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  • In this March 3, 2011, photo, Purdue forward Drey Mingo, center, shoots between Indiana guards Whitney Lindsay, left, and Jori Davis during NCAA college basketball game in the Big Ten tournament in Indianapolis. Four months ago, Mingo lay unconscious on her apartment floor with an illness that gave her a 50 percent chance of survival. On Sunday, the Purdue forward will lead her team into the NCAA tournament. (AP Photo)

    Purdue's Mingo back from near-fatal illness

    Four months ago, Drey Mingo lay unconscious on her apartment floor with an illness that gave her a 50 percent chance of survival.


  • In a booking photo provided by the Dearborn, Mich., police department, Roger Stockham is shown. (Associated Press)

    Suspect in mosque bombing plot has long history of legal trouble

    A California man accused of threatening to blow up a popular Detroit-area mosque has had several violent run-ins with the law dating back to the 1970s, including one in which he kidnapped his son from a foster home and crashed a plane while trying to escape.


  • ** FILE ** Roger Stockham, a 63-year-old Southern California man, was arrested outside the Islamic Center of America in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Mich., on Monday evening, Jan. 24, 2011, and has been charged with possessing explosives and threatening terror at the mosque. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

    Mosque plot suspect planted bomb in airport in '85

    A California man accused of threatening to blow up a popular Detroit-area mosque has had several violent, unpredictable run-ins with the law dating back to the 1970s, including one in which he kidnapped his son from a foster home and crashed a plane while trying to get away.


  • This handout photo provided by Purdue University shows David Nichols in a lab at the university in West Lafayette, Ind., Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he's haunted by how his work is being hijacked by humans selling street drugs. (AP Photo/Purdue University, Mark Simons)

    Scientist haunted by misuse of drugs he invented

    David Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he's haunted by how humans hijack his work to make street drugs, sometimes causing overdose deaths.


  • These bone fragments found by researchers on Nikumaroro Island in the South Pacific could help prove that famed aviator Amelia Earhart died as a castaway after failing in her quest to circumnavigate the globe. (AP Photo/The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery)

    Bones found on island might be Amelia Earhart's

    The three bone fragments turned up on a deserted South Pacific island that lay along the course Amelia Earhart was following when she vanished. Nearby were several tantalizing artifacts: some old makeup, some glass bottles and shells that had been cut open.


  • Purdue women's player in critical condition

    Drey Mingo, a 21-year-old junior who is the second-leading scorer for Purdue, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition Wednesday with bacterial meningitis and her team canceled a holiday tournament trip to Mexico.


  • Purdue women's basketball coach Sharon Versyp answers questions about Drey Mingo, who is hospitalized with meningitis, during a news conference Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010, at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind. Purdue canceled its trip to a tournament in Mexico. (AP Photo/The Journal & Courier, Brent Drinkut)

    Purdue women's player in critical condition

    Drey Mingo, a 21-year-old junior who is the second-leading scorer for Purdue, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition Wednesday with bacterial meningitis and her team canceled a holiday tournament trip to Mexico.


  • American Richard Heck, 79, and his Filipino wife, Socorro, display some of his awards during an interview with the Associated Press at their residence at Manila's Quezon city in the Philippines shortly after the Royal Academy of Sciences announced in Sweden he won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

    American, 2 Japanese win chemistry Nobel

    An American and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for finding new ways to bond carbon atoms together, methods now widely used to make medicines and in agriculture and electronics.


  • Michigan wide receiver Martavious Odoms (9), quarterback Denard Robinson (16), and coach Rich Rodriguez, right, sing the fight song with teammates and fans after an NCAA college football game with Connecticut, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, in Ann Arbor. Michigan won 30-10. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)

    Proud powers get early test on rebuilding efforts

    Michigan-Notre Dame seems so last century now.


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