Ivy League School Janitor Graduates With Honors
Updated: 2:32 PM For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University.
Updated: 2:32 PM For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University.
Posted: 9:55 PM Yahoo swept out Scott Thompson as CEO Sunday in an effort to clean up a mess created by an exaggeration about his education that destroyed his credibility as he set out to turnaround the long-troubled Internet company.
Posted: 7:19 PM A source tells The Associated Press that JP Morgan Chase is expected to accept the resignation of a high-ranking executive soon. The decision comes after one of the bank's trading groups lost $2 billion.
Posted: 4:13 PM Don't let the hoodie and sneakers fool you. Mark Zuckerberg is no wet-behind-the-ears CEO.
Posted: 6:30 AM Tori Pinheiro shed tears and shared the sorrow of the loss of her boyfriend as Boston University students, faculty and officials gathered in a campus plaza to mourn three classmates studying abroad who died in a minivan crash in New Zealand.
Updated: 5:12 AM Kelsey Griffith graduates on Sunday from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her $120,000 in student debt, she is already working two restaurant jobs and will soon give up her apartment here to live with her parents.
Posted: 9:37 PM Boston University says the deaths of three students in a minivan crash in New Zealand are an "unprecedented tragedy," the worst to hit its study abroad program since it began in the 1980s.
Posted: 3:43 PM Mitt Romney's Mormon faith has shaped his life, but he barely mentioned it as he spoke to graduates at an evangelical Christian university Saturday.
Posted: 5:00 AM In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack Obama speak, there's disappointment that he hasn't kept his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and perceptions that he's shunting blame for the financial crisis across the Atlantic.
Posted: 10:42 PM Inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1992, Shelby worked in recent years as a technical adviser on the Ford GT project and designed the Shelby Series 1 two-seat muscle car, a 21st century clone of his 1965 Cobra.
Posted: 10:37 PM Thursday evening, an Alabama girl was discovered hanged from a tree with an old tire swing rope, deliberately, authorities say, by her 14-year-old half-brother who was charged Friday with murder.
Posted: 10:07 PM The Gallup Poll survey showed 51% of Americans approved of the president's decision to stand in support of the issue, 45 %disapproved.
Posted: 12:25 PM A federal judge has refused to toss out campaign corruption charges against John Edwards, meaning he will have to present his case before a jury.
Updated: 7:45 AM Mississippi authorities say a fugitive accused of a double-slaying and kidnapping has been killed but the two girls he fled with are safe.
Posted: 7:47 PM A gloomy outlook on the economy extends across party lines, a new Associated Press-GfK poll has found, and handling the nation's economy remains President Barack Obama's biggest challenge in his bid for a second term.
Posted: 3:35 PM Prosecutors have rested their case against John Edwards after calling to the witness stand many of his closest friends and advisers.
Posted: 6:11 AM A WITN Safety Alert for families Thursday morning: About 92,000 trampolines are being recalled.
Posted: 2:09 AM The media frenzy over Facebook's IPO has a lot of people wondering how the process works and how well it's going, even though most small investors won't be able to get in on the opening day action.
Posted: 2:05 AM Companies that provide employees with generous benefits, including contributing more to retirement funds and absorbing health insurance hikes, are often financially healthier because of it.
Posted: 2:01 AM Rep. Carolyn Maloney doesn’t want you to unwittingly fork over $35 for a cup of coffee.
Updated: 4:49 PM President Barack Obama endorsed the right of same-sex couples to marry on Wednesday, a landmark pronouncement made in light of mounting pressure from gay right advocates.
Updated: 2:43 PM Five people have been arrested as they tried to force their way into the annual shareholders' meeting for Bank of America in Charlotte.
Updated: 8:40 AM NC has become the 31st state to pass an amendment that defines marriage in the state constitution.
Updated: 9:11 PM It may not come as a surprise that Mitt Romney has won the NC GOP Presidential Primary.
Posted: 11:48 PM Rick Santorum is endorsing his one-time bitter rival Mitt Romney in a late-night e-mail to his supporters.