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  • FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2009 file photo, Boise State coach Chris Petersen, left, is greeted by Fiesta Bowl president John Junker, right, after Petersen disembarked off a charter flight at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. The Fiesta Bowl has fired its longtime CEO John Junker after a scathing internal report found "an apparent scheme" to reimburse employees for political contributions. (AP Photo/Paul Connors, File)

    Post-scandal Fiesta Bowl must justify place in BCS

    The head of the BCS put the Fiesta Bowl on notice Wednesday: "Follow the letter of the law" or lose its place in college football's lucrative championship system.


  • Sports Briefs

    The Fiesta Bowl ejected its chief executive amid corruption accusations and now faces another challenge: persuading the BCS to let it stay in the lucrative bowl system used to crown a national champion.


  • USA Today report questions academic gains in D.C. schools under Rhee

    An investigative report in USA Today this morning is questioning the academic gains of a D.C. school lauded for a dramatic increase in standardized test scores during the administration of schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee.


  • In this Nov. 23, 2010 photo, USA Today publisher Dave Hunke  is seen at the headquarters of USA Today, in McLean, Va.   (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    USA Today rewrites strategy to cope with Internet

    USA Today, a newspaper created nearly 30 years ago to appeal to people who grew up watching television, is revising its formula to try to counter the Internet's threat to its survival.


  • President Obama speaks at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, March 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

    CURL: Toil, trouble in Obama's bubble

    President Obama has got bubble trouble.


  • Gannett names David A. Payne chief digital officer

    Gannett, which publishes USA Today and other newspapers, says it has named David A. Payne as chief digital officer, replacing Christopher Saridakis, who left last spring.


  • Illustration: Tea Party

    MAINWARING: A new Reagan in town

    In 2008, candidate Barack Obama famously said: "We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. We are the hope of the future; the answer to the cynics who tell us our house must stand divided; that we cannot come together; that we cannot remake this world as it should be."


  • FILE - This file photograph taken July 14, 2010, shows Gannett headquarters in McLean, Va. Gannett Co., the country's biggest newspaper publisher, said Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, fourth-quarter earnings jumped 30 percent as political advertising lifted revenue at its television stations and costs fell. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)

    Gannett 4Q income up 30 pct; political ad boost

    Gannett Co., the country's biggest newspaper publisher, said Monday that its fourth-quarter earnings jumped 30 percent as costs fell primarily because of layoffs and as television stations got a one-time boost from political advertising.


  • "A storm of this size and scope needs to be taken seriously," says FEMA administrator Craig Fugate. (Associated Press)

    Inside the Beltway

    It helps to know that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is ever at the ready while Americans face another round of terrible snowstorms. FEMA'S on it.


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