the right are learning to play the game just as fiercely - and effectiv... |
James O’Keefe is the brains behind VeritasVisuals.com, described as a “collection of satirical short films on newsworthy topics.” He and his partner in crime, Hannah Giles, came up with a plan that transcended satire and exposed the seamy underbelly of the community-organizing racket: What would happen if the two of th... |
In video after shocking video, Mr. O’Keefe and Miss Giles hopscotched across America, persuading ACORN employees to aid them in their scheme to import underage girls into the country with the intent of turning them into prostitutes and funneling the profits into a political campaign. They found employees in Baltimore, ... |
Outrage was immediate and almost unanimous. ACORN higher-ups fired several of the workers on the assumption that the first video was a one-off occurrence; once they realized the full extent of their problem, they went into damage-control mode, claiming the tapes had been made illegally. |
The Census Bureau severed all ties with the outfit; the Senate voted 83-7 to cut off federal funding for the group; the House of Representatives moved toward taking the same step. As outrage grew and pressure on the group mounted, ACORN caved: On Wednesday, it announced it was suspending operations and implementing new... |
The videos were stunning pieces of citizen journalism: effective, simple and elegant. |
Add to that list: almost entirely ignored by the mainstream media. |
With the exception of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and this newspaper, the media elites almost entirely ignored the story. The New York Times didn’t publish its first staff-written story until Wednesday, almost a week after the initial video was posted on the Internet. The Washington Post was just as negligent. |
The silence was somewhat shocking: ACORN, after all, had been tied to President Obama, and it was starting to gain real influence in the federal government. There already had been calls for a federal investigation into allegations of voter fraud by the group during the last election. |
Certainly this was a story worth reporting, right? |
Mr. Maloney went into action, making the movie “Indoctrinate U,” a blistering look at the problems he perceived on America’s college campuses. |
Or consider Jake Rademacher. Aggravated by the media coverage of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and curious to learn more about his brothers’ motivation for joining the military, Mr. Rademacher made “Brothers at War,” the single best documentary about the fighting men and women who constitute the post-Sept. 11 mili... |
Then there’s Stuart Browning, who realized that the next great public battle was going to be over public health care; he put together a series of videos called “Free Market Cure” and put them on YouTube and at his own site in order to counter the distortions he saw emanating unchallenged from his opponents. His “Uninsu... |
The democratization of film production - the relative affordability of new equipment and editing software - enabled these filmmakers to burst onto the scene without the backing of major studios or journalistic outlets. |
Sure, these artists all had help in their struggle: Mr. Maloney and Mr. Browning both received technical support through the Moving Picture Institute, while Mr. Rademacher found allies in Jon Voight and Gary Sinise, both staunch allies of the U.S. military. And Mr. O’Keefe has certainly received a publicity boost throu... |
But their ideas and their drive to see their vision realized are what motivated them and inspired them to impact the debate. These men are the vanguard of a new front in the battle of ideas: They have realized that the time for whining is over; the time for doing has arrived. |
A Pinetop-Lakeside officer was brought to the Valley for treatment after being injured in a deadly shooting overnight. |
According to Pinetop police, officers were called to a Lakeside home around 10 p.m. Sunday night to do a welfare check. A Tucson woman called police, worried that her son, Glenn Southwood Jr., was intoxicated and had threatened to shoot his wife. |
Officers responding to the home found Southwood with a firearm who then began firing at officers. Officers returned fire and Southwood barricaded himself inside the home. |
One of the officers was hit by the suspect's gunfire above the knee. He was cared for on-scene by fellow officers and concerned citizens before he was flown to a Phoenix-area hospital. |
Tactical teams were called to the home to try to make contact with Southwood. Around 3 a.m. Monday, police deployed a K-9 officer into the home. The K-9 was attacked by a pit bull and the pit bull was then killed. |
Southwood was later found dead on a side porch of the home. |
Police say the injured officer is out of surgery and is expected to make a full recovery. The injured K-9 officer is being treated at a veterinarian. |
Will there be an end to 67 years of hostility between North Korea and the world? |
A peaceful Korean peninsula is a big plus in the security matrix of Asia. An end to 67 years of hostility between North Korea on the one side and the US-Japan-South Korea troika on the other will provide a big boost to peace in the region. The first-ever summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean supreme... |
Sceptics notwithstanding, drawing up an agreed text that outlines a roadmap for ridding the Korean peninsula of nuclear arms and arsenal is a huge achievement. Denuclearising the Korean Peninsula does not mean merely destroying 10 nuclear bombs that North Korea developed with 50 tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium or dis... |
There is inevitably a hype surrounding the meeting. But many specialists on North Korean affairs have struck a cautionary note. According to them, the summit could at best be a starting point for denuclearisation of the region and troops withdrawal by the US. Differing perceptions on denuclearising the region implies i... |
There is an understanding within diplomatic circles that the Trump-Kim joint statement does not go much beyond what was already agreed upon at an April meeting between the two Korean leaders who met at the common border. Chinese president Xi Jingping’s invisible hand seems to have quietly steered Kim to the negotiating... |
What stands out glaringly in the agreement is that no timelines have been set for lifting political, economic and diplomatic sanctions against North Korea. Even though China had pushed to get the sanctions lifted immediately after the Trump-Kim summit, this may not happen in a hurry. In fact, sanctions on Pyongyang got... |
David Shillingford of the Shelter Island Cricket Club demonstrates the straight-armed throw of the game for columnist Ralph Gardner Jr. The club's annual match is Saturday. |
The vast and unbridgeable gulf between two peoples, even those with a common language, can be summed up in one word: cricket. |
I've never understood the sport. I find it impenetrable. No matter how much I've watched it. Not that I've watched that much. |
I think part of the problem is I'm a chauvinist: U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! |
Cricket bears a passing resemblance to baseball but, to an outsider, appears to lack the machismo. In baseball, the pitcher bends his arm at the elbow, whipping the ball at maximum velocity. In cricket, the ball is thrown with the arm straight, which looks vaguely girlish. |
Also in cricket, as I understand it, points are scored and accolades earned just as easily by hitting the ball along the ground. In baseball, poetry is made when the projectile takes flight and travels as far as possible. |
You've probably already deduced—especially if cricket is your sport—that I have no idea what I'm talking about. Which is why I made my way to Shelter Island last week for a cricket lesson ahead of the Shelter Island Cricket Club's third annual match on Saturday. The game is a fundraiser for the Shelter Island Ambulance... |
Two Brits—David Shillingford, in risk management, and Frank Emmett, a Shelter Island schoolteacher—had agreed to provide a tutorial. |
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