WVU president responds after two shootings near its campus
Sanders reports raising $46.5M in February; Warren got $29M
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign said Sunday that it raised more than $46.5 million in February. Fellow progressive Elizabeth Warren announced a short time later collecting a respectable $29 million last month. Sanders’ team said it was making television ad buys in nine more states. The campaign said it is “currently on the air in 12 out of the 14 states” that are voting on Super Tuesday. Sanders’ eye-popping haul follows an already impressive January that raised more than $25 million.
MORGANTOWN, W.VA. – West Virginia University President Gordon Gee released a letter Sunday emphasizing the university’s commitment to safety after two recent shootings near the Morgantown campus, one involving a fatality. Gee wrote to the community that the campus of more than 26,000 students is “concerned and unnerved” but that the shootings Friday and Saturday “remain an aberration to our life here.” Gee said the university will look into additional measures to prevent such events from happening again.
Recruiter told Oklahoma students to line up by skin color
OKLAHOMA CITY – A college recruiter was fired after high school students in Oklahoma City said he had them line up by the color of their skin and then by hair texture. Harding Charter Preparatory High School student Korey Todd told KFOR-TV that during a Feb. 24 assembly, the recruiter from Oklahoma Christian University “barely talked about the school itself.” Todd said the recruiter asked everyone to line up from “darkest to lightest skin complexion.” Todd said the recruiter didn’t “rationalize” the purpose of the activity.
Coughing pope cancels participating in Lenten retreat
VATICAN CITY – A coughing Pope Francis told pilgrims gathered for the traditional Sunday blessing that he is canceling his participation at a weeklong spiritual retreat in the Roman countryside because of a cold. It is the first time he has missed the spiritual exercises that he initiated early in his seven-year papacy to mark the start of each Lenten season. The 83-year-old pontiff, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory illness as a young man, has canceled several official engagements as he battled an apparent cold.