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Dustin Norman, president of the Interfraternity Council, has been one of those unfortunate students who runs out of class just in time to watch the Washington Avenue Bridge Circulator leave.

Norman and these other students are out of luck because another bus will not be along - the last bus leaves at 4:45 p.m.

The IFC has partnered with the Panhellenic Council and the Minnesota Student Association to expand the hours of operation for the circulator.

.Cars may not have wings, but one Minneapolis man's car spent some time in the air early Friday.

Robert Ascher, 24, was drinking at The Dinkytowner Cafe on Friday morning, but ended his night in Hennepin County Jail.

Ascher left the bar headed the wrong way down Fourth Street Southeast, a one-way street, and crashed his car into the fence surrounding the TCF Bank Stadium site, University Police Deputy Chief Steve Johnson said.

Ascher was unable to make the turn from Fourth onto Oak Street Southeast because he was driving too fast.

;OXNARD, Calif. (AP) - A 15-year-old boy was shot and wounded in a junior high school computer lab Tuesday and another eighth-grader was taken into custody, authorities said.

Worried parents gathered outside the 1,150-student E.O. Green Junior High School, which was locked down. Students were released classroom by classroom.

The wounded boy had improved since arriving at St. John's Regional Medical Center in extremely serious condition, police spokesman David Keith said. "We are guardedly optimistic he will make a recovery," he said.

.LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - A U.S. Embassy official accused of asking an American student and Peace Corps volunteers to keep tabs on Venezuelans and Cubans in Bolivia will not return to the country, an embassy official confirmed Wednesday.

The announcement was made intially by Government Minister Alfredo Rada following a meeting that he and Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca had Wednesday with U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg.

The ambassador "officially communicated to us that Vincent Cooper will not return to Bolivia," Rada told reporters.

A bullet wounded a 6-year-old girl Wednesday morning on the West Bank as she waited for her school bus in the entryway to her apartment building.

The incident occurred at the Riverside Plaza apartment complex in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, according to multiple media reports.

Minneapolis police said they are investigating the incident, which occurred shortly after 8 a.m.

;NEW YORK (AP) - The official New York City condom has a different look and a sexy new slogan: New Yorkers are being encouraged to "get some" on Valentine's Day.

Street teams will be handing out the free condoms at busy hubs around the city on Thursday, including Times Square, Wall Street and near City Hall.

And an ad campaign on television, radio and subways and buses will soon begin, featuring the catch phrase.

.NEW YORK (AP) - Police hunted Wednesday for a man who entered a psychologist's office with a bag of knives and a meat cleaver, hacking her to death so savagely that blood spattered the walls and floor and the entire room was torn apart.

A colleague who responded to the victim's screams was seriously injured, and investigators were trying to determine whether the attacker was a patient at the clinic. Three knives were recovered at the scene, including a 9-inch knife and the cleaver, which was apparently bent from the attack, police said.

Charles Jensen's mental illness was misdiagnosed for 15 years, which led to him being bounced from prison to prison on felony charges.

In 2004, he was moved to a mental health facility and diagnosed with bipolar disorder with psychotic features; his troubles with the law ended there.

Jensen spoke about the importance of treating mentally ill convicts and the difficulties of reintegration into society at a rally Wednesday.

Charles Jensen's mental illness was misdiagnosed for 15 years, which led to him being bounced from prison to prison on felony charges.

In 2004, he was moved to a mental health facility and diagnosed with bipolar disorder with psychotic features; his troubles with the law ended there.

Jensen spoke about the importance of treating mentally ill convicts and the difficulties of reintegration into society at a rally Wednesday.

Last year, South African civil-rights leader Desmond Tutu was scheduled to speak at the University of St. Thomas to high school students about "turning enemies into friends." Wanting to avoid controversy from a 2002 statement Tutu made against Israeli occupation of Palestine, the St. Thomas administration revoked the invitation.

When St. Thomas political science professor Cris Toffolo registered her discontent with the administration's decision, she was dismissed as director of the Justice and Peace Studies program.