RENTERS SAY CALL TO POLICE WAS BASED ON RACE

YORK» Bob Marley’s NEW granddaughter says she felt like her life was put in danger when police investigating a reported burglary stopped her and three friends as they left an Airbnb rental in California.

Donisha Prendergast and her friends were leaving the home in Rialto on April 30 when a neighbor called 911 and reported strangers carrying bags out of the residence.

Police officers detained the group for 22 minutes while they contacted the homeowner.

Prendergast said at a news conference Thursday in New York that she felt she was singled out because she is black.

Interest rates on federal student loans set to rise for second year in a row.

College students will pay more to borrow money from the federal government this fall as student loan interest rates are set to rise for the second year in a row.

Interest rates on federal student loans will climb by more than half a percentage point as a result of the Treasury Department’s auction of 10-year notes Wednesday. The federal government resets rates on student loans every year based on the spring rate of the note, plus a fixed margin. New rates will take effect July 1.

Undergraduate students can expect to pay 5.04 percent in interest on new Stafford loans instead of the current 4.45 percent. Graduate students will see the interest rate on new Direct loans climb from 6 percent to 6.59 percent. And parents who take on federal debt to help their children pursue a degree can expect to pay 7.59 percent instead of 7 percent.

U.S. plans to split work for producing nuclear weapons cores.

The federal agency that oversees the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile is recommending that the production of the cores that trigger nuclear warheads be split between South Carolina and New Mexico.

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s recommendation Thursday comes as the United States looks to ramp up production of the plutonium cores to 80 per year.

At least 30 of the plutonium cores each year will be produced at Los Alamos National Laboratory — the northern New Mexico site where the atomic bomb was developed decades ago.

House approves bill to revive Nevada nuclear waste dump.

WASHINGTON»

The House on Thursday approved an electionyear bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain despite opposition from home-state lawmakers.

Supporters say the bill would help solve a nuclearwaste storage problem that has festered for more than three decades. More than 80,000 metric tons of spent fuel from commercial nuclear power plants sit idle in 121 communities across 39 states. — Denver Post wire