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2 former Tufts administrators admit big thefts from university

Boston Globe: 2 former Tufts administrators admit big thefts from university

Two former administrators for Tufts University have pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $1 million from the school and spending it on items such as gourmet steaks, high-end fashion, and foreign travel, Middlesex prosecutors said yesterday.

Plane Stolen From Canadian College Leads U.S. Fighter Jets on Chase

AP: Plane Stolen From Canadian College Leads U.S. Fighter Jets on Chase

Man nabbed after plane taken from Canada to Mo.

WAUSAU, Wis. – A single-engine airplane flown away from an airport in Canada by a student pilot Monday was intercepted by jet fighters over Wisconsin but kept flying south through two more states. It finally landed on a road in southeastern Missouri and the pilot was apprehended.

Utah: Women admit to UVU newspaper theft

The Salt Lake Tribune: Women admit to UVU newspaper theft

The case of the missing college newspapers is closed, mere hours before a formal investigation was set to begin.

The culprits? Two women who said they needed the papers for a youth-group project.

Brent Sumner, adviser to the weekly UVU Review at Utah Valley University, said the women came to his office Monday morning and confessed taking up to 700 copies of the March 23 edition off racks around campus late Wednesday night. He said the women, who were not UVU students, wanted the paper for a project and not to protest the paper’s content.